Superintendent Fails Fluency Test

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

Now many of the same state officials who clamored for the ouster of
minority teachers who failed the test are lining up to support the Lawrence
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.

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

”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.

from the Boston Globe