United Federation of Teachers
School Report Cards Are Out
Mayor Bloomberg and his Chancellor Joel Klein released “school report cards†which gave 50 schools a grade of “F†(99 got a “Dâ€) The grades are based, almost entirely (85%) on a measure of how individual children improved (or didn’t) on two standardized given a year apart. Thus, the number of data points on which grade rests is really one. As a result of that one date point, children is “F†schools will be allowed to transfer out. In addition, “F†and “D†schools are at risk of being shut down by Mr Bloomberg & Mr. Klein To get a feel for how careless the evaluation system is check out this Daily News article about a school with very high scores which earned an "F"
As a result, of the paucity and unreliability of the data underlying the letter grades Leonie Haimson, writing at the Public School Parent Blog, of Class Size Matters points out:
But whether your child's school received an "A" or a "F", remember -- these grades are based 85% on one year's test scores alone . As such, experts say that the results are so unreliable as to be nothing more than a winning the lottery or a roll of the dice.
These grades are merely another simplistic, misleading attempt by this administration to look tough – and evade their own responsibility for the inadequacies of our schools
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Major Union Drive in NYC
28,000 home day care workers in New York City - who are among the lowest-paid workers in the region - are one step closer to joining the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Teachers' Union. Read about it at Edwize
Submitted by Steve Perez on 1 August 2007 - 1:48pm.
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