Connecticut’s largest teachers union called for new teacher evaluations in a policy proposal. (WSJ)
Idaho teachers say the state’s requirement for digital classes wasn’t throughly thought out. (Times)
The Times endorses the Obama administration’s efforts to overhaul Head Start offerings nationally.
Vote NO!
Regrading the funding fof the 33 PLA schools in the NY Times article: This is what large sums of the suspended l grant money is being used for:
“At John Dewey High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Barry Fried, the
principal, said his school still had to pay $500,000 to its external
partner, the Institute for Student Achievement, chosen by the city to
oversee its progress.”
Most of the money is not going to the classrooms in the 33 PLA schools.
GUest
If the City really needed money they would not have let $60 million of special ed funding go unclaimed last week because of the Department of Education’s negligence. Trying to blackmail the teachers in the press will not work this time.
Donnie
I work in a PLA school where we have almost 4,000 students, six computers for them, we had to lay off one of the two librarians (the one still there has to cover classes most of the day because teachers have to go to meetings and staff development all the time), school aides have been laid off, but yet this EPO (who doesn’t even provide any of all that “staff development”) walks away with all the cash!? Keep the 60 million! Not one damn penny gets spent on new technology, hiring needed staff, new supplies- NOT ONE useful thing for the students. But we are using that evaluation plan which has decimated morale in the school and veteran teachers are frequent targets of those Ineffective ratings. Two years of them and you’re fired. And then you have idiots criticizing the union for trying to prevent this from happening. This is deplorable.
“My big problem with the rollout of the Common Core is that, if some teachers hadn't read this article, they might have felt like they were the only ones confused about the CCS rollout too.”
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