By Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleisher
(From The Wall Street Journal, June 22nd, 2012)
This week’s compromise on public disclosure of teacher evaluations underscored how Gov. Andrew Cuomo has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform.
Mr. Cuomo split the evaluation-disclosure issue down the middle. He rebuffed demands by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that teacher-performance records be made available to the general public. But he also nudged the unions out of their comfort zone by insisting that parents have unfettered access to the scores.
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