Citing errors in teacher scores, UFT seeks to halt city's public release of information
Monday, December 20th 2010, 4:00 AM
The city's controversial teacher grading system gives Pamela Flanagan the lowest possible grade - a zero - for her performance as an English instructor.
The only problem? Flanagan is a sixth-grade math and science teacher at Tompkins Square Middle School in the East Village. She has never taught English in her five years there.
Flanagan's grade is one of more than 200 errors the teachers union says it found in the city Education Department's rating of 12,000 public school instructors and one of the reasons it's fighting to keep the grades under wraps.
Flanagan, 33, said it was the fear of headlines like "City's Worst Teacher" that made her come forward.
"I believe that parents have a right to know what's going on in the classroom," she said.
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