When you read this "NY Times" article note that these facts are missing: "Bloomberg, tried to deflect blame by erroneously accusing the union of putting on the table at the last minute a two-year "sunset" clause that he said would have rendered the evaluation system toothless.
"A similar sunset clause is included in more than 90 percent of the 681 approved evaluation plans across the state, and even State Education Commissioner John King acknowledged that it was mentioned in earlier conversations with the DOE and included in the DOE's draft application that the DOE asked the state to review. [See "State ed commish reads DOE the riot act" on page 4 of http://www.uft.org/.]"
"For the mayor to say we brought it up at the last minute, he's lying," Mulgrew told the Delegate Assembly.
"A similar sunset clause is included in more than 90 percent of the 681 approved evaluation plans across the state, and even State Education Commissioner John King acknowledged that it was mentioned in earlier conversations with the DOE and included in the DOE's draft application that the DOE asked the state to review. [See "State ed commish reads DOE the riot act" on page 4 of http://www.uft.org/.]"
"For the mayor to say we brought it up at the last minute, he's lying," Mulgrew told the Delegate Assembly.