Why does governor snyder hate teachers

Snyder signaled his support for the legislation in a statement released early Thursday. The district's debt will be fully repaid and the new funding will be used to support teaching kids in their classrooms, instead of being diverted to pay off decades of legacy costs," he said in the statement. But the city's teachers disagree. On Thursday morning the Detroit Federation of Teachers was promoting a petition on its website calling on Snyder to veto the bills, calling the package "punitive, petty and dangerous for the people of Detroit.

In a statement, the union said the package that passed the legislature "does not meet the needs of students and attacks educators.

At the same time, they're also trying to be the teachers And it's impossible," Emmer said. The midterm elections are almost two years away, but Republicans are already using the issue to soften the ground in key swing districts in blue states such as New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey and Virginia, where Democratic leaders have clashed among themselves and with unions over reopenings.

In California, parents demanding schools reopen have sued Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is himself embroiled in a fight with the unions, while the city of San Francisco has sued its own school district to restart in-person learning.

The American Action Network, a deep-pocketed conservative group, began putting up billboards and launching digital ads and robocalls last week in a dozen congressional districts represented by vulnerable Democrats. The ads highlight how much money each member received in campaign contributions from teachers unions and calls on them to back a House GOP bill to provide full federal funding only to schools open for in-person learning. A recent study from Brown University found that "politics, far more than science, shaped school district decision-making," with districts in more politically conservative areas and ones with weaker teachers unions more likely to offer in-person instruction, regardless of the severity of the pandemic locally.

On Friday, the Biden administration released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for schools advising that teacher vaccinations are not a necessity for schools to reopen, so long as other Covid mitigation efforts are in place. The guidance comes after an earlier CDC study on schools in rural Wisconsin, which showed minimal coronavirus spread linked to schools. The report has been highlighted by Republicans as evidence that in-person learning is safe, though others have said it does not provide a direct comparison to schools in denser environments.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who runs the nation's second-largest teachers union and is a member of the Democratic National Committee, hailed the new guidance and said teachers want to get back to work as much as parents want them to — as long as it's safe for everyone.

All corporate prostitute jerks. Pathetic and sad. Vote Fitzgerald — our last hope to keep public education in Ohio. Mandates were handed down. Teachers were not to ask questions. They were to follow directions. Yea, this is democracy! He has told out hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare. Example, Bridgewater Associates.

The owner earns 2. Yet Dannel gave our taxpayer money, million dollars to this hedge fund corporation. And for what purpose? To move from Stamford to Westport, 12 miles away. That saved a whopping 70 million dollars and cut the benefits to thousands of struggling teacher retirees. But I CT should definitely be considered. LOL they are only the worst for union hacks. They are the best for everything else. Everything Democrats touch gets worse.

Do you live in Kansas? We had a surplus before Brownback came in. You forgot someone: Paul Lepage, current governor of Maine and hopefully on his way out. He hates everyone and is attempting to change that image for this election year, but when you really do hate everyone other than rich repubs , it is pretty hard to hide.

I also live in PA. The voters have chosen this repugnant path for this state; their votes are perhaps a reflection of the quality of education in this state. This map of Michigan struck a nerve with me. I thought that since this is an education policy website, elementary-level geography skills would be employed in producing state maps.

Either way, I come from a family of Upper Michigan public educators, and agree wholeheartedly with the premise of this site — Governor Snyder is as blatantly anti-public education as they come. He sees education as an opportunity for private sector profit for his billionaire friends to monopolize. These Governors must bust the Common Core unions. I accept whatever methods they must use to do that. Those folks, together with lapdog mostly Republican state legislators are as well-funded and determined as any union ever was.

You want to get rid of unions, so you advocate hurting little kids to do that! Please, you cannot forget TN gov. Haslam gave a blank check to corporate charter schools. Jeb Bush visits TN regularly to advise on education schemes. I live in PA where there is an overt attack on public education. There is a belief here in our GOP controlled legislature that privatization and therefore competition for student enrollment is the answer to all of our education problems.

Michigan is the same way. We have even had to battle to keep the precious art the Detroit Institute of Art has. Only the wealthy matter. It is very sad. I do not understand how anybody can support this attack on education.

What about Chris Christie? He is destroying teachers and education in N. The majority of the Private schools that are funded by the school district are absolutely corporations. I have seen them on campuses — many teachers have told me they work 10 to 11 hours a day with only 30 minutes off for lunch.

They then go home and grade all the papers, lesson plans, etc. Rick Snyder proposed sweeping reforms to teacher tenure and other aspects of the state's educational system this morning. In his speech, Snyder emphasized a performance- and results-based system for many aspects of the educational system, including funding, teacher compensation and changes to tenure. In his proposal to change teacher tenure, Snyder outlined a model rewarding multiple years of successful teaching.

He said teachers who showed continuous growth for three years in a five-year probationary period would be awarded tenure. However, tenured teachers who were found ineffective for one year could start losing tenure status and if they were ineffective for two straight school years, teachers could be replaced.

Snyder called on state universities to improve their teaching programs and said state teaching certification tests should further prepare teachers leaving college for the job. He said teachers deserve more recognition in terms of compensation, saying the teacher pay system needs to evolve from compensation based on degrees attained and time working as a teacher to one based on performance.

If anything, I would hope in particular the teachers themselves would help solve this problem. He said he did not want to lift the cap on charter schools entirely, but did want to lift the cap on charter schools in districts with failing schools. Snyder said he wants to encourage high-performing charter schools and hold them to the same standard that he would hold public schools. He said all school districts should allow the program and families should have the freedom to choose the district they want.

Snyder also proposed changes to the way intermediate school districts operate, saying he wanted to give intermediate school districts the ability to bid on non-instructional services in any school district. Among other reforms proposed by Snyder were anti-bullying legislation and increased flexibility in school programs to help high-achieving students be challenged. Kyle Feldscher covers K education for AnnArbor. He can be reached at kylefeldscher annarbor.

What will entice the best and brightest into a profession where you can expect to be blamed for students not achieving state goals, you can expect cuts to pay and benefits, and you are thought of less than the guy that hits, throws or kicks a ball.

Add to that Snyder's wanting to make rules that judge performance and it is the students who will suffer the most. What if parents are absent much of the time from the child's life due to having to work or a broken homes? Lack of parental involvement has been shown to have averse effects on student achievement. Doing anything to cause the hording of excellence does not seem like a scenario that you would want to encourage.

How is a teachers performance not tied to their own education? And if continuing your own training is not a way to improve performance, what is?

So I guess you did not read the letter Live with Art. Since you completely ignore the Early Childhood and the k-3 initiatives. As to teacher education and performance, I know a teacher who took an online degree in culinary management, a master's degree. They got their step increase. I have no clue what that had to do with teaching 2nd grade, but the district paid the step increase.

So tell me how they relate, please? While we are at it, lets fire ineffective legislators and governors as well.

Let's set up a standard by which all elected officials must adhere to. Then, after they have met the qualifications to be hired in the first place - the correct training and the certification, have them evaluated by a separate committee each year.

Then, if they don't meet the qualifications, then fire them after 2 years. Just because they are voted in, doesn't mean they are effective in their profession. It's time the governor met his own standards. And the metrics are? What do you consider the metrics BioWheels? Balancing the budget? Not violating the laws of the state or federal government?

Give me your metrics. I am glad to note the number of responses that this topic has generated. However, there are two areas of human activity where the individual is responsible for the outcome. The two areas are 1. Education, and 2. If we understand the Learning Process, it begins with the attitude of the student. We need to prepare the student to make sure that he understands his responsibility and his role in the learning process. There are ways to establish this self-motivation, and involve student fully in his own learning.

Learning should prepare the student to think for himself in the area he had received his learning. The testing essentially must involve a testing of the capacity of the student to think on his own and apply his knowledge in a reasoning process to verify the validity of a statement or of a thought, or of an idea.

The Governor has not displayed a basic understanding of what could be named Education and I am pleased to announce that he has failed for lack of critical thinking. He is not a thinker. He could be good actor. He will get a better pay by choosing the lucrative profession called Entertainment.

BhavanaJagat - I disagree, I had teachers who spent time getting me interested and motivated. Without them, I would probably be a high school graduate at best. Young students need inspiration, and encouragement. The motivation comes over time, as they find that there are wonderful and interesting things to learn. Great teachers do this. And the best of them teach K-3, that is where the flame need to catch fire.

RE: teachers performance. I agree with macjont -- regarding determining a teacher's success using test scores. This should not be done -- there is so many factors that go into teaching and to base a teacher's ability on test scores alone is not appropriate. There are those students who do very well, learn well but freeze when it comes to taking a test -- I do feel that a look at the tenure process is important -- there are some teachers that achieve tenure that should not have done so -- and then, it takes forever to get them out of the system.

Who does the evaluations of the teachers? Who does the evaluations of principals, and the rest of the staff? Every student deserves an effective and competent teacher. Thank you Governor Snyder for putting the students needs first! Cutting education funding is putting students needs first? Give me a break! Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be TEACHERS Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such My sons were too smart to follow my advice that they become teachers.

They thought Willie Nelson a bit smarter than their old man. DonBee- The comments to these articles is scratched. Put a penny on the needle of that turntable. Detroit classrooms, compared to Ann Arbor, are more a nightmare than a dream, surely. The problem is that Cash and defenders of the status quo can't dream of a government that respects children enough to demand excellence, or of a union that is not ashamed of it policy of expending unlimited resources to protect the most incompetent teachers.

Respecting children? A cut in education funding does anything but respect children. It seems like I'm seeing a lot of people share the dissatisfaction with judging teachers' performance, and a lot of people seem to think that you can't do so accurately or fairly. So what is the yardstick by which teachers' performance is measured?

I mean, they ARE staff, right? We do all agree that they should do a good job, I believe. So there HAS to be some way to assess a teacher's performance. I'm assuming that all the people against this performance-based idea aren't saying that once a teacher is hired, they stay unless they sexually abuse a student.

So what IS the way that you measure a teacher's performance? It is not true. Outcomes can be defined. Ways of achieving those outcomes can also be defined.

It is not easy but it can be accomplished. One must eventually choose to be part of the future lest one be run over by it. Did it ever occur to you that there is no adequate yardstick. This American obsession with quantification, measurement, etc. It is the unquantifiable that lies at the heart of most of what we try to quantify. More on this in another comment.

Why not evaluate 'ineffective' teachers by the same standard as Wall Street applied not long ago to top investment executives who did so much to help instigate the economic meltdown: Give them HUGE bonuses! That'll teach 'em…. A fact free, name calling liberal rant. If you want to provoke thought, a well reasoned, article on what is going on without the name calling would interest me. My daughter is about to become a math teacher.

My grandmother, uncle, aunt, mother and sister were all teachers. She was going to become a pharmaceutical salesperson, but did math tutoring and loved helping people. People become teachers for that reason. I don't think many teachers sign up because they expect riches or easy times.

The problem, Mr. Snyder, is not with the little people who are trying to help others, it's with the system we have for financing schools. Why is this the only tax we vote on? The higher priced properties are usually owned by older people who have no children in school or by farmers who may have a few children in school but can't afford higher taxes.

The State of Michigan should be the first state to say, we're going to educate our children first! Mr Synder, let's dump that worn-out old corporate mentality of firing people to save money. It's easy, it's simplistic, and in this case, it's stupid.

Hey Huron - The problems you cite with our tax system is why Michigan moved away from funding schools with purely local property taxes back when we adopted Proposal A.

This buffered our schools against the recent bursting of the housing bubble, but hasn't helped as much as might be hoped because state sales tax receipts have dropped with employment levels and Michigan's population. Snyders' plan doesn't fire anyone right now; only those teachers who can't get their students' average achievement to progress by one year per year, for two years in a row would potentially lose their jobs.

It sounds unlikely that your daughter would be one of them, but if it is, she can always fall back on Big Pharma instead, right? You can't improve what you can't measure. I think student achievment is relatively straightforward to assess in core subjects. The question is if they are not doing well, is that a failing of the teacher, the parent s , or both. Though not easy to tease this out at first glance, statistical analyses can find outliers both teachers and districts.

Perhaps process managers can be brought in as well. Obviously, blaming teachers is not the answer and I did not get that impression from Gov. Snyder and giving teachers the tools they need to help students is what we want. I think this outline is an important first step.

I would hope the major players here would step up and participate rather than dig in their heels. It's not perfect on the first pass, but it can and should be attempted. One teacher even told him that he would never amount to anything. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Albert Einstein. I held my breath when I voted for this guy but could not be happier with everything he is doing.

Keep it up Rickster, the public education union folks are singing the blues and that means good things are down the road for our children and the taxpayers. Good Day. And I will work to have others sign. I personally know a couple of dozen non-MEA members who are willing and ready to sign. Dream on cash. The signature requirement won't even be met.

Even the MEA only has so many goons. You are right. People should be held accountable. Teachers that don't teach should be held accountable. Parents that don't parent should be held accountable. People that make reckless remarks such as yours should be held accountable. You need to find the problem before you can fix it. The you can hold people accountable.

Singling out specific groups as the cause of a problem is an old tactic. Doctors and mechanics can tell you that the apparent cause of a problem is not necessarily its root cause. Systemic problems require systemic solutions. If the statistics that measure a teacher's performance are directly related to those things that are under a teacher's control, I am all for these metrics.

Unfortunately they are not. I could not find this quote in the article. We are obviously not teaching science very well. We don't use corelational studies as causal proof. They only hint that further scientifically sound study is required. This is a shotgun approach and not only will it likely result in damage to many peoples careers, it won't create any benefit and is likely to cause harm.

Only 'til July 1st Heck with two or three years, my friends say that if accountability were instituted I wouldn't last two weeks. This annoys me, but it in no way makes me a net taxpayer. I am a longtime tax parasite; perhaps you have another job which requires you to pay more taxes than you are paid. If so, thanks. Wake me up when it is time to retire. Why do teachers even get tenure? They have a union behind them to grieve any wrongdoings against them.

Who else gets a lifetime employment contract after sneaking by for a few years? You can tell which teachers just want to get tenure then put their teaching on auto pilot. Mike, I am a teacher. In total, I studied for twelve years. While earning my MFA and my Ph. After graduating, I worked for six years--teaching, thinking about and improving my teaching, reading and studying to keep up to date, publishing, and so on.

That is, I taught my classes and did research. I met with students beyond the required office hours. I graded, taught, and prepared my lectures, sometimes spending 12 hours a day working. I did not sneak by for tenure. Like most teachers, I earned tenure. And since receiving tenure, I continue to teach, revise my pedagogy, prepare lesson plans, study and keep up to date in my field, write and publish, meet my students beyond the allotted office hours, organize events outside the classroom, serve on committees, answer questions about careers and graduate school, write letters of recommendation, grade, grade, and grade some more, and yes, I continue to work hours a day.

Where is the auto pilot? So here's a problem. I, and my kids, and my students, have benefited from some very amazing schools and some very gifted educators. Both my children were admitted to select colleges U of M and Kalamazoo College , and both have done well there. My former students visit after starting college and commonly remark how well-prepared they felt when they got to college, both academically and in their ability to relate with students of many backgrounds.

These schools have cultures and traditions that have developed over many decades and make them what they are. Just for example, Pioneer HS was just recognized as THE top music high school in the nation for the second time in less than a decade by the Grammy foundation.

Creating a one-size-fits-all plan, which 'fixes' the AAPS as if its problems are similar to those of the Detroit system, has the potential to inadvertently diminish the culture and traditions of schools that currently work amazingly well. This isn't to say that AAPS schools can't be improved, we can always improve. But much of what may be needed at supposedly 'failing' school districts isn't needed here and may unintentionally hurt succeeding schools. Dan - I agree that AAPS does a fine job of educating students, mine did quite well and were very prepared for their collegiate programs.

AAPS does a great job with out accelerated students, an ok job with our average students, but what about our lower performing students? The kids that are having a really tough time meeting the new graduation requirements? We're not doing such a great job there, in fact I would say that we are failing many of these kids. What can we do to boost these kids up?

I agree that not every child is college bound, but I do believe that every child has the right to earn a high school diploma.

Maybe we need to look at 5 years of high school for some kids, who knows We are currently in the process of losing 70 teaching positions for next year, after a similar loss last year. After cutting back year after year, because the School Aid Fund was in deficit, this year we face our biggest cut ever, though the School Aid Fund is in surplus Dan, actually it is about the tax level for the privileged few amongst us who don't want to pay taxes any longer. Dan, Rick and Mike K. The wealthy will still have their exceptional private schools.

To Hell with the rest! Best practices could bring all programs to superior levels. That is NOT their goal!! Dan - agreed, AAPS isn't broken. The debate isn't about whether or not it is broken, it is about state reductions per pupil, and the cost of education to the taxpayers.

This is terrible, people should not be held accountable for their performance. OK, but let's also have the same rule for Governors. Rick, shape up or you're out of here in 18 months.

So far your performance has been decidedly subpar. Deal, if we can fire governors after 2 years for poor performance. Come to think of it, why have to wait two years. Gateway certainly came to regret waiting that long. We don't want to prepare students for assembly line jobs; we want to make teaching an assembly line job.

Anti-bullying legislation does not seem to apply to the Governor or to the emergency managers. It's all about standards. We're all alike. Same needs. Same intellectual and psychological make-up and same baggage. Same interests. Doesn't matter. The grand plan of the state and country is to weed out the chaff and find a few good scientists, a few good mathematicians, a few good IT's and the like so that we can maintain our place as number one in the world economic race.

Everyone else can be minimum wage. Now, if Rick were interested in really educating people instead of training them for college or jobs, then he might be onto something. Roger - It's pretty obvious you didn't read what Snyder actually said in his speech, or even the portions the article quoted. So why is it the headline here?!

Kyle So rather than selecting a headline based on the actual content of the 13 page letter your headline writer chose to pick something that would as controversial as possible. Fair enough, I suppose, it surely is one of the most contentious indeed! Mainly because teacher tenure reform has been one of the main topics of discussion among people in education since Gov.

Snyder took office and today was his first real indication of what he hopes to reform the process with. Simply put, it may not be the centerpiece of his reform proposal but it is surely one of the most contentious pieces of it. All you whiners and complainers are getting just what you asked for when you voted him in in a landslide over bernero.

And why all the uproar,these are his proposals,nothing has been voted on He'll be lucky to get a fraction of what he wants. I was pleasantly surprised by the content of this letter! Did I miss it, or is a link to it included in the article body?

Technojunkie posts one near the top of the comments section I wish Snyder had a better style because I think with better 'salesmanship' the proposals here would be mostly pretty easy to agree on. There are aspects that will be controversial beyond the teacher-evaluation scene, I'm sure, like money going to most-improved districts, and required schools-of-choice programs, but those can be productively discussed, I'd think.

And of course, there will be the issue of greater allowance of charter schools, and the implication that more testing will be needed. The thing that worries me most is the testing, really, and I guess a lot of how this plays out will come with the specifics on the plans. Will the charter schools offer true choice or will they be mostly of the mega-education-corporation variety? Snyder without any educational preparation is able to propose changes that are in opposition to research and best practices.

He will fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time. I would never recommend that a bright young person enter the teaching profession when people like Rick Snyder are in power to ruin their lives. Snyder's attacks won't stop there. Once he has eliminated all of Michigan's public schools, he will consider himself a success. Let's evaluate Snyder on the number of new jobs that he personally created that pay a livable wage with health insurance.

After all, he got our votes on jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Where are his results??? As a former educator so understand I'm not selfishly trying to protect my own interests here , while trust me, there definitely needs to be lots of educational reforms and it really does take a village. We all educators from the top administrators to every single support staff at every level, parents and students themselves need to work together to go back to being a leading nation again.

However, I do not understand at least in public education why the subject of tenure has become a political football like Obama's birth certificate - it's a distraction from real issues. This headline is not a headline. Bad teachers can be fired for poor performance in two years or less if the administrator does their job properly and without prejudice that prejudice, by the way, can also affect this merit pay political football that gets tossed around, too.

If a teacher is burned out or not doing their job, tenure does not allow them to stay. All an administrator has to do is document their poor performance hopefully fairly and out they go. So when Snyder and his supporters come up with REAL educational reforms that really will improve our crumbling school systems, then I will listen.

But it can and does take years That may be filing papers, answering phones, etc.