(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
So says Sam Dillon in today’s New York Times. Apparently the administration says it is going to get rid of the things that drive school boards and teacher unions crazy, but maintain a strong system of accountability. So, we’ll see about that, but color me skeptical. The 2007 sop involved throwing ELL kids under the “porfolio assessment” bus.
On the positive side, the administration is going to propose getting rid of the 2014 100% proficiency standard that will otherwise push states to dummy down their state standards.
So are the teacher unions and school boards going to give back the huge wads of money we’re now giving them every year because they said they really, really needed that money to live up to the outrageous demands of NCLB – which will now be gone?
I will boldly predict now that the unions will cry for more money regardless of what the rest of the bill looks like.