No wonder the Tweedies are happy.
Here's my favorite part of the new system:
"Teachers rated ineffective on student performance based on objective assessments must be rated ineffective overall."
Last February when Mulgrew and Iannuzzi agreed to drop the lawsuit against the state, the agreement between the state and the unions stated that teachers who showed "zero growth" in the test part of the evaluation had to be rated "ineffective" overall.
"Zero growth," Mulgrew and Iannuzzi assured us, was so bad that nobody would get dinged on this part of the evaluation system.
Ah, but now we find out that John King and the NYSED say that a teacher just has to be rated "ineffective" in the test part to be rated "ineffective" overall.
In other words, the test part is 100% of the evaluation.
Come up "ineffective" on that test part and it doesn't matter about the student surveys or the half dozen observations - you have to be rated "ineffective" overall.
I dunno about you, if I were Mulgrew and the state imposed a radical alteration to the system like that, I would sue over it and tie the evaluation system up in court until John King's goatee turned totally grey.
That's me.
But tonight you can bet the UFT leadership are busy thinking not how they can change this system or get it overturned in court, they're thinking about how to spin this best to the membership.
This is a total disaster for NYC teachers and students.
It would be nice if the UFT leadership would be looking for a way out of this mess that they helped create, but we're going to need some new UFT leadership for us to get that kind of action.
Explains this part to me like I'm a 5 year old because I feel that it's contradicting itself. From the SED:
ReplyDelete"The APPR plan King announced today will remain in force through the 2016-2017 school year – and under state law, remains in place in perpetuity – unless and until a successor APPR agreement is reached through collective bargaining and is approved by the Commissioner."
What do they mean by perpetuity if they seem to set the year 2017? What part am I not getting? It's bad enough that if teacher is ineffective in student growth that teacher would receive an overall ineffective rating. But I am baffled that teachers new evaluation is supposed to be tied to the contract and the fact-finding hearings are set for June and July, which 99.9% of the times, the fact-finders suggestions lead to binding arbitrations. Then you have Randi supporting Thompson whose campaign BFF is Tisch and she would love to keep teachers under her thumb by imposing testing, testing, testing and if the union supports Thompson he will not give teachers the raise they are entitled to until a critical part of the APPR stays in perpetuity such as termination immediately after receiving the second "I" rating.
OMG, what a mess! Oh the tangle web they weave when we practice to deceive.
I'm retired but I am so sick to my stomach for my colleagues, for my professional and for all the kids when testing will be the necessary evil to keep this horrible system going.
The only piece of optimism is that Mulgrew can't hide the particulars anymore. They'll try and spin it, but it's a total loss. Total.
DeleteNot a surprise, of course. After all, John King was the "independent arbitrator."
Mulgrew planned it so well and played it like a fiddle.
ReplyDeleteHe knew that having this APPR negotiation before the union election would have cost him his election.
It is so obvious the Kabuki dance of not meeting the deadline of January, of giving this so called two-year sunset that Bloomberg would reject, and dragging this APPR negotiation with King until after the election.
Mulgrew has won the election for another 3 years. He will probably set up another committee of teachers who would be the watchdogs to determine if the APPR is being implemented correctly. He has committees for anything he can defer to others so as to stay the committee has decided...here it comes, wait for it, wait for it...bullshit!
He has let down the members. He has followed in Randi's footstep. Shame on him. He should have never signed up for the Race to End a Teacher's Career.
Mulgrew's still counting the 40 million his sister booked with Bloombergs DOE...what does he care...?
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