Unions seeking halt to New Mexico teacher evaluations - POLITICO

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tico reports on the lawsuit that teachers have filed against the state's teacher evaluation system, which bases 50% of a teacher's evaluation on test scores:The American Federation of Teachers New Mexico and the Albuquerque Teachers Federation filed a lawsuit in February against the state education department and its education secretary, Hanna Skandera, arguing that the evaluation system relies too heavily on student test scores and violates teachers' constitutional rights.  Read this and see my comment at the end

Susan Lee Schwartz, reporting  the News on "The Privatization of Public Education