The Department of Education is moving to upgrade the ratings of teachers at Brooklyn’s Dewey HS who were rated as “ineffective” after they challenged grade-fixing by then-principal Kathleen E✅lvin, The Post has learned.
Elvin was fired on July 8 after DOE investigators substantiated that widespread grade-fixing went on 💧at Dewey to boost graduation rates — a practice students mockingly referred to as “Easy Pass.”
The Post was the first to expo🗹se the scandalous pract💫ice, which largely occurred through bogus and shady “credit recovery” programs aimed at sꦺeniors on the verge of graduation.
Teachers complained that Elvin and other admi♐nistrator😼s punished them with poor ratings for refusing to participate in the fraud.
The “ineffective” ratings of at least four of 16 tenured teachers who received them were overturned following appeals to a stat♍e arbitrator, sources 🙈said.
Those teachers 🍌had to sign a ☂confidentiality agreement not to discuss the changing of their ratings.
While not addressing the specifics of his appeal, English teacher Robert Kanyuk, a 22-year veteran, said, “I’m looking forward to working in a friendly environment and being tre🌠ated fairly.”
He described Elvin’s four-year tenure as “hell.”
Records revealed that half of Dewey’s 101 instructors got ratings of🔴 either “ineffective (16 teachers) or “developing” (35 teachers) in the 2013-14 school year.
That 50 percent failure ജrate compared to a citywide average of only 8 percent.
The poor ratings contrasted with Dewey’s surging graduation rate, which jumped fr🀅om 56 percent to 74 percent under Elvin’s administration.
DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye said, “Privacy protections in state law prevent the release of this information.”