Administrators Host Long Island Iced Tea Party?: PRINCIPALS REBEL AGAINST VALUE-ADDED EVALUATION
By Valerie Strauss. Washington Post | http://wapo.st/twfkoP 11/3/2011| updated 11/9/2011 - Scores of public school principals in New York are fighting the state’s new educator evaluation system, which ties the evaluations and pay of teachers and principals to how well students do on standardized tests. New York has a new law requiring that 20 percent to 40 percent of the evaluations be linked
THIS “CHOICE” WAS NOT A GOOD CHOICE
by School Boardmember Tamar Galatzan in the Galatzan Gazette | http://bit.ly/uyHS8v Monday, November 7, 2011 at 5:02PM - On November 1, LAUSD launched a new program to fill out 2012-2013 magnet applications on-line. To my great frustration, just days into the application process, major glitches plague the system. Traditionally the application, known as the Choices brochure, is mailed out to