By Lisa Fleisher
(From The Wall Street Journal, June 21st, 2012)
ALBANY—The job-performance reviews for hundreds of thousands of individual teachers across New York would be shielded from the general public under legislation passed by the Legislature and supported by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The Republicans who control the Senate had resisted passing the legislation for much of the week but suddenly changed course on Thursday, approving the measure 58-1. The Democratic-controlled Assembly also passed the bill overwhelmingly.
It marked an important victory for Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, who had argued that the public’s right to know how individual teachers stack up against others was tempered by privacy issues.
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