Students for Education Reform and StudentsFirst have brought pressure on the New York City teachers’ union to agree to a deal with the state to rate teachers by their students’ test scores.
But what these groups have overlooked is that the overwhelming majority of charter schools have said no. Few have turned in their teacher ratings, and most don’t intend to comply.
They say no deal. Forget about it.
The public schools should learn from the best practices of the charters and do the same.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Public school districts in NY cannot say no. The Governor has a monetary threat written into the budget law. no eval and he will withold state aid. Charters, although for purposes that suit them call themselves public lea’s, don’t seem to be when it would cost them money.
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And you know who are in the board of students first & SFER? Some I’d the same people who are on the board & run these charter schools!
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Irony at its finest since these organizations push for and support charter schools. Seems there is benefit in giving schools autonomy and allowing families and not test scores to hold them accountable.
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Charter schools don’t need the money because they get tons of extra cash from private corporations. Regular public schools in New York don’t need the money either as the money is not even going to be used in the classroom but rather for more testing nonsense. The 300 million dollar question is this: Can regular public school districts simply reject the money and refuse to agree to a new evaluation? If charter schools can do this, why can’t regular public schools? Does the law say districts MUST change their evaluation systems? Or rather, is New York State simply trying to tempt districts to change their evaluations for extra cash that districts don’t even want in the first place?
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Hypocrisy writ large. Note the last paragraph where two prominent charterites [a CEO and a president] pompously declare: “In traditional schools and districts, which may fail students for years without being closed, prescriptive rules about teacher evaluation may be the best policy available[…] It is neither necessary nor appropriate for charter schools.” They also declaim that the teacher evals “are not a good fit for charter schools because the schools are held accountable in other ways.”
Judge not lest ye be judged. They not only ignore current best practices, they seem oblivious to hard-won wisdom thousands of years old. So much for twenty-first century learning and teaching from the charterites and privatizers!
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In Michigan, charters can only be closed by the authorizers. People like to say that charters can be closed but it rarely occurs. And the reasons are likely that they are not profitable.
Charters are very hypocritical when it comes to statistics. When the Detroit News (which adores charters beyond all reason) noted that charter high schools in Detroit were doing worse than traditional public high schools in Detroit, the charter leaders immediately trotted out a bunch of other reasons why they were successful. Had a public school used those reasons, the News would have scoffed at the insufficiency of such anecdotal information.
They can’t lose.
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