The California Teachers Association supported a bill to make it harder to get perverts out of the classroom. The California Teachers Association supported a bill to get rid of real testing of students. Why? Because the teachers were being graded and pay raises partially based on the poor quality of the test results. Get rid of the tests and you do not have bad test results. Can anyone remember the last time the California Teachers Association supported a Republican?
Can anyone name a teacher in a union district is allowed ot teach without harassment and forced to pay money if they do not want they dollars going to radicals to use for political purposes. The believes you should not be allowed to tech unless you pay a bribe—what about you, what do you think about all this?
“The CTA and other elements of the education establishment loathe the testing/API process because it holds them publicly accountable and raises the possibility of teachers being graded on the achievements of students, or lack thereof.
Buchanan’s Assembly Bill 375, meanwhile, would make some largely cosmetic changes to the process for firing teachers who abuse children, but could, critics say, make the process even more Byzantine than it is now.”
Dan Walters: Two California school bills show teacher union power
By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee, 10/3/13
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The rationale for the bill, also supported by the CTA’s staunch ally, state schools Superintendent Tom Torlakson, was that the state is implementing new Common Core academic standards and that testing will be realigned with Common Core. But education reformers fear, with good cause, that the API and parental rights will be eroded.
The issue was sparked by the case of a sexually abusive teacher in Los Angeles who was essentially paid off, rather than fired. Last year, the Senate passed a bill to make firing such teachers easier, but the CTA killed the bill in the Assembly, saying it would violate teachers’ due process rights, and this year offered AB 375 as a substitute.
Both bills demonstrate the immense influence that the teachers union enjoys in the Legislature and the lengths to which ambitious politicians will go to endear themselves to the powerful union.
