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- 05-07-2010
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By Marcy Miranda/Fort Coliins Coloradoan
Most Poudre School District teachers aren’t afraid of being evaluated. In fact, they encourage it. But proposed changes to the evaluation process being considered by the state Legislature are misguided, some local educators said. “They are trying to enact a massive overhaul of the teacher evaluation system … but when a teacher shouldn’t be in the classroom, whose responsibility is it to correct that and work to improve that teacher?” said Mary Dietrich, an English teacher at Fort Collins High School. Dietrich is among about 20 teachers from the Poudre Education Association, the local teachers’ union, who are actively speaking out in Fort Collins and in Denver against Senate Bill 191, also called the teacher tenure bill or the educator effectiveness bill. (more...)
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