Seven Questions for Chris Cerf
Acting Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf has a new op-ed out today extolling the virtues of a pilot program to track teacher evaluations. May I ask a few questions?
1) When will you run a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis of this program? It seems to me that is a critical step in determining whether or not this will be a success. For that matter, where is the cost/benefit analysis of the entire state testing regime - including local district costs?
2) How will you have time to run this analysis if you are "launching a statewide initiative in 2012"? The NJASK scores that will inevitably be used for this pilot aren't released until well into the next school year - probably January of 2013, if history serves as a guide. Yet your schedule would mean implementing the
1) When will you run a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis of this program? It seems to me that is a critical step in determining whether or not this will be a success. For that matter, where is the cost/benefit analysis of the entire state testing regime - including local district costs?
2) How will you have time to run this analysis if you are "launching a statewide initiative in 2012"? The NJASK scores that will inevitably be used for this pilot aren't released until well into the next school year - probably January of 2013, if history serves as a guide. Yet your schedule would mean implementing the