Why does the New York state legislature oppose using data in any way that would identify ineffective teachers?
Ever wonder how effective your child's teacher is? Officials in Albany would rather you didn't know. At least that's the lesson one has to take from their refusal to allow data systems to match students to teachers, though doing so would help the state compete for a pot of perhaps hundreds of millions of federal dollars.
Unions' political interests stand in the way of improving our schools and easing New York taxpayers' burdens, says Marcus A. Winters, a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute.
States must develop data sets that track the individual performance of students over time and match those students to their teachers. Unfortunately, New York has deliberately refused to take that step.
Worse, along with its refusal to improve its data system, the state has kept cities from adopting reforms:
When New York City hinted that it would use its own data system to evaluate teachers based on student test scores, the state legislature passed a law banning the practice...
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