Since the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act, there has been great stress on educators to ensure that their students are prepared for standardized tests. Public school children must take standardized tests under the Act, as a way for analysts to measure how well a school is performing.
However, some teachers are not too keen on being judged based on their students’ performance on standardized tests. According to The New York Times, New York City’s teachers’ union is planning to request a restraining order that would stop academic officials from releasing reports that rank thousands of the city’s educators based on how much progress their students made on standardized tests.
The United Federation of Teachers plans to go to the State Supreme Court in Manhattan in order to get the restraining order.
"[The New York City school system] wants to make public a group of reports based on these faulty tests, reports that also feature other incomplete and inaccurate student data. Parents have been misled enough," said union President Michael Mulgrew in a statement.
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