The Los Angeles Times (10/21, Song, Felch) reports that "the New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores" on Friday, a move that "the city's teachers union said it would fight." Following "series of Los Angeles Times stories in August that analyzed 6,000 elementary school teachers' effectiveness in raising" student test scores, New York City education officials had initially said "that they intended to keep [such] sensitive information private." But, they later said that "they could not find an exemption to state records laws that would preclude disclosure." Experts say that releasing teacher scores in New York City will raise the likelihood of similar action nationwide.
The New York Times (10/21, Otterman) reports that "the reports include the names of teachers and their schools." The Times adds that last year, school principals "were instructed to use" value-added reports "in teacher evaluations and tenure decisions. But" in the past, education officials had "refused to make the reports public because of an agreement with the teachers' union and because of concerns that their release could compromise student privacy."
The New York Daily News (10/21, Kolodner, Monahan) reports that teachers union "officials will go to court as early as Thursday to block the city Education Department from releasing the teachers' names and ratings." The Daily News notes that "Education experts have criticized the plan to release the rankings, citing flaws in the tests and in the reports' methodology."
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