Evaluations Based on Test Scores Goes to Court in Florida
Take heart, teachers. Be brave. Emulate your colleagues in Florida. Go to Court! By the way, Randi and Dennis, you could be using some of those high-priced AFT/NEA lawyers who protect your 400 thousand dollar benefit packages to help these teachers bring this craziness to a halt.
See teacher below who won Teacher of the Year holding up her "unsatisfactory" sign.
Story by Valerie Strauss:
See teacher below who won Teacher of the Year holding up her "unsatisfactory" sign.
Story by Valerie Strauss:
Teacher Kim Cook (By Brian Kuger)
A group of teachers and their unions are filing a lawsuit against Florida officials that challenges the state’s educator evaluation system, under which many teachers are evaluated on the standardized test scores of students they do not teach.
The seven teachers filing the lawsuit include Kim Cook, who, as this post explains, was evaluated at Irby Elementary, a K-2 school where she works and was named Teacher of