Why The UFT Will Never Go Back On The Teacher Evaluation System Sell-Out
Norm Scott posted the following:
This came in an email as a suggestion for MORE to take up the cause and I think it should. But I wonder if the UFT which supports and vehemently defends the new evaluation system will be calling for a waiver.
It is now possible for states to request a waiver from teacher evaluations for the upcoming school year. Randi Weingarten and the AFT (parent body of the UFT) has asked for it and, in an astonishing about-face, Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education and the person responsible for tying federal funding to
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