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Published: Monday, 15 June 2015 21:06

A message from Frank Flynn, RIFTHP President:

 

This week the Senate Education Committee and House HEW Committee passed bills related to charter schools. These bills S0087 Sub A and H5160 Sub A are critically important to the future of traditional public schools. As you are aware the continued expansion of charter schools has had a detrimental impact on our school budgets; in some cases forcing districts to eliminate programs, cut staff, and reduce opportunities for students. The continued expansion of charters, particularly Mayoral Academies, will create parallel school districts resulting in a costly and unnecessary duplication of programs and services.

Senate Bill S0087 Sub A would freeze the local share of charter spending at the FY2015 level and require local approval of any new charter or expansion of an existing school for one year. We are working to make the local approval process permanent.  House Bill H 5160 Sub A would require local council and school committee approval for the creation of a new charter or expansion of an existing charter of each sending district.  In addition, the bill creates a one year hiatus on any application for new charters.

The pro charter movement has been actively campaigning to defeat these bills. We need to mobilize our members to reach out to their local Reps and Senators and ask them to support us by supporting these bills. Many of you are currently dealing with the severe budgetary impact charters have had on your districts others have been threatened by their expansion into your district. We must do all we can to stop the expansion of these publically funded private schools.

Please forward the following link:    Support Local Approval of Charter Schools

Ask your members to reach out to their Senators and Representatives. This is an extremely important and time sensitive issue. We expect that these bills will be heard early next week. Please forward to your members as soon as possible. Thank you for your assistance. 

 

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Published: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:43

Teacher Evaluation

This year’s teacher evaluation timeline and handbook is available for review on the district’s educator evaluator page . It is imperative that teachers who are scheduled to be evaluated this year familiarize themselves with the evaluation timelines and guidelines. There appears to be some confusion amongst teachers and administrators as to who will be evaluated during the 2014-15 school year.    Any teacher who received an “Effective” or a “Highly Effective” final effectiveness rating (FER) for his/her 2013-14 evaluation will not be evaluated during the 2014-15 school year.  The only exception, is if a teacher changed certification areas for this school year.  All teachers, regardless of FER, are required to have a beginning of the year and an end of the year conference with his/her administrator.  

The group of teachers who are scheduled to be formally evaluated this school year are:

  • All non-tenured teachers.
  • All support staff.
  • Teachers who do not have a FER for the 2013-14 school year.
  • Teachers who received either an “Ineffective” or “Developing” rating for the 2013-14 school year.
  • Teachers working under the same certification but whose roles require a change of evaluation type (i.e. classroom teacher to support professional (or) support professional to classroom teacher).


 

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