This is all part of the massive, multi-million tax - payer
dollar teacher evaluation processes started by our Commissioner of Education, our governor, and our state legislators and fully supported by statisticians employed by the state and assessment - making companies.
In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to
teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public
dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for
teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a
teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the
teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how
teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate
evaluations.
Despite the massive expenditure of public
dollars, including more than $ 20 million a year in Connecticut state funds, the SBAC test and its sister version which is called the PARCC test, fail to adequately measure student achievement and have no appropriate role in the
teacher evaluation process.