Autopsy of the failed teacher evaluation deal
In all the conflicting accounts between the city and the UFT about the collapse of the teacher evaluation plan, there is one clear point of agreement: the Mayor refused to accept a two year sunset for the deal. In this, he was deeply wrongheaded for disallowing the city to pilot what is essentially an experiment that could go hideously wrong, for both teachers and children. Meanwhile, 90 percent of the districts in the rest of the state, appropriately, have a one year sunseton their teacher evaluation systems. As I commented on theSchoolbook site, this insistence that the plan should be set in stone, with no sunset, shows Bloomberg as an arrogant wannabe Mayor-for-life.
- On the UFT site, Edwize, Leo Casey posts what appears to be a DOE document, showing that the two year sunset had been accepted by the DOE before Mayor blew the deal out of the water. This evidence further contradicts the mayor, who has claimed that it was the UFT that tried to slip the sunset in at the last minute. His claim is also inconsistent with what Ernie Logan has stated, that the DOE had agreed to an even shorter sunset of one year with the principals union, before Bloomberg blew up their evaluation deal as well.
- Casey also reveals that towards the end, DOE tried to change “numerous scoring tables and conversion