Test Scores Now Count For 100% Of The APPR Evaluation

Now that the particulars of King's imposed system are known, I can say that this is a total nightmare.

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.