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Diane Ravitch exhorts city principals to join evaluations protest | GothamSchools

Diane Ravitch exhorts city principals to join evaluations protest | GothamSchools:

Diane Ravitch exhorts city principals to join evaluations protest

Principals union president Ernest Logan with Diane Ravitch after Ravitch's speech to union members on Tuesday

City principals should overcome their fear and join with more than a thousand of their colleagues from across the state who oppose New York’s teacher evaluation rules, Diane Ravitch urged during a speech to the principals union Tuesday.

A group of Long Island principals launched a petition in November arguing that the state’s evaluation regulations