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| The view from the IEA Retired section in the back of the hall at the first Illinois caucus session yesterday. |
NEA RA. Toxic testing.
This morning the Illinois caucus voted on the NEA Board of Directors’ New Business Item A. It posted it in full down below. I went to the microphone and took an orange card. I had a question. “If the RA passes NBI A, what impact will it have on Illinois where we have PERA and the teaching evaluation component of Senate Bill 7, which uses student test scores to evaluate teachers? It was, of course
NEA RA. NBI A. Toxic testing.
New Business A will be presented to the RA Thursday. NEW BUSINESS ITEM A NEA CAMPAIGN AGAINST TOXIC TESTING NEA will conduct a comprehensive campaign to end the high stakes use of standardized tests, to sharply reduce the amount of student and instructional time consumed by tests, and to implement more effective forms of assessment and accountability. As part of this comprehensive campaign, NEA
NEA RA. Toxic Testing and building a firewall around Common Core.
The view from the IEA Retired section in the back of the hall at the first Illinois caucus session yesterday. The NEA RA opens later today at the green Colorado Convention Center. Illinois had its first caucus meeting yesterday afternoon and will have another at 7AM this morning. Yesterday NEA Board of Director from Illinois, Jim Grimes, told us that the leadership would present two New Business
7-1-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: The men on the bench. We need more than a tepid response and a “glad it wasn’t worse.”Things start slowly here in Denver. Following our three-day pre-conference yesterday was a day off for retirees – except for those who joined student members in the annual Outreach to Teach program. They headed over