New York’s Ahern V. King: Court-Ordered to Move Forward
In Ahern v. King, filed on April 16, 2014, the Syracuse Teachers Association (and its President Kevin Ahern, along with a set of teachers employed by the Syracuse School District) sued the state of New York (and its Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education John King, along with others representing the state) regarding its teacher evaluation system.
They alleged that the state’s method of evaluating teachers is unfair to those who teach economically disadvantaged students. More specifically, and as per an article inEducation Week to which I referred in a post a couple of weeks ago, they alleged that the state’s value-added model (which is actually a growth model) fails to “fully account for poverty in the student-growth formula used for evaluation, penalizing some teachers.” They also alleged that “the state imposed regulations without public comment.”
Well, the decision on the state’s motion to dismiss is in. The Court rejected the state’s attempt to dismiss this case; hence, the case will move forward. For the full report, see New York’s Ahern V. King: Court-Ordered to Move Forward | VAMboozled!:
