John King Sails Through Confirmation Hearings

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1. Z says:

   February 26, 2016 at 12:07 pm

   Aaargh! They have already decided they don’t want to confirm Obama’s Supreme Court candidate, and they don’t even know who he/she is, but they confirm this known quantity!?!

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   • Zorba says:

     February 26, 2016 at 12:53 pm

     Great comment! You win the Internet today!

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2. Robert says:

   February 26, 2016 at 1:06 pm

   Double aaargh! Here in NYS the education community let out a collective sigh of relief when he left, only to suck it back in as the news of his promotion to reformster-in-chief of the USA followed! At least here in NYS our governor Andy has been forced to recognize the disaster the King helped create and, for the time being at least, it seems teachers will no longer be evaluated 50% by the scores of their students on standardized tests. The same tests, ironically, that are still being used to define schools that are “failing.”

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   • Robert Rendo, NBCT says:

     February 26, 2016 at 8:27 pm

     Wrong, Robert. Sorry, Charlie.

     While there is a three year moratorium on using test scores to evaluate teachers (I believe with the exception of the test known as the Regents), it is the FOURTH year that looks back at the average of one’s standardized test scores in the PREVIOUS three years and in that fourth year, that average score is will be used to determine 50% of a teacher’s evaluation. This could change if the law changes before the fourth year arrives, but if it does change, one does not know if it will be for the better or worse.

     It is, at best, a specious mortatorium, looking to determine APPR in what I think is a convoluted retroactive way.

     Boxing gloves back on; here comes round two . . . . .

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3. Linda says:

   February 26, 2016 at 1:29 pm

   Did Weingartner rally the troops to oppose King?

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   • Duane Swacker says:

     February 27, 2016 at 6:42 am

     Ha ha ha ha ha!!

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   • dmaxmj says:

     February 27, 2016 at 1:01 pm

     Really? A better question: Did she bake cupcakes for the after party?

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4. Robert says:

   February 26, 2016 at 1:57 pm

   Linda, well, not much. Parental anger and the opt-out movement produced the outcomes in NYS.

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5. NYS Parent says:

   February 26, 2016 at 3:28 pm

   Please stop wasting time and energy on John King. He is water under the bridge. He is irrelevant to the future of public education in NYS. The ball is in our court. All efforts must be directed at the Board of Regents and Commissioner Elia before their April decisions. They must be urged to dismantle Governor Cuomo’s Regents Reform Agenda and to bring an end to all punitive testing in NYS.

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6. Laura H. Chapman says:

   February 26, 2016 at 3:35 pm

   Not surprising, very disappointing.

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7. prekmatters says:

   February 27, 2016 at 3:57 pm

   Their end game plan does not look promising. I believe this administration will go down in history as doing incredible damage to public education.

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8. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   February 27, 2016 at 5:13 pm

   Disgusting!

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