Re: arizona teacher salary

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I have found teacher evaluations down here in Dysart to be a very
unfair process. It is extremely "political". I saw teachers that
were horrible get glowing recommendations simply because they were
part of the "in" crowd. I know of two master teachers in other states
that came to AZ and were treated like dirt. Also what is to stop an
administrator from lowering the salaries of those teachers that get
paid a fair wage. I know of adminstrators that were out to get rid of
the teachers they did not like. The evaluations done had no bearing
on the actual ability of the teacher to teach.

On 11/18/09, yep! wrote:
> Which brings us back to (I think it was jamill's remark) WHO are
> the nincompoops who voted FOR this legislation? Names, names,
> please...that way we can be sure to NOT vote for them and who CAN
> we vote for?
>
> On 11/17/09, dm wrote:
>> but meanwhile, we're stuck with ineffective politicians until
>> election times....
>>
>>
>> On 11/17/09, Sandy wrote:
>>> I have heard of this legislation too (lowering a teacher's
>>> salary at any time during the year, giving teachers less
>>> time to improve).
>>>
>>> This is what our administration said (not saying I believe
>>> them):
>>>
>>> Arne Duncan's RTTT (Race to the Top) is requiring states to
>>> to dismantle any data "firewalls" prohibiting student test
>>> scores from factoring into teacher evaluations. So Arizona
>>> is getting rid of provisions that allow bad or ineffective
>>> teachers to stay, and gives school districts more leeway to
>>> get rid of ineffective teachers faster.
 

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