The Education Wars: Test Scores

When you read about the Georgia testing scandal, you have to wonder why in the HELL anybody would want to tie test scores into granting teachers tenure, but it's being threatened by NYC hotshots.

The union is threatening to sue:

It's teachers who now have to sweat student test scores.

State exam results will help determine whether 700 teachers win tenure this year, city officials announced yesterday, prompting the teachers union to threaten a lawsuit.

"It is clearly bad educational policy to evaluate teachers through the use of state test scores that the state itself has deemed unreliable," said teachers union president Michael Mulgrew.