On 6/22/09, This sucks wrote:
> From Orlando Sentinel Education Blog:
>
> The Orange County school district declared a hiring freeze
> late Friday, saying no teacher jobs could be filled but for
> those at nine campuses.
>
> The nine schools did not make adequate yearly progress in
> 2008-09 under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Some,
> but not all, of them did poorly on Florida's school report
> card last week, too.
>
> The state's new Differentiated Accountability system -- a
> complicated system that combines state grades and NCLB to
> judge performance-- is the reason for the hiring freeze,
> the district says.
>
> I don't yet have a detailed explanation, and the nine
> schools were not all in the same "D.A." category last year.
>
> But this much is clear: All jobs that had been open at
> other Orange County public schools are now on hold.
>
> The district's goal is get "high-performing staff" hired
> for the 9 schools first and then resume hiring for other
> schools, said Kathy Marsh, a district spokesman.
>
> The nine schools are Catalina, Ivey Lane, Hiawassee, Lovell
> and Wheatley elementary schools and Carver, Memorial,
> Walker and Westridge middle schools.
>
> District administrators are reviewing the current teachers
> at those nine schools to find out if any did not make
> "performance gains," Marsh said. Some of those instructors
> could be shifted to other campuses, she added.
>
> Administrators are also looking over the records of
> teachers at other schools to see if anyone would be a good
> match for jobs at the nine, she said.
>
> At the moment, they do not know how many teachers they will
> need at the nine schools.
>
> Once the jobs at the nine schools are filled,
> administrators will resume hiring for other schools, Marsh
> said, with the hope that all hiring is complete by
> mid-July.

Yuck. Your reward for being a good teacher is that you may be
moved from your school to an under-performing school? And
your reward for having low test scores is that they move you
to a higher-performing school? What a way to encourage the
teachers. Where's the union???

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