Jersey Jazzman: NJ Teacher Evaluation Disaster: Here Come the Lawsuits!

Jersey Jazzman: NJ Teacher Evaluation Disaster: Here Come the Lawsuits!:

NJ Teacher Evaluation Disaster: Here Come the Lawsuits!

by Duke

I originally posted this piece on October 11, 2011. Given the disaster that is about to befall us with the Cerf proposals for teacher evaluation changes in New Jersey, I think I was quite prophetic. OK, I got the "Vice-President Christie" part wrong, but maybe I was just a little early...

TRENTON, NJ -- December 10, 2016

In a stunning blow to the crumbling education "reform" movement, the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that abolished the state's system of using standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.

The court ordered the 546 teachers dismissed in June of 2014 to be reinstated with full back pay in addition to compensatory damages. The teachers had been judged to be "ineffective" under the state's system, and had lost tenure rights before they were dismissed.

The unanimous decision states: "Rarely has this court seen a plan - governmental or otherwise -