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Article: TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN' STATE EDUCATION REFORM PACKAGE PRODUCES ODD ALLIANCES.(THE CAP TIMES)
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- November 11, 2009
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Byline: SUSAN TROLLER The Capital Times stroller@madison.com
The package of education reform bills just signed by Gov. Jim Doyle featured an unusual lineup of friends and foes, with politics making some strange bedfellows.
The state's largest teachers union, Wisconsin Education Association Council, reversed its long-standing opposition to using student test scores to evaluate teacher performance. The Wisconsin Association of School Boards switched positions, too. In the past, the school board association supported the use of student test data in doing teacher evaluations; this time the group was opposed.
The Milwaukee Association of Commerce, ...