Bill OKs teacher discipline for bad school test scores (WI)

[iwishiwas]

First off...........I despise the term "discipline" when applied to teachers and professionals!!

Second--Walker and his Repug poodles in the Legislature continue to bash teachers!!


Third--Arne and his Race to the
Top feeds the Repugs in relation to improving schools--we get pablum and the continuing bashing of teachers.

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Bill OKs teacher discipline for bad school test scores

MATTHEW DeFOUR | [e-mail] | 608-252-6144 | (97) Comments | Posted: Saturday, May 14, 2011 9:00 am
Education bill

Republicans have proposed several education changes to give school districts more flexibility.....................

Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, chairman of the Senate’s Education Committee, said the proposals came from a list of items school boards and school district administrators across the state said would help them run more efficiently. Many have been proposed before, but are more likely to pass now with Republicans in control of state government.

Conditions eliminated

In 2009, President Barack Obama announced the federal Race to the Top competitive grant program at Wright Middle School in Madison. After that, the Democratic-controlled Legislature, with the support of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state’s largest teachers union, approved changes that allowed test scores to be used in evaluations with certain conditions.

One condition, that the use of test scores in evaluations be subject to the collective bargaining process, would be eliminated in the collective bargaining law that was passed earlier this year but still is tied up in a court battle.

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WEAC President Mary Bell said Friday ....................

“This proposal simply eliminates all the teacher voice in how those processes are developed,” Bell said. “The Legislature needs to be patient on this and make sure the process that’s developed in that superintendent’s task force has an opportunity to make its recommendations.”

[Starry Messenger]

1. So fucking stupid.

Teachers don't take the tests. Not all teachers teach a subject that is tested. These bonehead and cruel maneuvers are all about breaking the unions.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. 80% of what we teach is not tested by a high stakes standardized test

But let's ignore that and blame the Art teacher for unsatisfactory scores in Reading.

[roguevalley]

3. expect an exodus of everyone who doesn't own a big fat eraser

from Wisconsin.