Polis Joke
Jared Polis is a Democratic Colorado Congressman. He recently had this interchange with Randi Weingarten on Twitter about Diane Ravitch.
Though this caused a backlash, he seems to be standing by his comment. This ordeal has been well documented by Jersey Jazzman
and Jonathan Pelto.
and Jonathan Pelto.Polis is a charter school supporter and has opened a few of his own charter schools, three in Colorado. Of those three schools, called the New America Schools, two are located in counties just outside of Denver and one is near Vail. Colorado is one of the states that has been most aggressive about tying standardized test scores to teacher evaluations and to school rankings. They have developed something called The Colorado Growth Model, which is a way of comparing how schools with similar achievement levels have progressed from one year to the next. So a school can have high test scores, but low growth and, conversely, there can be a