Sentences with phrase «dealing with teacher evaluations»

New Jersey was awarded $ 38 million in late 2011 on the third try in a competition that cost one state education commissioner his job and ultimately gave the state a late start in several federally funded programs dealing with teacher evaluations, curriculum and testing reforms, and school choice.

Not exact matches

Mayor Bloomberg is moving ahead with plans to close 33 low - performing schools, but remains optimistic about a deal with the UFT on teacher evaluations.

The newest chancellor of the Board of Regents, she hails from the Bronx and will be tasked with dealing with fraught issues like teacher evaluations, the Common Core and the growing movement to opt out of the curriculum's exams.

«The key education reforms are dealing with the epidemic of failing schools, improvement to the teacher evaluation system, tenure reform, teacher performance bonuses and scholarships to attract new teachers.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

But while most of the attention went to negotiations about teacher evaluations and standardized tests, new policies also were put in place for dealing with failing schools.

It was a dramatic increase from the existing evaluation rubric, settled with teachers unions as part of the state's Race to the Top deal, that used state tests as 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

Marcellino in the last several weeks alone has introduced legislation dealing with the Common Core standards as well as the newly approved teacher evaluation regulations.

At the Red Room press conference where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic legislative leaders — minus Skelos — had announced the med - mar deal, Klein said a vote would be held Thursday evening on the bill, along with bills that would create a 25 mph in New York City and adjust the state's teacher evaluation law.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

«Governor Cuomo and State Education Commissioner John King deserve high marks for standing up for our kids and successfully pressuring Buffalo School Superintendent Dr. Pamela Brown to void a highly questionable, secret side deal with the teachers» union that threatened to significantly undermine their teacher evaluation system before it was even implemented.

Catsimatidis also admitted that he considers himself a union guy, from his days as a member, and said that, if he were mayor, he would have been able to reach deals with the teachers» and bus drivers» union on a teacher evaluation system and new contracts to avert the school bus strike.

Though he told former Gov. David Paterson in a radio interview yesterday that he felt a bill dealing with the disclosure of teacher evaluations could be put on hold, Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced his own program bill early Tuesday morning anyway.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

«The appeal process will not go into effect unless and until Mayor Bloomberg negotiates agreements with the UFT for an overall teacher evaluation deal... for schools eligible for School Improvement Grants,» Mulgrew said in a statement, adding that «the Mayor's obsession with closing schools presents a significant barrier to us reaching that overall agreement.»

Most important, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't struck a deal with the city on how to use student test scores in these evaluations.

Evaluation of a pilot AIDS education package for schools showed teachers» inhibitions to be the main stumbling block: some teachers ignore all modules that deal with sex and condoms, leaving pupils misinformed, anxious and frustrated.

Recent revisions to the most prominent federal law dealing with school quality — the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — mark a sharp rollback of the federal role in teacher evaluation and accountability.

And it's not like policymakers have helped with any of this by reducing the paper burden associated with harsh evaluations or giving principals tools for dealing with now - embittered teachers.

The exhibition hall was often near gridlock, and many workshops were turning away attendees for lack of space those dealing with coming mandates regarding teacher evaluation and new standards and testing were especially sought after.

It was a dramatic increase from the existing evaluation rubric, settled with teachers unions as part of the state's Race to the Top deal, that used state tests as 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

After the evaluation deal collapsed, other dominoes fell: earlier this year, the Board of Regents, led by opt - out ally Betty Rosa, did away with a rule requiring potential New York teachers pass a literacy test.

Backroom deals on teacher evaluations that threaten to render tenure meaningless and that will drastically change the working conditions of teachers with no input from rank - and - file union membership.

Former Washington DC schools superintendent Michelle Rhee credits LAUSD and UTLA for making progress with their tentative teacher evaluation deal but describes it as» falling short in many ways» and cites it as an example of the need for a «strong statewide policy governing teachers» performance evaluations.»

The NEA document is even more laughable; it deals only with teacher evaluation and has nothing about what to do with criminal teachers.

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«With no local deal in sight, the time has come for our leaders in Albany to step in and implement a real and meaningful evaluation system that will give teachers the critical feedback and support they need to help their students grow,» said Jonathan Schleifer, Executive Director of Educators for Excellence - New York.

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.

Gov. Cuomo recently struck a deal with the state teachers union for an evaluation system that resembles the city's teacher ratings scheme.

With the teacher evaluation deadline looming near for New York City, the issue has attracted a great deal of attention from the media.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

That covers a big gap between when the law revamping teacher evaluations was passed (2010) and when Buffalo actually reached an evaluation deal with teachers.

«The current UTLA leadership has basically tried to deal with things in an overwhelmingly defensive and reactive way, taking things issue by issue — like teacher evaluations.»

Other coverage of the agreement is in The Daily News (LAUSD has tentative deal with administrators on teacher evaluations) and KPCC (LAUSD and administrators» union reach tentative deal on student test scores in evals).

In recent weeks, there has been a great deal of attention with regard to firewalls and the linkages between the evaluation of teachers and the achievement of students.

As a result of this type of thinking, instead of dealing with the under - funding, Connecticut's new «education reform» law leads with a new teacher evaluation program.

«In the wake of the Newtown (Conn.) tragedy, the mayor's comparison this morning of teachers to the National Rifle Association is completely inappropriate, and a demonstration of how difficult he can be to deal with on any issue — much less one as complex as a new teacher evaluation system,» union president Michael Mulgrew said in the statement.

This bill deals with assessment data that are used in overall teacher evaluations.

Suburban districts, after all, also have to deal with quality - blind seniority - based privileges such as reverse - seniority layoff rules, pay scales that favor seat time over performance, and restrictions on the use of objective student test score growth data from use in teacher evaluations.

The city could lose nearly $ 60 million in federal aid for its failing schools after officials were unable to reach a deal with the teachers union on instructor evaluations.

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