For example, clear guidance or regulations are necessary to ensure that states don't use the federal «teacher effectiveness» definition requirements to layer on teacher evaluation requirements that are not otherwise in state laws. (educationnext.org)
The Orange school district, however, said that while it scrapped some exams, it planned to stick with many of its new tests because of teacher evaluation requirements still in state law. (orlandosentinel.com)
Sen. Tom Harkin (D - Iowa) shifted a major teacher evaluation requirement out of his rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — known as No Child Left Behind — over the weekend, shifting the dynamics of the debate over the bill's passage. (huffingtonpost.com)