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In an academic year marked by a pandemic and poor academic performance, students and teachers shouldn’t face penalties for poor results on standardized tests, two Broward legislators say. Unlike last year, when the state canceled all standardized testing due to COVID-19, students would still take the exams, under a bill filed by freshman Rep. Robin Bartleman, D-Weston, and veteran Sen. Perry ...

Pay-for-performance it is student performance in particular. >> correct. paul: graduate rates and test for reading and math. thats what youre talking about? >> yet. paul: they want seniority to determine pay. >> is in virginia you have them sing actually cant consider anything but seniority for layoffs. in denver, a big sticking point was whether or not you would give bonuses for better student performance. so i think the teachers unions at the end of the day, they want to be protected. they wan...

Pay-for-performance it is student performance in particular. >> correct. paul: graduate rates and test for reading and math. thats what youre talking about? >> yet. paul: they want seniority to determine pay. >> is in virginia you have them sing actually cant consider anything but seniority for layoffs. in denver, a big sticking point was whether or not you would give bonuses for better student performance. so i think the teachers unions at the end of the day, they want to be protected. they wan...

They all face deportation. ainsley, over to you. ainsley: thank you so much. a trustee of the university of pennsylvania. and he decided to resign in protest of the schools treatment to another professor amy wax. she a law professor who lost her first year classes. theres her picture, after speaking out about black student performance. in a new op-ed about his resignation, levy says this points to a bigger problem across college campuses. writing, quote: nobody in the university community has in...

On that promise, a decree such as that appears to have simply produced cheating and gaming. and thats not new. and its not just a problem at the v.a. anyone whos watched "the wire" knows what happens all too often when big city police departments announce quota for crime reduction. stats get juked. >> juking the stats. >> excuse me? >> making robberies into larcenies, making rapes disappear. you juke the stats and joirs become colonels. >> that sort of thing has happened in school system after s...

Student performance have instead led to cheating scandals. none of this is an excuse for deception and malfeasance, and anyone that willfully engaged in that behavior should be held to account and punished, no matter the political fallout. but let us not lose sight of the fact that we have more veterans needing more care than we have in a generation. so when people start asking the question, who broke the v.a., the prime suspect, it seems to me, is 13 years of war. joining me now, senator bernie...

Year so students were in class on saturday. administrators are worried about student performance. >> the biggest impact is going to be on our state testing towards the end of the year. we do that in may. >> students say it wasnt so bad. for some students, it was probably fun. art students and band using the day to go on field trips they missed because of the bad weather. all right. after a raucous weekend, those still able to stand in places like new orleans and rio are entering the stretch ru...

Proposals. arizonas jan brewer rebrand pay for performance funding, something the state rejected last year. brewers new plan would tie a percentage of the funding the districts get from the state to student performance on standardized tests. teachers cant stand that idea in general, folks. alaskas sean parnell surprised some in his state by coming out in support of a constitutional amendment that would end the states ban on spending public funds for private and religious schools. meanwhile, in s...

Look at these two places and say what were they doing? >> right. >> if you ask that question, its very clear both of these states are places that, one, invested in teacher effectiveness. they really prioritized that by putting in place doesnt pay structures that recognized and rewarded the best teachers in the classroom. they put in place rigorous teacher evaluation systems and invested heavily in professional development. the second thing both of these jurisdictions did is put in place high sta...

This seems excessive and abusive. the fact that the school board needs to study this is really painful. what are they studying? apologize. >> i get it, harris. you dont like it. >> sorry. i feel strongly. you taped into the mommy gene. >> i didnt think you would take it seriously. >> i am a parent too and i forgot about it. >> it is a lightning round. >> all right, i deserved that. >> david, i noy it is hard to make jokes after -- i know it is hard to make jokes after that. do you think the kids...