The report card for New Jersey teacher standards shows a sad D-plus grade, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality.
The report is based on investigations into how teachers in each state are trained, evaluated, rewarded and fired, reports the Inquirer.
Ironically, New Jersey’s schools are ranked among the top-performers in the U.S.
According to the Inquirer, the report reiterates problems in the school system that Gov. Christie has been saying need to be fixed by his education-overhaul agenda.
"What the governor has proposed with evaluation and tenure would put New Jersey among the trailblazer states," Sandi Jacobs, the National council on Teacher Quality’s council's vice president, told the Inquirer.
Not much has changed since the group’s report two years ago. The state got a slightly lower grade of D that time around.
Though Christie wants to takes measures to improve teacher standards, the teachers’ unions vehemently oppose his measures.
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Christie wants to base half of a teacher’s evaluation on how his or her students are performing. The governor also wants a teacher’s evaluation – whether bad or good – to have consequences.
herefore, teachers who have poorly performing students would lose tenure protections and those with high-performing students would get raises.
"To say that our system is failing flies in the face of the results our schools are achieving,” New Jersey Education Association union spokesman Steve Baker told the Inquirer.
