Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure. (nystateofpolitics.com)
But much of that added spending is tied to backing Cuomo's education policy changes, including more stringent teacher evaluation measures and strengthening the state's charter schools. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general. (voices.washingtonpost.com)