Mercedes Schneider says that Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2015 sounds remarkably like Governor Bonby Jindal in 2012.
Amazing resemblance:
“In Louisiana in 2012, second-term-elected Governor Jindal commanded the legislature. As for his test-driven education agenda, Jindal had the legislature pass Act 1, commonly known as the Teacher Tenure Law, in short order. That is the legislation that officially ushered in Louisiana teachers’ being graded using their students’ test scores, with 50 percent of the annual teacher evaluation based on student scores and 50 percent, on administrative evaluation. Teachers are rated in one of four categories–“highly effective,” “effective,” “effective emerging,” and “ineffective.” An “ineffective” rating via test scores is enough for a teacher to be declared “ineffective” overall.
“For teachers to have tenure, they must be rated “highly effective” for five out of six years.
“Looks like Cuomo has taken his 2015 State of the State teacher evaluation ideas from Louisiana in 2012.”
Jindal didn’t get far with his teacher-bashing agenda. Most of it was declared unconstitutional by the courts. It’s time for teachers in Néw York to Send In the Lawyers to stop Cuomo from destroying the profession.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Time for statewide strikes?
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How come charters arent subject to this – don’t they need effective teachers? Or just temporary poorly paid ones?
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Andy and Bobby sittin’ in a tree,
C-C-S-S-I-N-G …
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TAGO!!
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Reblogged this on seldurio.
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The new Bobby Jindal issued an executive order providing free speech rights to Louisiana public school teachers so that they could speak out against the Common Core and high stakes, punitive testing. Maybe Andy will have a political epiphany too.
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“. . . Jindal issued an executive order. . . ”
Oh, so kind and lordly for his highness to allow the peons to supposedly speak freely.
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Same rules in Ohio for the most part but we don’t have tenure. Of course, “highly effective” is near impossible to achieve. They all read from the same ALEC/Gates playbook, complete with deflated footballs. Try the crazy ideas in one place, if it doesn’t work, pop up like roaches in another place. Big, ugly, scary roaches. Like the ones I’d see at my last school when I flipped on the lights in the morning. I just couldn’t get these pests out of my classroom.
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Administrators were in your room so early in the morning???
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LOL!!!!!
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Looks like everyone who predicted Common Core testing would be used to bash teachers and public schools was right. Here’s the NYTimes editorial board announcing 66% of students are failing, and using the new lower pass rate to campaign for ed reform political goals:
“Fewer than 1 percent of the state’s teachers were rated ineffective in the most recent evaluations, while only about a third of the state’s students in grades 3 through 8 were proficient in math and language arts.”
That’ll be the national talking point when the rest of the state scores come back- “2/3’s of students are failing!”. Weren’t we told by people who promoted the Common Core tests that the new lower scores wouldn’t be used to push an ed reform political agenda? They’re already using it as a hammer.
It’s a betrayal of all the people who took them at their word that these new, harder tests wouldn’t be used as yet another ed reform club. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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No he is copying the Legislature of the State of Florida.
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Or Ohio 🙂
It’s all exactly the same: One Cleveland, One Newark, One Detroit, One Philadelphia, One New Orleans…..
I do give Republicans more credit though, because they invented it. Democrats are just following them. Republicans get points for having an actual agenda of their own.
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Speaking of Jindal, how’s the only lawsuit challenging the legality of RTTT/Common Core/PAARC going?
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All this is straight out of Jeb Bush’s playbook – basing teacher ratings 50% on test scores has been adopted mostly in GOP states or where Bush’s Chiefs for Change rule – like in NM. As the popularity & confidence of value-added is rapidly ebbing across the country, a supposed Democrat Governor in NY pushing this here? Yet another sign of how Cuomo’s policies are being influenced by his big money contributors rather than research or the support of the voters.
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I agree, send in the lawyers!
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In order for any teacher evaluation to work, administrators must be evaluated first, using the following criteria:
Highly impartial and bright,
impartial and bright,
impartial and bright emerging,
ineffective.
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“It’s time for teachers in Néw York to Send In the Lawyers to stop Cuomo from destroying the profession.” It’s DEFINITELY TIME for the teachers in NYS to send in the lawyers….
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“Lawyers, Unions And Money” (apologies to Warren Zevon)
Well, I went home with the Sec Ed
The way I always do
How was I to know
He was with Reformers, too?
I was grumbling in the classroom
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, unions and money
FLERP! get me out of this!
I’m the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between a test and a VAM place
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
Now I’m hiding in the staff room
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, unions and money
The ***t has hit the fan
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Slight change:
Well, I went home with the Principal
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with Reformers, too?
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Aw, shucks, oh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwQjy_ZTaRM
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I saw Zevon at the State Fair in Salt Lake city once in the 80’s
The guy was awesome, though the hall was made for livestock and not music.
He never got the respect he deserved, not unlike many great artists who won’t play the commercial game.
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The Principals, the Unions, talk is what they do
Because they don’t make 40 grand
They can’t relate to you
But teachers hope and pay them money
In hopes that they will do
Instead they sit in their cushy offices
I guess the joke’s on you.
When will teachers wake up and say this game is rigged
Instead of putting hopes in politicians and continuously getting jigged.
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And NYSUT and AFT stand silent. Or worse than silent having caved on testing and VAM. Where’s our leadership. Sure, more money (which would have been in the budget anyway given the surplus) is fine to protest for. But where are they when it comes to CCSS, BS Testing and changes to APPR?
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Seriously, though. There are possibly thousands of comments on this blog about how RTTT is unconstitutional and/or illegal. For years, Diane has written that RTTT and the Common Core standards represent illegal attempts by the federal government to control curriculum and instruction. Jindal is challenging RTTT and the Common Core on precisely these grounds. To my knowledge, no other state (or state official) has done so or plans to do so. This year, perhaps within a few months, a federal court will either dismiss the case or let it proceed to discovery and perhaps trial. Yet there appears to be zero interest on this blog, or anywhere else on the Internet for that matter.
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