NYC Public School Parents: There’s no accountability for anyone at the top at DOE; and I can prove it

NYC Public School Parents: There’s no accountability for anyone at the top at DOE; and I can prove it:

There’s no accountability for anyone at the top at DOE; and I can prove it

by Leonie Haimson

The testing companies Pearson and McGraw Hill can screw up over and over again – and  continue to get  multi- million dollar contracts.  Principals rarely  get fired,  and even those caught cheating are appointed “achievement coaches.”   
Yet teachers and children are threatened with the most severe sanctions – including losing their jobs or being held back – if their performance does not improve fast enough for the educrats at Tweed.  

Almost two years ago, in February 2012, NYC DOE provided their crude and unreliable evaluations of teachers based on test scores, with teachers identified by name -- called the teacher data reports -- to the press, though they originally had promised never to release them.  All the daily papers promptly published them.  Klein claimed he had no choice because they had been FOILed – though it was well known that he had asked reporters to file these requests. 
 

So in February 2012 – about 16 months ago – shortly after the DOE released the TDR’s, I FOILed for the performance evaluations of the Chancellor and the other top officials in the leadership team at Tweed for 2009,