Why is it so hard for (some) folks to see that the Third Grade Reading Guarantee is really about shutting down as much of the teachers union as possible?
Let's look at Florida. Unless you live there you probably haven't seen this article documenting how the union is suing the state for the absolute nonsensical way it's evaluating teachers:
http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2013/04/16/teachers-union-files-federal-lawsuit-challenging-florida-teacher-evaluations/
In FL the law is called "The Student Success Act" (Senate Bill 736). There are probably differences in the way all 14 states which have all these similar laws are targeting public school teachers but I'll tell you the truth, right this moment I don't have time to look through them all and make a comparative study.
Still, I'm on the scent right now and besides trying to help my own children and others in our community where it comes to dyslexia, I'm all over this.
Just so you know how dreadful the whole "grading" teachers concept is and how it's failed to work in the business model, check out this interesting article from Slate which tells how top performers at Microsoft responded to a similar business model by an "every-worker-for-themselves" self defensive position. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/stack_ranking_steve_ballmer_s_employee_evaluation_system_and_microsoft_s.html
Now do you really think a bunch of politicians don't know that it didn't work at Microsoft. They had no idea what a lame, ugly, wrong concept this was. I think they knew exactly how to cripple the teachers morale and work over the system. Anytime someone (or a group) want power but they aren't in the majority they have to use sneaky methods like this to achieve their goal.
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