When the dust settled, some said that the teachers had won
the battle over teacher evaluations, while others pointed out that they had lost the effort to cap the growth of charter schools.
«You may not hear the cannon and musket fire,» he told the New York State Association of Counties last week, but
the battle over teacher evaluations is joined.
Another contentious issue, the ongoing
battle over teacher evaluations, is expected to come to a head this week.
School and union leaders in the nation's largest school districts who are waging epic
battles over teacher evaluation, compensation and the future of the teaching profession could learn a lesson from their colleagues in Newark, New Jersey.
Not exact matches
Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched
battles over charter schools,
teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.
Ms. Magee and the 600,000 public school
teachers she represents lost out in their
battle with Mr. Cuomo
over the new test - based
evaluations outlined in this year's budget agreement.
New York State United
Teachers, the state's largest teachers union, supported the movement and leveraged it in the battle over teacher and principal eval
Teachers, the state's largest
teachers union, supported the movement and leveraged it in the battle over teacher and principal eval
teachers union, supported the movement and leveraged it in the
battle over teacher and principal
evaluations.
The high - stakes political
battle over public disclosure of newly required
teacher evaluations goes down to the wire today with the possibility that no agreement will be reached, The Post has learned.
This year's state exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking this week, immediately follow a bitter
battle between Cuomo and
teachers» unions
over evaluations as well as tenure, merit pay and turnaround strategies for chronically underperforming schools.
«Mr. Cuomo's adversarial stance toward
teachers borders on disdain,» Astorino wrote of the series of
battles Cuomo has had with
teachers over everything from Common Core educational standards to an
evaluation system to the level of state aid to public schools.
Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and
teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators
battled with the state Department of Education and the governor
over reforms that would have wedded the two.
But unions and the State Education Department have
battled over how districts should handle
teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.
The state
teacher's union is currently embroiled in its own
battle with the state DOE
over its push to implement tougher
teacher evaluation standards this fall.
But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big
battles over getting new
teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring
teacher -
evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spr
evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The
Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring
Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spr
Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).
Long - simmering
battles flared up between Albany, New York City, and the unions
over teacher evaluation.
Battle lines
over teacher evaluations in California were drawn in Sacramento Wednesday, as lawmakers narrowly moved along legislation that would use student test scores as a key component.
Yet as seen with the
battles over implementing Common Core reading and math standards, as well as the fights
over implementing test score growth - based
teacher evaluations, these reforms will be even more difficult to implement than the first round.
The campaign comes at a time when public education is increasingly riven by
battles over the use of standardized testing in
teacher performance
evaluations and the rollout of the Common Core, new benchmarks for what students need to know and be able to do between kindergarten and the end of high school.
This can be seen in New York State where Education Commissioner John King is
battling both Common Core foes and the AFT's Empire State affiliate
over all aspects of implementing standards and
teacher evaluations.
This includes the new
teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also
battling reformers
over another
evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.