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Go Read It: NYT Editorial, "Fairness in Firing Teachers"

March 7, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

The NYT’s editorial on determining fair standards for identifying effective and ineffective teachers: during times of budget crisis, layoffs shouldn’t pit new teacher effectiveness against costlier senior teachers as is the case under existing “last hired, first fired” rules. Most troubling: defining teacher effectiveness through student performance. (How about raising revenue and cutting elsewhere first?)

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

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Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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