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Friday, July 27, 2012

UTLA Lawyer: The Scoop « Diane Ravitch's blog

UTLA Lawyer: The Scoop « Diane Ravitch's blog:


UTLA Lawyer: The Scoop

I have a copy of the judge’s writ and will try to post it (it is in a pdf file and I don’t know how to copy that).
Background: UTLA has resisted the imposition of value-added-assessments to evaluate teachers, knowing that research shows these measures to be highly unstable and inaccurate. UTLA was burned two years ago when the Los Angeles Times created its own rating system and used test scores to publish its ratings of thousands of teachers.
Subsequently a California group called EdVoice, funded by billionaire foundations (Broad and Walton), discovered a 40-year-old law called the Stull Act, which says that pupil performance should factor into the evaluations of teachers and administrators. EdVoice filed suit on behalf of anonymous parents to demand that