Deformers Want To Argue Students' Civil Rights Are Violated If Teachers Aren't Eligible For Merit Pay
Let's say some deformers file a lawsuit here in New York State against teacher tenure and seniority rules sometime soon.The laws in New York are a lot different than they are in California, so they'll have to adjust the thrust of the suit.From this Jessica Bakeman article in Capital NY, you can see how the deformers are not only dreaming big, they're dreaming too big:New York and California’s teac
Governor Cuomo Blames NYSED Commissioner John King And Regents Chancellor Tisch For Common Core Mess
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal pulled his state out of both the PARCC tests and the Common Core today.Here in NY State, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo still loves the Common Core, but put the blame for the problems associated with the implementation squarely at the feet of NYSED Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents:Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted teacher evaluation adjustments remain a top priori
Eva Moskowitz - Success Through Attrition
Juan Gonzalez the Daily News: There was Eva Moskowitz, head of this city’s fastest-growing and most controversial charter school network, giving a fiery commencement speech Friday morning at the first graduation of her chain’s flagship school, Harlem Success Academy 1. “As the founding parents of the founding school, you have made history,” she told the audience of beaming eighth-graders in their
Cuomo's "Fix" For APPR Teacher Evaluation Is No Fix At All
Under Cuomo's reported "fix" for his APPR teacher evaluation system that holds teachers accountable for tests that don't count for students, teachers will still receive low ratings - there will just be a "safety net" on the forced firings:Under a proposal that Gov. Cuomo is supporting in the legislature, the state would generate two scores for low-rated teachers and principals
Obama Administration: NY Must Use Tests That Don't Count For Students To Evaluate And Fire Teachers
No other way to read this:A federal education official warned Tuesday that if New York delays using student test scores as part of teacher evaluations this year, the state risks losing up to $292 million of a grant tied to making these reviews more rigorous.Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers have been meeting in recent days to find a way to postpone linking test scores to teacher ratings due to wides
6-17-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: How Many Abusive And/Or Insane Principals Are Out There?A good point raised by James Eterno over at IceUFT blog in response to this Daily News story about hundreds of students, parents and teachers demanding the removal of a Bryant High School principal who is said to have doctored performance records of teachers, altered grading policies at the school to increase the gradua