We Can Fix APPR Today
They think you're stupid.
Sen. Flanagan must think we were born yesterday. The Republican State Senate majority leader has shown yet again how little he and his GOP colleagues respect public school teachers.
Instead of passing S.8301, a clean bill with 55 sponsors in the Senate to reduce testing and fix the evaluation system, Sen. Flanagan introduced a bill that ties APPR to millions of dollars for the charter industry and his political donors and to loopholes for private schools. This is just another distraction and a stall tactic.
Our message has not changed. The Senate must pass S.8301, with NO STRINGS attached.
Reject Sen. Flanagan's gambit. Tell your senator to demand the majority leader allow a vote on S.8301 now.
The vast majority of Senate Republicans joined all the Democrats to co-sponsor S.8301, our bill to fix New York's flawed and unfair teacher performance review law, weeks ago. Yet for all their talk about supporting it, Senate Republicans failed to even allow an up or down vote. They could have done it, but they didn't.
Reject Sen. Flanagan's gambit. Tell your senator to demand the majority leader allow a vote on S.8301 now.
We have been working for years to return control over teacher evaluations to local school districts and teachers. Thanks to you, we are closer than ever to fixing New York's flawed and unfair teacher performance review law. Our bill passed the Assembly 133-1. Now the Senate needs to honor teachers by voting on S.8301 now, with no strings attached.
Let's get this done now!
In solidarity,
Andrew Pallotta
NYSUT President
P.S.: Tell your state senator to reject Sen. Flanagan's ill-conceived, compromised APPR proposal and to pass S.8301 today.