In the know: LAUSD TEACHER EVALUATIONS
EDITORIAL IN THE UCLA DAILY BRUIN BY GINA KASS | HTTP://BIT.LY/VUB57K
December 5, 2011, 12:07 am :: The Los Angeles teachers’ union and the Los Angeles Unified School District are currently in dispute over a proposed new method of teacher evaluation which takes into account standardized test scores. This began after a legal challenge posed by the teachers’ union was dropped.
The two groups have arrived at a temporary truce, agreeing that changes need to be implemented to the current system but disagreeing on what that entails, according to the Los Angeles Times.
This comes in the wake of a New York state controversy over new teacher evaluations, which caused a “principal’s revolt,” in which more than
