Showing posts with label rigged. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rigged. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

NY Times: Cuomo Reportedly Set To Reduce Role Of Testing In His Vaunted APPR Teacher Evaluation System

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It's amazing what 220,000+ opt outs and poll numbers mired in the very low 40's will do to a politician's take on a particular i...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

NYSED Uses Rigged Survey To Claim 71.5% Back Common Core

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No wonder NYSED made the Common Core survey so long and complicated - they were going to use it to claim they have wide support for their re...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Cuomo's School Receivership Program Is "Stack Ranking" For Schools, Designed To Break Up The System

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Fred LeBrun in the Times-Union dissects Cuomo's vaunted school receivership program: In the Capital Region, only Albany's William...
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Monday, September 7, 2015

Many Students Return To School Without Their Common Core Test Results

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You know how educrats, education reformers and civil rights activists living off the Gates/Broad Foundation dole like to say we must have st...
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Friday, March 6, 2015

SUNY Professors: Cuomo, NYSED Setting Up Teachers To Fail

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 From the Capital New York Education update: UNION: CUOMO SABOTAGING PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS—Capital’s Jessica Bakeman: “ A union represent...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

John Flanagan Signals There'll Be No More Local Negotiation Of NY's Teacher Evaluation System

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From Capital NY's morning email on education: Senate education chair John Flanagan said lawmakers should consider limiting school di...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

Cuomo Employs Shock Doctrine To Blow Up New York's Public Education System

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You claim the following: The fact that only about one third of students are proficient on state tests in math and language arts was “sim...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Open Thread: Does Any State Have A Quota For How Many Teachers Must Be Rated "Ineffective" Every Year?

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The last 24 hours we've gotten an indication that Governor Andrew Cuomo and Regents Chancellor Tisch will look to impose some kind of ...
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NYSED: Teacher Evaluators Must Rate At Least 5% Of Teachers "Ineffective" For System To Be Valid

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This story is behind a paywall at Capital NY (previewed in the Capital NY's morning education email), but if you're looking for an i...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

NYSED Commissioner King: We'll Rig Common Core Tests To Show Continued Gains Over Time

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Jessica Bakeman at Capital NY: ALBANY—State education commissioner John King expects student performance on Common Core-aligned exams to...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Cuomo Will Lead A Witch Hunt Of "Failing" Teachers In His Second Term

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Here's a preview of the second term shenanigans we can expect from Governor Andrew Cuomo with his vaunted APPR teacher evaluation system...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Cuomo/Hochul Spent $5.9 Million On Primary

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This says everything you need to know about the corrupt nature of our politics: ALBANY – They were never worried about their Democratic P...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

So Much For Randi Weingarten And The AFT Fighting The Common Core

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Norm Scott is at the AFT convention in L.A. - he reports Randi Weingarten and her Unity/UFT minions had the votes to secure their own pro-Co...
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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Working Families Party Rank-And-File Call "Bullshit!" On Governor Cuomo

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As in literally: For four hours on Saturday, the W.F.P.’s convention was a collective group therapy session, where dozens of members of ...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Some Reaction To Cuomo's Common Core Panel

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Here are some comments left at the Capital Confidential reporting Cuomo's Common Core panel announcement: Once again the Bully of Ne...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Taking A Closer Look At Andrew Cuomo's Rigged Common Core Panel

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Via State of Politics, here is the Common Core panel list: The panel’s members are: Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citi...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

What "Vibrant" Democracy In The AFT/NYSUT/UFT Looks Like

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Randi Weingarten said somewhere on the Twitter last night that the inter-union fight in the NYSUT is just an example of "vibrant democr...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

How NYC Teachers Are Going To Be Rated "Ineffective" Based On Test Scores Alone

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A piece from Carol Burris in the Washington Post about how one excellent teacher got dinged as "developing" after receiving 58 ou...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

What Happens After Parents Get Their Children's Common Core Test Scores?

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Two weeks ago, NYSED Commissioner John King And Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch gleefully released the scores on their vaunted new Common Co...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

NYC Passing Rates: 26% ELA, 30% Math

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When you rig the exams to give you these kind of outcomes, well, these are the stats you get: Large numbers of New York students failed ...
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