Schools Matter: Rhee's Testing Factories Going on Overtime This Fall

Schools Matter: Rhee's Testing Factories Going on Overtime This Fall

Rhee's Testing Factories Going on Overtime This Fall

by Jim Horn

Despite the fact that the scientific community has been waving a red flag for months now about the use of test scores based on growth models to hire and fire teachers, Rhee and her posse of brazen and ignorant corporatists are hellbent to use tests to evaluate all forms of teaching, whether math, art, or PE. With non-stop testing coming this fall, Rhee has recruited a data chief who does not know the difference between testing and teaching. Soon no one else will, either. From Bill Turque:

. . . .The new performance pay system included in the recently ratified teachers' contract begins in the fall and also relies in part on test scores, with the biggest bonuses available to teachers who can show growth in student achievement.

Some parents and teachers say that the fixation on tests is sucking the oxygen from basic

Charter School CEO, Joel Pourier, Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.4 Million

by Jim Horn

No oversight, no problem.

Another orange jumpsuit is reserved for the former Executive Director and Head Thief of Heart of the Earth Charter School:

MINNEAPOLIS--Heart of the Earth charter school had little chance