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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

NYC Public School Parents: UPDATE: No performance evaluations for any Chancellor or top administrator at Tweed since Bloomberg took office

NYC Public School Parents: UPDATE: No performance evaluations for any Chancellor or top administrator at Tweed since Bloomberg took office:

UPDATE: No performance evaluations for any Chancellor or top administrators at Tweed since Bloomberg took office


UPDATE: Lisa Fleisher of the Wall Street Journal FOILed for the job evaluations of the top leadership at Tweed after I did – but smartly, she asked for all the evaluations back to 2001, when Bloomberg took office.  

Guess what?  There are none.  She also shows how this is sharp departure from pre-Bloomberg days and the way things are done in other school districts.  Walcott explains the disparity from the strict accountability demanded of teachers:

"They're in front of the classroom and teaching our children, and we need to have a sense of how well