{"id":1133,"date":"2003-08-05T21:39:16","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T01:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/05\/superintendent-fails-fluency-test\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T21:39:16","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T01:39:16","slug":"superintendent-fails-fluency-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/05\/superintendent-fails-fluency-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Superintendent Fails Fluency Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An earlier posting concerning dozens of Massachusetts school teachers
\n who were about to lose their jobs after having failed a new, state-mandated
\n English fluency test (Teachers
\n Fail Fluency Test, Lose Jobs, Sue<\/a>) takes on a new dimension today
\n with the revelation that one of the failing educators (three times!)
\n was the SUPERINTENDENT of Schools in Lawrence, Mass. Coincidentally,
\n Lawrence is
\n one
\n of the school
\n districts
\n currently sueing the state over class size and school funding (Mass
\n Districts Sue State over Class Size<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Now many of the same state officials who clamored for the ouster of
\n minority teachers who failed the test are lining up to support the Lawrence
\n Super, Wilfredo T. Laboy. Laboy, who takes home $156,000 of taxpayer’s money in salary, earlier this year sanctimoniously supported the firing of 24 Lawrence teachers for failing the same exam he himself failed three times.<\/p>\n

"Governor Mitt Romney and state education leaders lined up yesterday
\n to defend the Lawrence school superintendent, who is leading one of the
\n state’s most troubled school systems despite having failed a state-mandated
\n writing test for educators three times."<\/p>\n

”I’m not sure the superintendent of schools is in the same level of importance to me in terms of English skills as are the teachers in the classroom teaching our kids,” said Romney.<\/p>\n

from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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