From the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS:
…The effort to create an effective and fair way to rate and improve teachers is laudable, especially if it can provide a path for teachers to improve. Most professionals want to know how well they’re doing, and to fix the things they don’t do well.
What concerns us is that the [Piccola] bill effectively exempts charter-school teachers from such evaluations. The Legislature wants to give charter schools and teachers as much flexibility as possible. But keeping them out of that evaluation process does no favors for the charter schools or their students.
In fact, recent Stanford University research that tracked charter-school performance against noncharter public schools found too many charters lagging in math and reading scores…
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