Sentences with phrase «battles over teacher evaluation»

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.

Another contentious issue, the ongoing battle over teacher evaluations, is expected to come to a head this week.

«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.

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.

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.

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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, Springteacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Sprevaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, SpringTeacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, SprEvaluation 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.