CT News Junkie | Teachers Rally At Capitol; Still Unhappy With Malloy’s Plan: "“It wasn’t the best way to open a wide-ranging discussion on education reform,” Jason Poppa, a teacher from Bridgeport, said. “But the remark is typical. Teachers are being vilified nationally.”
Poppa said he’s still not convinced the revised version of the bill is going in the right direction because it continues to rely on number crunching and test taking, instead of critical thinking and group learning.
The Education Committee’s revised version turns tying evaluations to tenure and certification into a year-long study, lowers the number of low performing schools the state can take over, reduces the three-level certification structure to two, and establishes a new “distinguished educator designation” for highly qualified and experienced teachers.
David Olio, an English teacher at South Windsor High School, said opponents like to say teachers want to keep the status quo, but “tying money to a job as a carrot is the status quo of capitalism.”"
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