Sentences with phrase «few teacher evaluation reforms»

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Democratic lawmakers in that chamber already have a number of issues they have to get done: rent control, monitoring the regulations for the new teacher evaluation law and an extension of mayoral control for New York City schools and criminal justice reform, just to name a few.

Mostly this new ESEA is a rollback of No Child Left Behind, with a few reform - minded elements (on teacher evaluations, charter schools) thrown in for good measure.

The past few years have seen a raft of efforts to reform teacher evaluation, pay, and tenure.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

And when it comes to the relationship between the Common Core, Common Core testing and the teacher evaluation systems, those who are responsible for speaking up for our children, our teachers and our schools simply say enough is enough and corporate education reform initiatives need to be dismissed and real action taken to reduce the barriers to academic success — poverty, language barriers, and unmet special education needs to name a few.

It's no secret that CTA will fight any education reform measure that diminishes its influence; charter school proliferation, vouchers and reasonable teacher evaluation methods are but a few examples.

Few winning states have implemented new teacher evaluation systems, making it nearly impossible to show the tangible effects of such reforms.