Sentences with phrase «with the teacher evaluation deadline»
With the teacher evaluation deadline looming near for New York City, the issue has attracted a great deal of attention from the media.
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King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.
The mayor praised the Assembly Democrats — and Speaker Sheldon Silver in particular — for trying to restore the $ 250 million the city lost after it failed to reach a teacher evaluation agreement with the UFT by the deadline laid out by the governor.
When Cuomo convinced the legislature to approve a new teacher evaluation system the relies more on standardized tests, his administration said that the State Board of Regents would have very limited power to make any changes including compliance with a November deadline to come up with new performance reviews.
The new teacher evaluation law ties additional school aid increases to compliance with the November deadline.
The heightened level of concern with events in the capital comes amid shakeups in state leadership, important legislation on the negotiating table with deadlines looming, and recently passed controversial state teacher evaluation laws.
A judge has temporarily blocked the state from withholding approximately $ 250 million in school aid from New York City as a penalty for the city's failure to reach agreement with the UFT on a new teacher evaluation system by the Jan. 17 deadline.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he will push to restore the approximately $ 250 million in aid that the state plans to withhold from New York City as a penalty for the city's failure to reach agreement with the UFT on a new teacher evaluation system by the Jan. 17 deadline.
The state Legislature set the January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring a new evaluation system for all teachers or forfeit their share of the state's 3 percent increase in annual school aid.
* UPDATED LA Unified met today's deadline and filed an application for a No Child Left Behind waiver without one of the key requirements of the U.S. Department of Education — an agreement with the teachers union on a three - level teacher evaluation system.
Superintendent John Deasy said this morning that he expects a tentative agreement with UTLA over a new system of teacher evaluations, as mandated by the court in Doe v. Deasy, at some point in the next four days — just before the deadline set by the judge.
Speaking an event about teacher evaluations hosted by the advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, Walcott said he aimed to finalize an agreement with the UFT by the end of December, more than two weeks before Cuomo's deadline.
With just two weeks remaining before a mandatory deadline for a teacher evaluation deal, Educators 4 Excellence classroom teachers have launched a 2013 New Year's Resolution video campaign focused on why a comprehensive evaluation system is sorely needed in New York City.
With less than nine months and counting, New Jersey's rollout of a statewide teacher evaluation system is moving ahead, but the deadlines are tight, reliability remains an issue and the system has yet to win the confidence of the teachers it's intended to evaluate.