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Friday, March 2, 2012

Tweak. « Fred Klonsky

Tweak. « Fred Klonsky:

Tweak.

Fred

When I was starting out, it seemed like all the principals were wizened career veterans. Now that I’m a wizened career veteran, it seems like there’s a whole generation of 5-year teachers running schools.

I was telling one of our local activists that last year, at a local principal candidate forum, one of the candidates said in response to a question, “Well, we’ll have to tweak the metrics around that and see what we come up with.” My colleague said that he had heard another principal candidate say basically the same thing in a different interview. Tweak the metrics.

Talk about a vapid, oddly disturbing phrase. Naturally, the metric-tweaker got the job up here in


Cinda. Rub that sleep from your eyes.

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Back on February 24th we reported on the Governor’s plan to cut state funding for TRIP, the retiree health