http://www.t-g.com/story/1596182.html
"Race to the Top" school guidelines approved
Friday, December 18, 2009
By JOHN I. CARNEY ~ jcarney@t-g.com
Bedford County Board of Education, meeting Thursday night, approved a memorandum of understanding with the state to comply with the guidelines of President Obama's "Race To The Top" grant program.
The program will evaluate teachers and principals based on criteria such as student test scores, and make tenure more dependent on the results. "This was somewhat controversial a month ago," said School Superintendent Ed Gray.
Now, however, Gray said it's likely that conditions similar to those in the memorandum will be enacted into state law during a special legislative session which Gov. Phil Bredesen and Lieutenant Gov. Ron Ramsey have called for next month; board members said it was better to approve the memorandum now and have a chance at Race To The Top grants, since the school system will likely end up having to adopt those rules anyway...
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3 comments:
Is the bold you or the article?
Bolded text is part of the article that I felt was of importance. Delaware's own Legislature will embark on another session in January and is already poised to enact more "education reform."
Will Delaware school districts find themselves eyeing the same future as Tennessee's?
I ask because agreeing to a bill based on what legislators might do or are likely to do, is a bad basis for a decision. Gray and his board are basically saying: we are going to have laws that make us do these things anyway so what's the big deal.
They are all cowards, in my opinion, of course.
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