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A VAM Shame, again, from Florida |

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A VAM Shame, again, from Florida





 Another teacher from Florida wrote a blog post for Diane Ravitch, and I just came across it and am re-posting it here. Be sure to give it a good read as you will see that what is happening in her state right now and why it is a VAM shame!

She writes:
I conducted a very unscientific study and concluded that I might possibly have the worst VAM score at my school. Today I conducted a slightly more scientific analysis and now I can confidently proclaim myself to be the worst teacher at my school, the 14th worst teacher in Dade County, and the 146th worst (out of 120,000) in the state of Florida! There were 4,800 pages of teachers ranked highest to lowest on the Florida Times Union website and my VAM was on page 4,795. Gosh damn! That’s a bad VAM!  I always feared I might end up at the low end of the spectrum due to the fact that I teach gifted students that score high already and have no room to grow, but 146th out of 120,000?!?! That’s not “needs improvement.” That’s “you really stink and should immediately have your teaching license revoked before you do anymore harm to innocent children” bad. That’s, “your odds are so bad you better hope you don’t get eaten by a shark or struck by lightening” bad.  This is the reason I don’t play the lotto or gamble in Vegas. And to think some other Florida teacher had the nerve to write a blog post declaring herself to be one of the worst teachers in the state and her VAM was only -3%! Negative 3 percent is the best you got honey? I’ll meet your negative 3 percent and raise you another negative 146 percentage points! (Actually I enjoyed her blog post [see also our coverage of this teacher's story here] and I 
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Missouri Senator Excoriates Gates Funded Fordham Institute Witness on Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog

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Fordham witness needs to be reminded by Missouri Senator how much Gates Foundation gave Fordham for its Common Core support.

The Missouri Torch provides video of Michael Brickman’s testimony in Missouri yesterday in support of Common Core.  Bless Mr. Brickman’s heart, he cares so much about us in Missouri, he came to testify to help us save Common Core standards so we won’t have the worst educational results in the United States:
Sen. Brian Nieves will be missed in the Senate. This pit bull couldn’t understand why Michael Brickman would get on a plane and fly from Washington, DC to Jefferson City, Missouri to  Missouri Senator Excoriates Gates Funded Fordham Institute Witness on Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog:
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Teacher job protections attacked, defended in landmark trial’s closing arguments | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC

Teacher job protections attacked, defended in landmark trial’s closing arguments | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC:



Teacher job protections attacked, defended in landmark trial’s closing arguments

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Vergara Trial

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Plaintiff Elizabeth Vergara speaks during a lunch break news conference during the closing arguments of the trial in Los Angeles.
The closing arguments of the Vergara vs. California trial on Thursday painted two vastly different pictures of whether students are harmed by the job protections enjoyed by public school teachers.
“The statutes have a real and appreciable impact on the exercise of a fundamental right. And here that fundamental right is an equal shot at an education that will prepare one for life,” lawyer Ted Boutrous said to Judge Rolf Treu.
Boutrous is one of the lawyers representing nine California public school students who alleged in the lawsuit that led to the trial that their exposure to ineffective teachers denied them the state’s guarantee of an adequate education.
Boutrous reminded Judge Treu that his side questioned 30 witnesses over two months, including public school superintendents, teachers, parents, researchers and the student plaintiffs. Testimony showed, Boutrous said, that bad teachers aren’t fired early in their careers because the state’s seniority-based layoffs allow them to stay on the job. The granting of tenure and a complicated, costly firing process also keep bad teachers on the job, he said.  Boutrous played a video of witness Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist.
“Having a highly effective teacher significantly improves children’s outcomes and having a highly ineffective teacher conversely does substantial harm,” Chetty said in 
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Weeks of Testimony Demonstrate Empty Premises of ‘Vergara v. State of California’ Suit as Closing Arguments Wrap Up Trial - California Teachers Association

Weeks of Testimony Demonstrate Empty Premises of ‘Vergara v. State of California’ Suit as Closing Arguments Wrap Up Trial - California Teachers Association:



Weeks of Testimony Demonstrate Empty Premises of ‘Vergara v. State of California’ Suit as Closing Arguments Wrap Up Trial

For CFT: Fred Glass 510-579-3343
For CTA: Frank Wells 562-708-5425

Students stand to win or lose based on Judge’s decision


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LOS ANGELES — Arguments in the misguided, two-month-long Vergara v. State of California trial challenging due process rights for teachers will come to a close today. Educators and attorneys speaking at a morning news conference in front of the Los Angeles Superior Court said that the costly trial clearly showed that these laws provide important support not simply for teachers, but for students and quality public education. They also told reporters that the premises of the lawsuit were false, and the plaintiffs had utterly failed to make a convincing case.
Speakers at the press conference included Jim Finberg, attorney for CFT and CTA; Joshua Pechthalt, California Federation of Teachers President; Dean E. Vogel, California Teachers Association President; Gloria Martinez, a special education and National Board Certified teacher at Rowan Avenue Elementary in Los Angeles Unified School District; Erika Jones, a kindergarten teacher at Angeles Mesa Elementary in LAUSD; Casey Carlson, a special education high school teacher from Santa Cruz Unified School District; and Jeff Seymour, former superintendent of the El Monte City School District, and a defense witness in the trial.
Jim Finberg, attorney for CFT and CTA, said, “The evidence has established that the tenure, dismissal, and reverse seniority layoff provisions serve important interests. They help school districts recruit and retain qualified teachers, which is critical to student learning. Plaintiffs present a false dichotomy. They assert that one has to choose between teacher rights and student learning. In fact, the interests of 
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James Baldwin said it best: 

"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."


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Researchers: One out of every 68 U.S. children has autism | The Raw Story
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Media blocked from public 'strong mayor' forum - City Beat - The Sacramento Bee
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solidaridad: Mother, Teacher, Coach. Sounds like the perfect candidate to steward our LAUSD school board
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Creole food and courage: come to the Parents 4 Teachers fundraiser 4-9-14 Parents United for Responsible Education
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Teacher Describes How She Has Been Warned by School District Not to Speak Out Against Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog
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Another year scraping together bare essentials | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
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Change the Stakes | Because a Good Education Can’t Be Measured By a Test Score
Change the Stakes | Because a Good Education Can’t Be Measured By a Test Score: REFUSE THE TESTS!Number of NYC Parents Refusing State Tests Expected to Triple in 2014What began two years ago as a small pocket of resistance has burgeoned into a full-blown protest movement: public school parents are demanding an end to the excessive use of standardized tests and top-down, corporate-backed reforms.  
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3-27-14 The Whole Child Blog — The Grand Unifying Theory of Education — Whole Child Education
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Where will the Progressive Democrats Stand? tomhayden com - The Peace Exchange Bulletin
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New York City Parents Union Statement On City Schools Being The Most Segregated In The Country: “We Must End Education Apartheid In New York City”
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Prescribed Format for 2014-15 Proposed BD - Correspondence (CA Dept of Education)
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Helen Gym among 10 in country honored by White House for community organizing work | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Helen Gym -- Honored at White House as Champion of Change
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FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Thursday, March 27, 2014
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Morning Wink 3-27-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
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Choice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders? - Bridging Differences - Education Week
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 3-27-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
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3-27-14 Wait What?
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3-27-14 The Answer Sheet
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3-27-14 Schools Matter
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3-27-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
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by mike simpson / 9h 
3-27-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
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by mike simpson / 9h 
3-27-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
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Jeff Bryant and Amy Stuart Wells Show How Test-and-Punish Contributes to School Segregation | janresseger
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3-27-13 Curmudgucation
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by mike simpson / 9h 
3-27-14 Perdido Street School Week
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by mike simpson / 9h 
New York State’s Extreme School Segregation:Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública
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Don’t Miss! Rally for School Funding 3/27 and GOTV 3/29 | Parents United for Public Education
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A retired educator speaks out. Quinn steps up.
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YESTERDAY

Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 3-25-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMWhat’s Going On In The Florida House? Did Someone Say Ethics? Charter School Concerns?FloriDuh is up to it again … Read more here: http://bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/floridas-most-obvious-charter-school-conflict-of-interest-to-date/by gatorbonbc / 26min I suggest that you will want to read Charles M. Blowin a colu
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Uniform standards urged for reclassifying English learners | EdSource Today
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by mike simpson / 18h 
Charter school report was wrong | UTSanDiego.com
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by mike simpson / 18h 
ONE Common Core Story: Melissa Wilkins "Deer Creek Parent: My Education Experience"
Melissa Wilkins "Deer Creek Parent: My Education Experience"
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Another Defender of Eva Shows His Ignorance and Bias southbronxschool.com
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by mike simpson / 20h 
Chicago ‘Opt Out’ Mom Speaks up for Teachers and Kids at Chicago Board of Ed Meeting – Video | Continuing Change
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by mike simpson / 20h 
Ethan’s Law: Florida’s petty legislators refuse to use Ethan’s name | Reclaim Reform
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by mike simpson / 22h 
Coop’s Childhood Part 5 – Burns Park & Divorce | Lefty Parent
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by mike simpson / 23h 
Nite Cap 3-26-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP3-26-14 The Whole Child Blog — Don't Settle for the Okey-Doke in a Third Narrative of American Education — Whole Child EducationDon't Settle for the Okey-Doke in a Third Narrative of American Education — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLO
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