It shows how Merryl Tisch and John King have rigged the new teacher evaluation system in NY State against teachers – over half will be declared developing or ineffective every year and test score growth will trump all other measures.
Never mind that the value-added system they’ll be using to measure student growth will have a MOE between 12%-35%.
Add value to your students on a bogus system or be declared ineffective and eventually fired.
That’s the new system, funded by Gates and Obama’s Race to the Top, developed by the Gates Foundation shills at the NYSED, rubber-stamped by the Regents and championed by Tea Party Governor Cuomo.
So it wasn’t too surprising to read (last link above) that Mr. White “demurred” when asked whether a locally run New Orleans open-enrollment charter school facing closure (and I understand under his wing since May), despite being in the midst of a turnaround strategy, should get a reprieve…. while out-of-state (and more likely less ethnically representative, per the article) charter operators are heavily favored by the state education department. See para one.
At the risk of reading too much local-to-NYC relevance into it, this episode is consistent with my belief that part of the charter movement agenda is nationalization for well-funded — and politically connected — heavy hitters, at the expense of local control and input of our children’s education.
“Hero’s work,” per Mr. White, indeed. And why shouldn’t those heros be local heros begging for the opportunity to keep struggling schools open?
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