Unable to increase local property taxes sufficiently, the warped education strategy that has been developed by Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, will continue to mean that many communities will face higher property taxes while actually being forced to reduce their education programs so they can shift scarce resources away from student instruction and toward implementing the new Common Core tests and the absurd new teacher evaluation program. (jonathanpelto.com)
Indiana school corporations are required to submit new teacher evaluation programs to the state Department of Education by next month, but some legislators expressed their concerns about the law at an education study committee hearing Tuesday. (indianapublicmedia.org)
As you read Littman's piece, remember that these are the same people who have forced the Common Core on our children, promoted the absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme and the equally absurd, unfair and wasteful new teacher evaluation program. (jonathanpelto.com)