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Never forget that state superintendent @CTruittNCDPI schemed with #PEPSC Chair Patrick Miller and @edstateboard_nc member Jill Camnitz to prevent @EducationNC from collecting teacher feedback on the merit pay proposal because she wouldn’t have control of the responses. #nced 
At the same meeting, Truitt’s Chief of Staff Shelby Armentrout said “If teachers come out against it then it’ll be dead on arrival.”
Don’t ever doubt the power of your educator voice. 🗣️🍎 #nced #ncpol
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Don’t ever doubt the power of your educator voice. 🗣️🍎 #nced #ncpol
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Speaking of fear of teachers, next month Truitt and the Belk Foundation are holding an event to try to schmooze Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools into volunteering to pilot merit pay. eventbrite.com/e/the-belk-fou…
teaching ≠ incarceration
At this week's #PEPSC Commission meeting, a member of the group tasked with moving NC to a merit pay system of licensing and compensating teachers referred to the career of the traditional classroom teacher as "incarceration."
#nced #ncpol
At this week's #PEPSC Commission meeting, a member of the group tasked with moving NC to a merit pay system of licensing and compensating teachers referred to the career of the traditional classroom teacher as "incarceration."
#nced #ncpol
With all due respect to Dr. Sam Houston (CEO of The North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center) and his distinguished education resume, he hasn't worked as a classroom teacher in 40+ years and it shows.
Dr. Houston's cringeworthy comment effectively illustrates the problem with having no currently practicing traditional classroom teachers at the table when policy that will most directly impact classroom teachers is being developed.
Today the NC State Board of Education will hear a recommendation from the #PEPSC Commission to approve a broad framework which would pave the way for switching all North Carolina teachers from an experience-based pay scale to merit pay. #nced #ncpol
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This highly experimental move would make NC the first state in the country to stop compensating teachers based on their commitment to a career in the classroom and instead determine their pay through standardized test scores, evaluations, surveys, and "to be determined"
What's being presented today is the culmination of a process which began in late 2018 in closed "Human Capital Roundtable" meetings which likely violated state law. Participants were required to follow "Vegas Rules," and steps were taken to hide communication from the public.
Here’s your regular reminder that the NC Pathways to Excellence merit pay proposal which is currently making its way toward the State Board of Education was crafted in secret Human Capital Roundtable meetings which likely violated state law. #nced #PEPSC #ncpol
At issue is whether the Human Capital Roundtable, which was made up of state employees and appointed officials and conducted business on drafting what it hopes will become state law during the work day, meets the statutory definition of a public body.
I've consulted with multiple attorneys who specialize in this area of the law and all of them believe that it does and that a judge would likely agree.
If you saw my public records release yesterday you already know a thing or two about @BestNCorg and how that organization and its CEO are working to pass a merit pay plan that financially benefits @SASSoftware through major expansion of the use of EVAAS. #nced #ncpol #pepsc
BEST NC holds an annual event called the Innovation Lab which in the past has been framed as an opportunity for educators and education stakeholders to brainstorm solutions to some of the problems facing education in our state.
As you can see from the agenda, this year's Innovation Lab is 100% a lobbying event pushing the Pathways to Excellence merit pay plan.
Just in case the conflict of interest wasn't obvious enough, it's even being held on the SAS campus.
Just in case the conflict of interest wasn't obvious enough, it's even being held on the SAS campus.
Today's merit pay public records release is about the cozy relationship between @SASsoftware and @BESTNCorg, two driving forces behind the Pathways to Excellence teacher merit pay proposal.
#nced #ncpol #pepsc #ExperienceMatters4NC
#nced #ncpol #pepsc #ExperienceMatters4NC
SAS Software was founded by NC's richest individual James Goodnight. He continues to serve as its CEO and his wife Ann Goodnight is the company's Director of Community Relations.
SAS produces EVAAS, the controversial value-added software which claims to be able to determine exactly how much value a teacher adds to a student's learning by using a secret algorithm to analyze student performance on end-of-year standardized testing.
Today’s merit public records release is about the Human Capital Roundtable (HCR), the group that created and spent two years working on the merit pay plan behind closed doors.
#nced #ncpol #ncga #pepsc
#nced #ncpol #ncga #pepsc
Under the facilitation of @srebeducation, HCR began meeting in early 2019, not long after the NCGA created PEPSC. There was no public notice of HCR meetings, no recordings posted, and no agendas, minutes or any other documentation made publicly available.
In early 2021 the Human Capital Roundtable made a presentation to the State Board of Education which proposed seven levels of licensure and language indicating teachers had to demonstrate effectiveness to move up in the model.
