Teachers will NOT face termination of their contracts simply because of low CEI's. That's the word from Rena Honea of Alliance-AFT. She sent me a copy of a memo from Arnold Viramontes, DISD chief of staff, saying that contracts WILL...
Alliance-AFT says it's filing a grievance against DISD because it is not renewing contracts for teachers with low CEI's. The "Classroom Effectiveness Index" was never supposed to be used to terminate teachers, Rena Honea of Alliance-AFT said this afternoon. More...
... I guess it's OK to use CEIs to not renew their contracts. That's what's being done. The district has identified 580 teachers who must improve or not have their contracts renewed. Teachers targeted are on a growth plan or...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** See, the thing about these CEI's is that they're constructed so that the district average moves each year, meaning there are always going to be teachers in the bottom quintile. Also, the...
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** District students honor MLK and have both optimism and skepticism re: Obama. ** A report out of the San Antonio paper says the new Texas growth model for NCLB is modeled, in...
More than 1,200 Dallas public school employees received bonuses in their monthly paychecks today, the first ones handed out through a new effort to reward workers for boosting student achievement. The bonuses ranged from several hundred dollars for non-classroom workers...
Wanted to circle back around to the termination case of Kimball math teacher Sharon Toussaint. This case was supposed to be about using teacher CEI's to show them the door, but Education Commish Robert Scott ran a trick play. Toussaint...
This would be bigger news on this blog if not for that other little news event we've been wrestling with over here. But here's the lowdown: State Education Commissioner Robert Scott says DISD was wrong to terminate Sharon Toussaint, the...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Mr. Teacher's school cancels recess for the rest of the year because dodgeball isn't on the TAKS. ** The Eduwonkette wonders why we don't judge schools like we judge heart...
Earlier we told you about former Kimball High math teacher Sharon Toussaint, who was one of a number of teachers fired in the latest round of reconstitution. Toussaint, you may recall, is fighting her termination which she contends -- and...
We got the documents relating to the firing of teacher Sharon Toussaint, specifically the Hearing Examiner's decision, the board's decision to terminate and her Petition to state Education Secretary Robert Scott. The documents are interesting to goobers like me who...
Ah yes, the elusive black box "Classroom Effectiveness Index" is back in the news. Since we first started writing about these fuzzy CEI scores last fall they've taken on more and more significance within the district. Primarily, they're an important...
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