Sentences with phrase «championed the teacher evaluation»

Cuomo championed the teacher evaluation system, which is a requirement of the federal Race To The Top grant program, through which New York won $ 700 million in 2010.

Those championing teacher evaluation, School Improvement Grants, or Common Core frequently sound as if they think no one could have anticipated or planned for the challenges that have emerged.

Not exact matches

It is unclear whether federal acting secretary of education John King — New York's former state education c ommissioner who championed the Common Core and helped usher in the use of teacher evaluations tied to state assessments under No Child Left Behind and the federal Race To The Top grant program — will give his blessing.

Lawmakers in both chambers are pushing for changes to the teacher evaluation criteria and its implementation — a policy championed by Cuomo in the budget approved last month.

He also championed the state's lessons plans designed to support the new curriculum, known as «modules,» as well as new, state - mandated teacher evaluations and a contract with inBloom, Inc. that will store student data and personal information.

The governor also touted the state's new teacher evaluation system, which he championed, as it was a requirement of New York's $ 750 million Race To The Top federal grant award.

Cuomo, who championed the new teacher evaluation system, and who has feuded publicly with teachers and their union, has also taken a step back.

He talks about more rigorous standards and evaluations for teachers and students, even while the charter schools he champions function without any effective oversight.

Cuomo, who championed the new teacher evaluation system and feuded publicly with teachers and their union, has also taken a step back.

Elia also says schools may be granted one - year waivers to delay new teacher evaluations championed by Governor Cuomo and passed during the state budget, if they can demonstrate that they are working with their teachers unions towards designing new reviews.

Elia also said schools may be granted one year waivers to delay new teacher evaluations championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and passed during the state budget, if they can demonstrate that they are working with their teachers unions towards designing new reviews.

A champion of the Common Core learning standards, Dr. Tisch, 60, pushed for the creation of new, harder tests based on those standards and for teacher evaluations tied to students» performance on the exams.

«The governor has made it clear that he is determined to be a champion for our students — and that he will not allow the teachers union to drag its feet any longer on implementing new teacher evaluation systems across the state.

Second, as Education Week reported, the law «marks a big departure from what Duncan has championed» and «undercuts» his priorities (teacher evaluation, Common Core, RTTT, and SIG).

But Democrats, typically champions of labor priorities, have been among the supporters of the new teacher - evaluation systems.

Thus, they champion national policies for teacher recruitment, preparation, and evaluation.

Champions of teacher evaluation are busy explaining, «Well, that's not what we meant!»

By kind of embedding this process of evaluation and making it all about teacher voice, teachers are the champions here... and I think that's a critical thing with this.»

Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.

Senate Bill 736, championed by Gov. Rick Scott and passed in 2011, requires that at least 40 percent of teachers» evaluation be based on a value - added model (VAM).

This alignment of goals contributed to the rash of statehouses that reformed teacher tenure and evaluation laws from 2010 to 2014, with prominent Democrats such as New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo championing the cause.

Despite this, LAUSD's Deasy bio still says he's «a man on a mission» who's «championed rigorous and ambitious learning opportunities for youth, fair teacher and administrator evaluations, pay ‐ for - performance, staff development and training, and data ‐ based decision ‐ making.»

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.

Their new regulations ordered states to establish a single statewide definition of «ineffective teacher» (thus requiring states to adopt one - size - fits - all evaluation systems like those the Obama team had long championed).

Considering the Hartford Courant has championed Governor Malloy's effort to use «teacher evaluations» as the best vehicle to determine which teachers to keep and which to let go, one would have reasonably expected that any Courant editorial would take the Superintendent to task for her failing evaluation.

The negative consequences of Malloy's actions are particularly evident when it comes to the absurd teacher evaluation system that he has championed.

In January, New Mexico released an initial response to the three major themes of that report, which included growing initiatives that championing the teaching profession, revising the state's teacher evaluation system, and reducing time spent on statewide assessments.

Efforts to legislate statewide teacher - evaluation systems, of the kind championed by the Obama administration in Race to the Top and as a condition for No Child Left Behind waivers, may be a whole different kettle of fish

In Wisconsin, legislation that specifically allows student performance to be included in teacher evaluations - but that doesn't allow teachers to be actively disciplined for their students» performance - was aggressively championed by Gov. Jim Doyle and passed within a week of Obama's launch of Race to the Top in Madison in November.