Bloomberg, Cuomo, and King all hailed the new evaluation system as a "big win" for kids.
Administrators aren't going to see it that way.
4-6 observations a year for every teacher, pre- and post-observation conferences, more committee meetings to sit through (even if, in the end, they're sham committee meetings and principals have veto power over everything discussed), all 22 items on the Danielson rubric - administrator work load has just shot through the roof with this system.
Add to that the new principal evaluation system agreed to by the principals union that adds a whole host of new evaluation criteria and I'm betting there won't be too many administrators smiling gleefully at this new evaluation system tomorrow when they return to school.
Sure, they have more hammers in the bludgeon box to use on teachers.
But they also have a lot more work to do (if they follow the new rules) and they have a "rigorous" new evaluation system for themselves that allows the city to hold their feet to the fire the way the new APPR system allows them to hold teachers' feet to the fire.
Frankly the only group that won't be held accountable for anything are the educrats who make the rules and the politicians who pass these unworkable systems into law.
The efforts of those who justly oppose the UFT leadership must begin at once. The disastrous results of this agreement will become quite evident by June 2014 and the wheels will come off in June 2015. The only chance to oust the Mulgrew caucus will be to win enough delegates to remove retirees from the election process. There is a chance for a removal ala Chicago if enough teachers are effected by this agreement and they will be.
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