My letter to Bloomberg re parents' right to know performance evaluations of top Tweed officials
The Legislature passed the Governor’s bill on disclosure of teacher evaluations yesterday. No matter that the evaluations, based primarily on test scores, are unfair, unreliable, erratic and have up to a 85 point error rate. No matter that the legislation will allow parents to call or email to find out the rating of their child’s teacher. No matter that the ratings of all teachers at public schools will be published, by school, grade and subject, making it all-too-easy for parents to gossip and trade information about which teacher got which (totally unreliable) score.
No matter that for some reason, in our electeds’ continuing , and unaccountable deference to charter schools, they will remain free of any damaging and morale-busting disclosures.
Still Bloomberg went ballistic because not every teacher’s name will be published in the newspaper, and says he will have every school call every single parent with children in grades 4-