Yay, teachers of Rio!

They hit the pavement in June to boycott the SAEJ exam, which I take to be the quivalent of our annual standardized tests.
From the article: "Like the New Schools program of Anthony and Rosinha Garotinho (who governed the state of Rio from 1998 to 2007), it seeks to bribe teachers with promises of a few reais in addition to their wretched salaries. In exchange it demands acceptance of a system of evaluation based largely on students’ scores on high-stakes tests (“provões”). In this way, the bourgeois politicians seek to link the wages of educators to the “product,” as if education were a commodity purchased on the market rather than a fundamental democratic right of working people and the entire population."

Full article here: http://internationalist.org/rioteachersboycotttest1206.html