Stand For Children's Hefty Haul
The rush to revamp tenure rules and reform performance evaluations for Illinois' teachers slowed down a bit this month. At the first hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Education Reform, Chairman Kim Lightford (D-Maywood) told her colleagues that she was in no major hurry to shepherd through the so-called Performance Counts Act (PDF), a controversial package crafted by education advocacy organizations Advance Illinois and Stand for Children Illinois (SFC), among others. (We profiled the platform here.)
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