Showing posts with label the fix is in. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the fix is in. Show all posts
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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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Success Academy Registers As Lobbying Entity

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Nick Reisman at State of Politics: A day after a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled plans to broadly overhaul the state’s education...
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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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Saturday, May 31, 2014

Consensus Is, Cuomo Has No Intention Of Fulfilling Any Deal With Working Families Party

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From Times reporter Nick Confessore: What does it mean that press corps instant consensus is Cuomo has no intention of genuinely trying t...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Teacher On Cuomo Common Core Panel: No Discussion Or Dissent Was Allowed

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A tweet last night from the teacher on the Cuomo Common Core panel: I will issue a further statement tomorrow on the sham of @NYGovCuomo ...
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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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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

NYSED, Regents Squeeze The ELA Regents Exam Scores

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A comment Pogue left on a post here at Perdido Street School about the outrage that is this year's ELA Regents exam: January 2012 Eng...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

Was The Fix In On The ELA Regents Exam?

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NYC Educator has a post up tonight about the outrage that was the ELA Regents exam. Here's a bit of what he said: Read the two pass...
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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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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Julie Cavanagh Breaks Down The APPR Decisions

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A great post from Julie Cavanagh at MORE Caucus on the choices to be made both individually and collectively by teachers in the new evaluat...
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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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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Merryl Tisch And John King Have Rigged The State Tests To Produce "Failing" Results

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Diane Ravich posted this today: New York City’s chief academic officer–a testing zealot–here announces that scores will plummet on the n...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

The ELA Regents Exam: Set Up By The Regents And The NYSED To Fail Both Students And Teachers

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There are two good pieces on the brutal scoring chart that the NYSED and Regents are using for the 2013 June ELA Regents exam. Gotham Scho...
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Cuomo Issues Threat On Imposed Evaluation System On NYC Teachers

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From the Daily News: In a letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, Cuomo wrote that the city and union have until May 8 to reach a...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mulgrew's Re-Election Victory Speech

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Sure his Unity caucus lost lots of support in high schools and middle schools.   Sure MORE garnered 40% of the votes in the high schools. ...
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UFT: Not A Union - A Benefits Collective For Retired Teachers

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Pissed Off Teacher in comments: Many UFT retirees have no idea what is going on. I mentioned MORE at a meeting and told them not to vot...
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UFT Elections - Unity And New Action Support Drops Significantly From 2010 In Middle Schools And High Schools

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James Eterno at Ice-UFT blog: We have initial slate only numbers for the high schools and the middle schools in the UFT election and alt...
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