Not exact matches
A provision said tougher
evaluations can't pass without
agreement on specifics
between teachers unions and school districts.
But Bloomberg said the city did make «some progress» in the budget, especially when it comes to an
agreement between the governor and legislative leaders that will essentially prevent any
teacher evaluation plans from sunsetting — a big concern for the mayor.
In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective
teachers and an
agreement between the City and the
teachers» union on a new
teacher evaluation system.
A recent budget
agreement between Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers could make it easier to fire
teachers who receive two poor
evaluations in a row.
New York City is among just a handful of 700 school districts that have not yet submitted a
teacher evaluation agreement to the State, a failure that could cost City schools
between $ 250 and $ 300 million in state funding.
As part of a recent budget
agreement between Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers, the New York State Education Department has until June 30 to come up with a plan for new
teacher evaluations that will rely more heavily on standardized tests.
CITY HALL — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a groundbreaking
agreement Thursday
between the state and
teachers» union for a new
teacher evaluation system that will make New York eligible for nearly $ 1 billion in federal funds.
Former School Board candidate John Fernandez is among a handful of voices urging to
teachers to vote against the tentative
agreement struck
between UTLA and LAUSD regarding
teacher evaluations earlier this year.
Today is the last day for LA
teachers union members to submit their votes to support or reject the
teacher evaluation agreement that has been hashed out
between UTLA leadership and LAUSD.
Deasy «is free to express his opinions, but any attempt to require principals to assign a specific weight to student test data in a
teacher's
evaluation is a violation of the protections in an
agreement between UTLA and the District,» UTLA responded in a statement.
On Saturday, E4E - Los Angeles Executive Director Ama Nyamekye commented on the
teacher evaluation agreement announced
between the Los Angeles Unified School District and United
Teachers Los Angeles.
Rhee has also criticized the tentative
agreement between UTLA and LAUSD over
teacher evaluations, which includes student achievement but leaves several key details unknown and is set for a rank - and - file vote next week.
«He is free to express his opinions, but any attempt to require principals to assign a specific weight to student test data in a
teacher's
evaluation is a violation of the protections in an
agreement between UTLA and the District.»
The study results could influence the the final decision on how much weight to give test scores in LAUSD
teacher assessments, which has not yet been determined in the tentative
evaluations agreement between the district and
teachers union.
The following aspects of the BIQ - SF were subjected to a psychometric
evaluation: (a) the hypothesized six - correlated factors structure of the scale was tested by means of a confirmatory factor analysis, (b) various types of reliability were investigated including the internal consistency, test — retest reliability, and cross-informant
agreement, and (c) several aspects of the validity were explored such as the relations with anxiety and internalizing (i.e., convergent validity) and externalizing (i.e., divergent validity) symptoms as well as the relations
between BIQ - SF scores of parents and
teachers and laboratory observations of an inhibited temperament (i.e., predictive validity).