Teachers unions in Glendale and Burbank are opposed to using test results to evaluate teachers, despite President Obama’s insistence that they are useful in holding educators accountable and assuring that the good teachers are retrained and bad ones are let go.
Republican state Sen. Bob Huff, vice chairman of the Senate’s Sub-Committee on Education, has also turned up the heat on teachers who feel that test scores can be unfair measures that offer limited views of an educator’s effectiveness.
He has sent letters to multiple newspapers calling on teachers to allow the results to be considered in the process of their evaluations.
“This is an opportunity to not only bring in more funding for our education system, at a time when we have had to cut state funding, but also make common sense reforms to make all of our education dollars work better and more efficiently,” Huff said in a statement.
“It’s a win-win for everyone.”
California School Boards Assn. Executive Director Scott Plotkin also threw his weight behind the reforms supported by Schwarzenegger, Duncan and others, which will include increasing parents’ choice of public schools, allowing more charter schools and instituting alternative pay structures for the teachers in the toughest jobs, according to Schwarzenegger’s office.
“There is great merit in many of the proposals announced at the governor’s press conference today, and it is vital for the education community to work together with the Legislature and administration to develop effective reforms that address the key issues that impede student achievement,” Plotkin said.
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