The AP is reporting that Los Angeles Unified's lame-duck superintendent, Ramon Cortines, who says he's retiring next year, supports a teacher evaluation system that counts student test scores for 30 percent of the grade.
Peter Meyer is an adjunct fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Meyer is also a former News Editor of Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed The Yale Murder (Empire Books, 1982; Berkley Books, 1983) and Death of Innocence (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985; Berkley Books, 1986). Over the course of his three-decade journalism career Meyer, who…
