Facing tremendous pressure from teachers unions, The Post reported Monday that lawmakers are pushing to insert a provision in the state budget that would ban the public from seeing new teacher report cards.
The effort to keep the public from viewing the evaluations is spearheaded by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), an Albany insider said.
This comes a month after The Post printed teacher evaluations for 12,170 New York City public school teachers from grades 4 through 8.
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATIONS
Sources said Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau County), trying to maintain the GOP’s slim Senate majority, might go along with the controversial prohibition.
“This is real serious. They mean it,” one state official told The Post. “What does the governor do if the Legislature passes this? It puts him in a tough spot.”