Story from the leftist Los Angeles Times. (H/T Wes Widner)

Excerpt:

The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a “massive boycott” of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.

“You’re leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by … a test,” said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has more than 40,000 members.

Duffy said he would urge other labor groups to ask their members to cancel their subscriptions.

[…]The district has had the ability to analyze the differences among teachers for years but opted not to do so, in large part because of anticipated union resistance, The Times found.

The newspaper plans to publish an online database with ratings for the more than 6,000 elementary school instructors later this month.

[…]After learning of the analysis and the database last week, union leaders began making automated calls to teachers objecting to publication. In the Friday evening call, Duffy said the database was “an irresponsible, offensive intrusion into your professional life that will do nothing to improve student learning.

“Our attorneys are looking into the legalities of this database,” he said in the recorded message. “This is part of the continuing attack on our profession, and we must continue to fight back on all fronts.”

On Sunday, Duffy declined to talk about any legal action or other protests besides a boycott. “I’ll keep that to myself,” he said.

Remember that Obama is lapdog of the teacher unions, because they got him elected. In fact, he just paid them off with another billion dollar bailout from him just a few days ago. I would not be surprised to see him intervene to stop the publication of teacher evaluations. He doesn’t care about parents and children – he cares about bailing out the people who got him elected using money from the parents who trust these unions to provide their children with a decent education.