Schools Matter: When Bribes Don't Buy Buy-In, New York Ed Commish Tries the Extortion Route

Schools Matter: When Bribes Don't Buy Buy-In, New York Ed Commish Tries the Extortion Route:

When Bribes Don't Buy Buy-In, New York Ed Commish Tries the Extortion Route

by Jim Horn

From the NY Times, by Fernanda Santos:

New York State’s education commissioner threatened on Tuesday to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal grants to struggling schools in New York City and nine other districts statewide if they do not prove by Saturday that they will carry out new evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

Officials and union leaders in each district must first agree on the details of the evaluation systems, like how much weight students’ standardized test scores will have on the annual ratings