Rhee Is Wrong And Misinformed
CNN Blog, August 9, 2012
A few days ago, CNN interviewed former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee about American education. Rhee, predictably, said that American education is terrible, that test scores are flat, and that we are way behind other nations on international tests.
FROM THE STATES
ALABAMA
Alabama Shows Improvement On AYP
Montgomery Advertiser, AL, August 10, 2012
Thursday’s Adequate Yearly Progress numbers, the last Alabama will receive if it is successful in opting out of No Child Left Behind requirements, show modest statewide improvements in student proficiency and challenges for Montgomery County Public Schools.
CALIFORNIA
LAUSD Negotiate Revisions to Teacher Evaluations
Bell Gardens Sun, CA, August 9, 2012
By Dec. 4, teachers and principals in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will face revised performance evaluation criteria to comply with the California Stull Act that requires student progress data be used as part of the evaluation process.
Assembly Democrats Too Cowardly To Vote
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA, August 9, 2012
But then it came before the Assembly Education Committee, which shamefully bowed to the state’s powerful teacher unions and rejected the bill. All this took place while teacher union lobbyists communicated to committee members that they “were watching.”
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Let Principals, Not Tests, Rate Teachers
Washington Post Blog, DC, August 9, 2012
The D.C. schools continue to be one of the worst places to learn and hardest places to teach in America , but its leaders are making sensible, if slow, changes in the right direction. The latest smart adjustments are in teacher evaluation.
FLORIDA
Polk Gets Approval For Six ‘Step Up Academy’ Charter Schools
The Ledger, FL, August 9, 2012
The Polk County School District got the go-ahead Thursday to open six charter schools for at-risk students.
Ormond Firm Elects To Redirect Taxes To Help Students
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL, August 10,