Florida Teacher Suspended For Rejecting Evaluator

The St. Petersburg (FL) Times (11/14, Sokol) reports, "A veteran teacher was suspended Thursday for rejecting the evaluator chosen for him under a Gates-funded initiative that is revolutionizing the way the Hillsborough County School District assesses its teachers. School and union officials believe this is the first such act of defiance under Empowering Effective Teachers, a complex system of mentoring and evaluation funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." The teacher "said he refused to schedule a peer observation because he feels the evaluator...is not qualified to judge him."