NYC Educator: Will Union Help You When You Sue Over a Bad Evaluation?

NYC Educator: Will Union Help You When You Sue Over a Bad Evaluation?:

Will Union Help You When You Sue Over a Bad Evaluation?

by NYC Educator

Teacher Ken has a great piece about the awful Florida evaluation system. Apparently, a teacher of the year was rated unsatisfactory. One more rating like that and she'll be putting on a Mickey Mouse costume for 8 bucks an hour. And the NEA, as well as the Florida Education Association, are parties in a lawsuit with 7 teachers. Apparently, they're all great teachers, hooked by the VAM monster.

Value-added comes to NYC next year. If the intrepid UFT leadership can't come to an agreement on a junk science system with Mayor Bloomberg and his minions, reformy John King will get to impose one on us. Will it be awful? Or will it be even worse than awful? Well, with Common Core coming down the pike and the expectation of 30% lower grades, it could even be worse than that.

Now of course teachers receiving bad ratings for no good reason could sue in NY too. However, given that the