Union president makes new proposals for teacher evaluations, discipline

Randi Weingarten made an important speech yesterday – but how important remains to be seen.  There's been some great commentary about it already.  Here's an article about what she said:

The president of the nation's second-largest teachers union on Tuesday proposed a new way to incorporate student test scores into teacher evaluations and said she has asked a well-known mediator to develop methods of expediting disciplinary cases against teachers.

Randi Weingarten of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of Teachers gave a speech in downtown Washington that union officials described as a major effort to address flash points in labor-management relations.

The AFT, Weingarten said, wants "a fair, transparent and expedient process to identify and deal with ineffective teachers. But [we] know we won't have that if we don't have an evaluation system that is comprehensive and robust and really tells us who is or is not an effective teacher."

 

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Union president makes new proposals for teacher evaluations, discipline

By Nick Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 12, 2010; 12:20 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011201647.html