New York State BATs

ADAMS CUTS TEACHERS: Immediately after NYS increased school funding + extended mayoral control, Adams releases a 2-year executive budget that defunds thousands of teacher positions. Adams is supposed to be ADDING teachers to comply with NYC’s class size law

OPT-OUT WORKS: New York is finally allowing districts to detach test scores from teacher evaluations. Read about how much time and money was wasted below:

New York Will Move Away from Teacher Evaluation Tied to Test Scores Back in 2010, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan rolled out his Race to the Top program to reform American education. The U.S. Department of Education offered a total of $5 billion to states. To be…

TOUGH QUESTIONS: A commission is grappling with questions about graduation requirements but whose fault is it when students don’t learn? Parents? Schools? The system?

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Board of Regents Punts the Blue Ribbon Commission Report on Graduation Measures Four years ago I traipsed to Ft Hamilton High School for a Regional Meeting addressing Graduation Measures in New York State. A few hundred of us were directed to sit at tables, I sat with a superi…