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Florida's terrible teachers bill a test for Duncan
- 03-30-2010
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Column by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
The state of Florida could prove to be a big test for Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Legislators in the Sunshine State are moving with all due speed to pass legislation that would go a long way to making sure no teacher would ever want to work in Florida again. The Republican-dominated Senate has already passed Senate Bill 6, which would require: * School systems to evaluate and pay teachers primarily on the basis of student test scores. (Testing experts say this is a really bad idea.) * School systems to ignore a teacher’s experience, advanced degrees or professional credentials in any evaluation or pay. (You don’t have to be a testing expert to know how really bad an idea this is.) (more...)
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