How many times did Malloy say that student performance would only be 22% of the evaluation? Only every town hall meeting. Now the question is, did he knowingly lie at every stop or was he duped as well?
No applause for implementation of education reforms | The Connecticut Mirror: "Some panel members argued that using multiple student tests will ensure the evaluation is an accurate measure of performance.
"Then include it in the 22.5 percent," said Palmer, which represents about a quarter of the 50,000 teachers in the state.
Palmer was backed by Mary Loftus Levine, executive director of the other teachers' union, the Connecticut Education Association.
"We said 'No' to this... We are moving in a very different direction then what we agreed to," she said. Loftus Levine is also a member of the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council. "It is a problem," she said.
Attempting to diffuse the situation on what started as a celebratory day for educators, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said there clearly was "diversity in opinion of what we agreed to."
He asked the panel to devote their next meeting to resolve this, "while we review the videotape" of what was agreed upon by the unions last January.
If no resolution can be achieved, he said, the decision is ultimately up to the State Board of Education to decide on by July 1.
"That's how issues get resolved that cannot be resolved here," he said."
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