State exam results to help determine whether 700 teachers win tenure

[tonysam]

After all of the negative publicity regarding Georgia's standardized tests, you'd think NYC hotshots would get a clue.

Not a chance:

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.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. OMG

Those poor kids.

[YvonneCa]

2. This is what I had...

...expected would happen eventually. This issue presents a class action lawsuit...but individual teachers have little power or recourse to pursue it. Up until now, unions have not acted on this.