At least our union rights weren’t pimped cheap.
I guess I owe Audrey Soglin, the IEA Executive Director and retired ex-president Ken Swanson an apology.
For several years I have ridden them kind of hard for selling out our union rights and getting nothing in return.
In order to qualify for Race to the Top money several years ago, Audrey was appointed by the governor to head the committee that drafted legislation that tied individual teacher evaluation to measures of student growth performance. Most figure that measure will be one or several standardized tests. Even now nobody, including Audrey, can say much more than that. Local Associations and local school boards are still pretty much in the dark about how this will work.
Our local Association team of negotiators recently met with Soglin, and she couldn’t tell them much.
At the time that the legislation was passed by the Illinois General Assembly it was to qualify Illinois for about
