The Education Wars II--Another Reason Why I Have NO Use for Nevada's Unions

Naturally, the state teachers' union president sells the rank-and-file down the river in order to receive Arne Duncan's blackmail money:

The statute was passed in 2003 when Nevada legislators were focused on No Child Left Behind, according to Lynne Warne, president of the Nevada State Education Association (NSEA).

“It was part of a very large and broad sweeping bill that dealt with the implementation of NCLB,” she said. “Since then, we have a new administration and in their final guidelines for Race to the Top, we cannot have a prohibition to linking student test scores to teacher evaluations.”

To help the state apply for the federal funding, the NSEA has a proposal that would change the language of the law. The wording is crafted so that student test scores could be used to assess teacher performance but it would not the sole criteria on which teachers would be evaluated.

“We’ll formally present the proposal to remove that barrier,” Warne said.

As the law stands, according to Jeanne Allen, president for the Center of Education Reform in Washington, D.C., the current prohibition was the desire of teachers unions.

“Not allowing for student achievement-based teacher performance evaluations is not an accident of legislation; it is a condition of teachers unions,” Allen wrote in an e-mail to the Tribune.

It's because test scores don't measure ANYTHING at all; kids notoriously don't take the tests seriously.

But this union, which is a piece of corrupt shit as I know from personal experience with WEA, naturally goes along with anything screwing teachers over.