Educators rally at job evaluation forum
Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Saying that it's "bad policy and bad politics," Joseph A. Laria, Superintendent of the Glen Cove School District, took to the microphone to express his opposition to the state's new teacher evaluation plan at C.W Post. (Feb. 15, 2012)
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More than 800 teachers, school principals and others turned out at a Long Island forum on job evaluations Wednesday -- most to oppose the state's plans to start using student scores on state tests in rating educators' performance.
Some organizers of the forum, held at LIU Post in Brookville, acknowledged in advance that their protests could be moot. In Albany, negotiations between the state...
