Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Weeding out the Bad Teachers

In Education Week, New York City Taps Lawyers to Weed Out Bad Teachers.

"An aggressive drive meant to weed out incompetent tenured teachers in New York City is under attack from the local teachers’ union and some teacher-quality advocates, who describe it as a “witch hunt.”

Read more HERE

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The teacher's union CYA's the backside of anyone, good or bad, in their system, as long as they pay their dues.

The teacher's union cares not one iota about the teachers. They supported the idiots that sold the teachers out in Maryland, creating one of the worst retirement programs in the US.
Politics as usual.
Now that Grasmick has been reconstituted as "The new and wonderful" Nancy, things are assuredly will change for the better.