Below in italics is an excerpt from the weekly UFT Chapter Leader Update. The UFT will support legislation to allow State Education Commissioner John King to impose a teacher evaluation system on New York City teachers.
You can bet your pension it will be a lousy system based on student test scores (junk science) and the easily abused Danielson framework.
The only hope for not seeing this system imposed on us is to vote for MORE in the UFT election. Instead of saying we must comply with the evaluation law as the current union leadership does, let's collectively stand up against this unjust law in the tradition of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
Teacher eval impasse
will go to binding arbitration if no agreement reached by May
Given the city’s failure to meet the state-imposed Jan. 17 deadline, which
cost our schools $240 million, the governor added an amendment to his budget
submission on Thursday that empowers state Education Commissioner John King to
act as a binding arbitrator to settle any elements of the agreement that have
not been finalized in negotiations by May 29. In that event, after reviewing
position papers and hearing oral arguments by both sides in May, Commissioner
King will establish New York City’s new teacher evaluation plan by June 1. New
York City would have to put the plan into effect by Sept. 1. What the governor
proposes is a natural next step in collective bargaining when there is an
impasse. King, a lifelong educator who is serious about education, has approved
more than 700 evaluation plans across New York State. “We’ve seen the
kinds of plans the state has approved,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew. “We
are comfortable with them because they are about helping teachers help kids,
which is something that we don’t often hear from the city. So while I would
prefer to get to a negotiated settlement, with this in place I know a deal will
get done.”
Forget about betting your pension. You might not actually see a pension when this goes through.
ReplyDeleteThere was no way to see this coming.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with the written word sometimes is that you can not always feel the sarcasm. I don't think that is an issue this time. They will most likely win, which is unfortunate, because it shows that so many people who are educated are so dumb. Too bad anyone who votes for Mulgrew and those that vote for ANYONE else, be they MORE or their pet dog can't have separate agreements. Or how about, those that vote for UNITY can be the test group. Let those folks work under the sell out evaluation agreement, and see how it works before the rest of us are subjected to it?
Mike Mulgrew you are the worst.
Let's have the people who vote for Unity be the pilot schools for this. Great idea.
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