Thursday, October 21, 2010

UFT seeks temporary restraining order against release of Teacher Data Reports � JD2718

UFT seeks temporary restraining order against release of Teacher Data Reports � JD2718

UFT seeks temporary restraining order against release of Teacher Data Reports

A bunch of media, papers and at least one TV station, sued to get individual Teacher Data Reports released, and the DoE is planning to hand the stuff over. The UFT will be in court today looking for a temporary restraining order.

At last night’s Delegate Assembly this was the biggest order of business, getting delegates to support a resolution that says we will support members, we’ll try to keep the reports from coming out, etc, etc. It was a fine resolution, which I supported. There was an irrelevant amendment, which was defeated with maybe less than a dozen votes. And now we want to block the release, and we want to find mistakes in the reports that will