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The teachers I was invited to watch were members of Educators 4 Excellence,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap jordans online< a>, the teacher policy group I wrote about for Learning Curve on Tuesday. And they were trying to understand how MPS and its union relate to one another on the topic, both inside the contract and out. Some were a tad uncomfortable talking about the way evaluations work in their schools in front of a reporter who might quote them. The reporter, however, was more interested in hearing how teachers in mainline public schools truly feel about being evaluated than in taking names. Everyone observed each year The identifying-detail-free bottom line: So far,<a href=" " target="_blank">wholesale cheap jordans< a>, teachers are pretty pleased with the process and the results. 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