Over at Think Progress Robert Gordon weighs-in on the New York teacher tenure debate:
Test scores should not count for everything, but this law says they may count for nothing. The law broadly bars consideration of “student performance data” at all.
A prohibition on using relevant data is something out of the Bush Administration’s EPA. It is, to quote a progressive editorial page, “an absurd ban that does a disservice to the state’s millions of public school students.”
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