With Friends Like These—NEA Adopts Kapo Evaluation System For Teachers
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| Your New Evaluator or Your New Job? (Image from Flickr, Senor Codo) |
The National Education Association (NEA) has released a plan that would do away with tenure and seniority, according to an article in the Washington TimesBottom of Form. Under the new plan launched by the nation’s largest labor union, performance, not seniority, would become the primary factor determining whether teachers keep their jobs.
The new plan veers dramatically from the union’s traditional stance, which was to defend seniority and tenure. Madaline Fennell, the chair of the NEA’s Commission on Effective
