The specter of the orange shirt.
Back in 2010 I was standing at the microphone at the IEA RA waiting for Executive Director Audrey Soglin to finish her report on PERA, the law that ties teacher evaluations to student growth scores on tests never designed for teacher evaluation.
The IEA was instrumental in writing the PERA law, which later became the basis for Senate Bill 7.
You know the story: I stood at the mic while then-President Ken Swanson called on everyone else but me. He later claimed he didn’t see me.
So that night I stopped at Target and bought the ugliest orange sweater I could find and wore it to the RA the