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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McDuffie has:

Serious conflicts of interest around sports betting oversight
	•	Campaign finance irregularities under active review
	•	Donor base that creates accountability problems
	•	A pattern of looking out for business interests over residents

This IS relevant, whether you want it to be or not. 
It’s ok to post fake news about IMPACT and the WTU teachers but not REAL news about a candidate?

If IMPACT is working tell me about all the gains? Why are many 12th graders on a 1st grade reading level?

No teacher in their right might has said no evaluations, we want a replacement. Perhaps one like MCPS. [/quote]

This thread is about the candidates' positions on Education topics, so yes IMPACT and WTU are relevant (but I'm confused what you mean about fake news, feel free to explain) and banging away about Kenyan's general aura of self-dealing/corruption is a side topic.  The whole "his kids go to a private school" argument, while circumstantial, is more on topic.

There's a separate thread in Metro Politics where the rest can be dumped.[/quote]

That claim doesn’t hold up, and here’s the receipts:

DCPS actually commissioned American University’s School of Education to do an independent review of IMPACT -and the results were not flattering. The AU findings showed overwhelmingly negative feelings about IMPACT among teachers, who described it as creating an atmosphere of fear, distrust, and competition, especially in low-performing schools.  That’s not a few complainers. That’s a documented pattern across interviews and surveys that DCPS paid for.

And then there’s the racial bias piece - Black teachers received two and a half times as many score deductions as white teachers, and more than twice as many as Hispanic/Latino teachers, regardless of the race of the evaluator.  So the system is producing biased outcomes even when you control for evaluator bias. That’s a structural problem, not a performance problem.

Oh, and DCPS tried to sit on these findings. The WTU had to formally petition DCPS just to get them to release the AU data, even though DCPS had already received the early results.  If IMPACT were as great as they claim, why hide the independent research you commissioned yourself?

DCPS absolutely cherry-picks which data they publicize. That’s the issue.

So McDuffie agrees with scamming teachers and parents. As long as he can pretend to make it look good. You have PE teachers making 137k, doing nothing but letting your kids run wild in the gym but sure that’s ’fair.’ [/quote]

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