Kind of like he was at his previous district, which the state department of education is claiming wasn't what it was all cracked up to be on the assessments.
High transient rate, low "achievement" rate. Nothing teachers have any power over.
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Ivy League brats like Josh Marshall and Matt Yglesias should be ignored. They showed how dumb they are commenting on public education and teachers.
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It isn't education or our teachers who have anything to do with those dismal economic rankings; it has to do with our equally dismal and dim leaders.
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Why am I not surprised teachers and other staff were retaliated against?
The increase at Martin Luther King contrasted sharply with a four-year trend toward fewer suspensions in the school district. San Francisco public schools issued 2,082 suspensions during the 2010-11 school year, down from 4,341 three years earlier.
The district refused to release the total number of suspensions at Martin Luther King last year.
The teachers union, the United Educators of San Francisco, says administrators retaliated against staff members who spoke out about safety problems and site mismanagement at Martin Luther King by forcing them out of the school.
Ten cents says nothing will happen to the principal.
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This absolutely pisses me off because there is a concerted attempt by the privatizers to get rid of colleges of education and traditional paths to licensure:
Valerie Strauss recently published a piece from InsideHigherEd.com by Linda Darling-Hammond, of Stanford University, extolling the virtues of the new edTPA. This followed on the heels of a puff piece in the NYTimes quoting Ray Pecheone, also from Stanford University, at length about the need for and benefits of this hoped for national assessment of student teacher readiness to enter the classroom. And this NYTimes article was published shortly after the AACTE (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education) and the Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium unleashed their marketing campaign for the newly branded edTPA, a campaign that features Ray Pecheone and Andrea Whittaker from Stanford, and representatives from Pearson, crisscrossing the country with an edTPA purchase plan for colleges of education. Said purchase plan features tiered access, with ‘usage credit’ programs for those who commit to full implementation, and is blazoned at the bottom with the trademarks of Pearson, AACTE and Stanford’s SCALE (Stanford Center for Learning, Assessment, and Equity). Now we learn of an ‘implementation conference’ for the edTPA, one of a few across the country. Note, this is not a conference to examine its reliability, validity, or implications for teaching and teacher education, but to discuss how to best implement it. Clearly, the hard sell is on to convince both the public and the administrators of teacher education that we need a national assessment of teacher education, that the edTPA is the one we need, and that the outsourcing of the scoring to a for-profit company is the way to go with this plan.
You can bet your ass "Democrats" Obama and Duncan are all gung-ho over this.
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The Cato Institute, not a neutral observer, recently had a report noting that the existence of charter schools has had a particularly devastating impact on private school enrollment. This is most obvious in Catholic school enrollment.
It only makes sense, especially in these tough economic times. As long as charters don't charge tuition, parents will flock to those schools despite these taxpayer-financed private schools are no better than traditional public or private schools.
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Governor Walker loses the first round in the fight over collective bargaining rights of public employees.
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