http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011103300075
Early Wednesday the house passed a bill that would increase per pupil spending on education in the state of Minnesota. But they took out the options of teacher tenure and their striking ability and opted to make students test scores a much bigger part of how schools are evaluated and more so the teachers. Giving more aid to those schools that did well and, offer more vouchers to students in districts that scored poorly. All of this is not good news to future teachers. We want to get away from the fact that we test our kids too much and put a lot of pressure on these tests. Now the state wants to reward those schools that do well and punish the ones that don't hold up well. Its just making the achievement gap bigger between our best schools and the worst, as we saw in class. We need to make sure that even our worst schools are still getting adequate funding. How else are they going to get better?
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