What the *#&@? … “Teacher evaluation panel moves its work behind closed doors” - Wait, What?

What the *#&@? … “Teacher evaluation panel moves its work behind closed doors” - Wait, What?:

What the *#&@? … “Teacher evaluation panel moves its work behind closed doors”

by jonpelto

 “A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. A people who mean to be their own governor must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”  — James Madison

Hello…..is there anyone home?

What was that about the whole “still revolutionary” thing?

 

From yesterday afternoon’s CT Mirror:  Teacher evaluation panel moves its work behind closed doors, we learn that;     

“After a contentious public meeting last week on developing a new teacher and principal evaluation system, the state Department of Education has closed its meetings on the topic to the public and the media.

Instead, a series of private “working group” meetings is scheduled to take place in the weeks before the panel’s June 30 deadline to create a model process on evaluation under the new education reform law. The next public meeting is not until June 21, nine days