The Gates Foundation has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into teacher evaluation programs.
The US Department of Education has used its billions in Race to the Top funding to push for teacher evaluation programs.
The big winner of the latest grants is the District of Columbia, which presumably already has Michelle Rhee’s IMPACT program. But nonetheless, it just won another $23 million of our taxpayer dollars.
Millions more went to Los Angeles and to charter schools. The teachers’ union in LA still has not agreed to accept test-based evaluations. Seems someone there has read the research and knows how useless this stuff is.
Arne Duncan is certainly priming the pump where it matters least.
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Millions for teacher evals and merit pay, neither of which will improve the education of our children. How about small class sizes and diverse curriculum offerings?
Seriously, let’s pick a day and time when every teacher in America sends an email to the White House demanding Arne’s dismissal. Even if it’s because he’s ineffective.
Name the day!
I’m in.
Let me know time and day!
OK. Give me the destination email, and I’ll announce a date after the election.
Why after? He has to get rid of Duncan before I’ll even consider voting for him.
Great idea!!!
Not only is Ract to the Top pouring untold millions into student test based scores into teacher evaluation, let us not forget the Teacher Incentive Fund which is also part of grant funds being offered by the USDOE.
RTTT is $5 billion wasted.
TIF is $1 billion wasted.
This links to the rewards from USEd.
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/teacherincentive/2012awards.html
I was just studying the Louisiana grants awarded this round and back in 2010. Astounded at the amounts of money coming from Feds to subversively promote their agenda. In 2010 New Schools For New Orleans received millions. Now, understand that NSNO is basically an arm of TFA. A major purpose of this grant is to develop effective CAREER teachers. I am going to file a public information Request to both the Feds and LDOE for the requisite progress reports that NSNO had to file. Opening this link will also provide the full grant applications and the inflated/misrepresented claims about the success of RSD schools. Very interesting reading.
This is taxpayer money!
I must admit as much as I support the President….his decisions around the US DOE is really creating a serious quandary for me!!!
I have come to a point where I realize that both parties are offering the same poor plan. What bothers me is how the NEA is willing to over look this fact when it comes to Obama. If all of these plans were coming from the GOP, the National Education Association would be fighting tooth and nail to stop them. So, it comes down to my union throwing the rank and file under the bus for the bad policies of Obama OR biting the bullet and voting for Romney, knowing it’s the same plan, but the union stepping up to the plate. Right now, no one is fighting for us.