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Schools Matter: Massachusetts Teachers Should Repudiate Union Prostisuit, Paul Toner

Schools Matter: Massachusetts Teachers Should Repudiate Union Prostisuit, Paul Toner

Massachusetts Teachers Should Repudiate Union Prostisuit, Paul Toner

MTA president, Paul Toner, is trying to buy his way to the front row of the Oligarchs' feeding trough. The deal to introduce an unscientific and pedagogcally-brain dead test score tied teacher evaluation scheme represents a betrayal of teacher, student, and parent interests for the benefit of Toner's own career aspirations.

Massachusetts teachers should send Toner and other union prostisuits a clear message by voting down the corporate approved plan. From SouthCoastToday.com:
By BRUCE C. DITATA
Bruce C. Ditata lives in Wareham.
December 30, 2010 12:00 AM
The first thing a union leader must remember is to protect members from injustice. It is, apparently, the first thing Paul Toner, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, forgot.

At flashpoint is Toner's position — the rank and file have not voted on it — that using test scores from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is a legitimate measure of a