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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Schools Matter: Tenn. Teachers: Don't Quit--Occupy Your Schools and Force Huffman Out

Schools Matter: Tenn. Teachers: Don't Quit--Occupy Your Schools and Force Huffman Out:

Tenn. Teachers: Don't Quit--Occupy Your Schools and Force Huffman Out

High-Stakes Testing's Wizard, Bill Sanders, recently returned to Nashville from his cushy offices on the cushy SAS campus in NC to oversee the creation of a new and irredeemably-flawed teacher evaluation scheme based on student test scores and observations aimed to reward penal teaching methods. Hey--$500,000,000 in Gates-designed RTTT dough is a big lure. Welcome home, Bill!

While trying to strike before the parents and teachers figure out what the hell is going on, the Oligarchs' pol-puppets Haslam/Bredesen, Bill Sanders, and a dependable band of proto-fascist henchmen led by former TFA cult leader, Kevin Huffman, are beside themselves with reckless glee as they go about crafting an eval scheme that will chase away the best TN teachers, while making those who remain kowtow to the total compliance chain