Teachers being rated based on invalid/unreliable student assessments, even if they are different from the state tests, is wrong and does not help students to learn.
Here is the reaction to the bill passing from New York State Allies for Public Education on Facebook.
The “compromise” (with who now?) bill passed both houses. It was clear from each and every legislator in both houses speaking (with exception of just a couple), that they have NO IDEA that this bill does not decouple testing from evaluations.
Legislators:
“It’s time we decouple testing from evaluations!!”
“I vote YES!!!” (to a bill that doesn’t do that)
It’s not over yet. We will push for legislators to sign onto a bill that will change the matrix from 50/50 to something much less (90/10?). This will require all hands on deck!
We CAN have an evaluation system that protects teachers AND students.
Read this account from the Daily News to show how the media doesn't get the bill either.
I mostly agree with our friends at NYSAPE but 90/10 is not the answer either. We need to scrap the whole evaluation law and start over.
You can sign and spread our petition calling for such a law.
On a totally different topic, Norm Scott has initial reactions from across the political spectrum on the Los Angeles teacher strike settlement.
Read this account from the Daily News to show how the media doesn't get the bill either.
I mostly agree with our friends at NYSAPE but 90/10 is not the answer either. We need to scrap the whole evaluation law and start over.
- We need an evaluation system that has 0% of educator ratings based on student assessment results.
- We need an evaluation system that does away with the Danielson framework forever.
You can sign and spread our petition calling for such a law.
On a totally different topic, Norm Scott has initial reactions from across the political spectrum on the Los Angeles teacher strike settlement.
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politicians politicians politicians, we need to kick them all in the butt and send them to the border for border patrol
If you read the bill, this is NOT a victory. The APPR matrix still ties assessments to teacher evals. Common core is still in place. And they are STILL administering the state tests. Don’t be fooled! Keep fighting!
When I started teaching, teachers mobilized....even against the union. The last differential was supposed to be 25 years up from 20 with union support. I remember when the then VP for Elementary Ed came to our school to sell us on the contract. He was met with hostility. I’m sure other schools had a similar reaction. We all told him we would be voting NO on that contract. Now it’s 22 years. Thank the teachers who mobilized.
So why aren’t teachers mobilizing now?
Our only alternative is to starve the beast and stop paying dues.
Everybody MUST go to the UFT Facebook page. It is insane how stupid our teachers are. Everyone thinks that testing related to our evaluation is 100% gone. They are clueless as the light is day. We still have to have tests, we still have HEDI and we still have Danielson. This is not a "win" in any shape or form.
So back to square one, nothing ever changes. Ratings, student discipline, teacher abuse, transfer system is a fraud, grades are a fraud, students who cant read and write taking AP english...
Rumor is ATRs now rated under advance. Any truth to this?
So the uft said we should stand with LA during their strike, while we get the worst contract in union history in 2014, and a continuation in 2018, after the 4 + 4 we didn't even negotiate in 2009 and 2010, we averaged, maybe 1% per year over the last 10 years..Make sense? And schools still filled with fraud, and in shambles.
Raise in percent terms...12% from 2011 until May 2020. Yeah, about 1.1%
2011: 0
2012: 0
2013: 1
2014: 1
2015: 1
2016: 1.5
2017: 2.5
2018: 3
2019: 2
Plus they still owe tens of thousands of dollars to me and many others in retro with no interest, ten years later.
It's so comforting that the target audience hasn't gone away while I went on hiatus. Nice to hear from all of you again.
James, this is about a strike, right? Why does the uft push the LA strike but not our own? Because it suits them, not the teachers.
In all fairness, salary and class sizes are much worse in LA as compared to NYC for teachers. I do, however, see your point as many working conditions are horrible in NYC but the UFT mostly just goes through the motions while teachers are abused.
I was a teacher in California for 3 years. I was untenured the whole time. I was only observed ONCE A YEAR and it was an announced observation. There was absolutely no Danielson, HEDI, drive by's or any of the other horse shit that we have to deal with. In California, admins know which teachers are good and leave those teachers alone. Nothing can be further from that here in NYC.
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