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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Perdido Street School: Why The UFT Will Never Go Back On The Teacher Evaluation System Sell-Out

Perdido Street School: Why The UFT Will Never Go Back On The Teacher Evaluation System Sell-Out:

Why The UFT Will Never Go Back On The Teacher Evaluation System Sell-Out

Norm Scott posted the following:
This came in an email as a suggestion for MORE to take up the cause and I think it should. But I wonder if the UFT which supports and vehemently defends the new evaluation system will be calling for a waiver.


It is now possible for states to request a waiver from teacher evaluations for the upcoming school year.  Randi Weingarten and the AFT (parent body of the UFT) has asked for it and, in an astonishing about-face, Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education and the person responsible for tying federal funding to 

From Lloyd Green:Five years into the Obama presidency, we are further from the Great Recession but also closer to a new normal—economic dystopia.Yes, the unemployment rate has edged down to 7.6 percent, but America is well on its way to becoming a nation of part-timers and full-time temps. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of  involuntary part-time workers rose by 322,000 to