Edwonk: Kindergarten Cop vs. CTA

Found an interesting post over at Eduwonk.com that makes an important point about Prop 74: Kindergarten Cop vs. CTA

BUT, as McDonnel argues, increasing the amount of time before teachers get tenure isn't going to produce the kind of increased performance accountability, better teaching, or other reform many California schools need. Tenure is often a red herring and conservative hobby-horse in education policy debates, but a look at teacher quality indicators, dismissals, and performance across states with and without tenure suggests it's not the real problem. More important, the Governator's antagonistic stance towards teachers on both the tenure and school funding issues undermines his proposals to more closely link teacher pay to performance or reward teachers in hard-to-staff schools, ideas that do have promise to improve accountability and help attract to the profession the kind of high-quality new teachers California desperately needs."

So not only is Prop 74 useless and ineffective, its dooming Arnold's other policy initiatives. Great.