Perhaps most importantly, the waiver initiative put sometimes - reluctant state departments of education in the role of enforcing evaluation systems in local school districts that never agreed to them. (educationnext.org)
Nevertheless, our 14,000 public - school boards of education remain, more like the iceberg than the boat — useless, unless you run into one. (educationnext.org)
It is also clear that despite their best intentions many teachers, principals, superintendents, and professors at schools of education do not know how to address these shortcomings on a meaningful scale. (educationnext.org)