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By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

States that win waivers to allow alternative health plans could cut their consumers» premiums by 20 percent in 2020 and 2021, the CBO said in its preliminary evaluation of Mr. Alexander's bill.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

The measure is opposed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose lobbying efforts today have already been setback after the GOP - led Senate announced it would take up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's teacher evaluation disclosure bill, a measure his office also opposes.

Republicans in the state Senate have introduced a «same as» bill that would decouple state - based standardized examinations from teacher and principle evaluations — suggesting the measure strongly backed by the state's teachers union stands a strong chance of advancing in Albany.

The bill is backed by the New York State United Teachers union, which had opposed the reliance on examinations in teacher evaluations.

The bill proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to make the state's new teacher evaluation system a valuable tool for parents and the public is almost good enough to support.

Recent research — most notably a 2013 project funded by software billionaire Bill Gates — concluded that student scores can be an effective evaluation tool.

Last week, we were confronted with a bill presented by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conference that would essentially provide for a two - year moratorium on the APPR (teacher evaluations) while establishing some restrictions regarding use of a student's personal data.

Other things to watch out for as the session comes to a close: The budget «clean - up» bill, a fight between Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos and his co-leader, Jeff Klein, over a plan to lower NYC's speed limit, teacher evaluation talks, and the home health aide program bill backed by 1199.

A bill backed by Republican Sen. Jack Martins would exempt the state's top performing school districts from the newly approved teacher evaluation criteria.

«In 2007, Eric Schneiderman was one of only eight state Senators to vote against S. 3318, a bi-partisan bill crafted by former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer, mandating civil confinement for dangerous convicted sex offenders — individuals, whom after evaluation, were deemed at high - risk to commit additional sex crimes,» Donovan said in a news release.

During the 84 - minute speech, Cuomo largely focused on education, proposing to increase school aid by $ 1 billion, increase reliance on teacher evaluations and tie the education investment tax credit to the Dream Act, a bill that would open state tuition assistance programs to undocumented students.

The bill as introduced by the governor would allow parents and legal guardians to view teacher and principal evaluations.

Obama signed «Every Student Succeeds,» a new bipartisan education bill that scraps the program by giving states more power to decide testing and teacher evaluations.

«I am introducing my bill, the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Disclosure Act, for consideration by the Senate and the Assembly,» Cuomo said in a statement sent after midnight.

In a recent New York Times opinion piece even Bill Gates, a harsh critic of the old system of teacher evaluation, cautions against shaming educators by publishing teacher scores in the media.

GOPers were furious over what they viewed as heavy - handed lobbying by Bloomberg and his team as they tried last week to kill the governor's union - favored compromise bill to limit the public release of teacher evaluations, insiders say.

Cuomo issued this statement when his bill was introduced late last night, after negotiations broke down: «I am introducing my bill, the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Disclosure Act, for consideration by the Senate and the Assembly.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is «disappointed» that the teacher evaluation bill just passed by both houses of the Legislature because it doesn't meet «full disclosure.»

Some of the technology - focused changes the Assembly pledged to implement include making the functionality of the legislature's bill - tracking system available to the public; creating a web portal that includes all information related to bills, including committee actions and evaluations by outside groups; the creation of a C - Span like legislative television channel; making the content of the legislative library searchable online and modernizing the Assembly's phone system to include digital voicemail boxes.

Funded partly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute, the analysis was conducted with the assistance of the University of Washington's highly respected Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which seeks to identify the world's major health problems so society can best allocate medical resources and funding.

New research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) exploring the impact of House Bill 2 (HB 2)-- the restrictive Texas abortion law that was struck down by the Supreme Court — found that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.

Under the House Defense bill adopted Thursday by the full committee, DOD research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) funding would increase by over $ 10 billion or 14.3 percent above FY 2017 levels, and $ 1.2 billion above what was already a rather robust request.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

If you don't believe that other influential Democrats favor this form of evaluation, check out the Title I bill recently introduced by Reps. Jared Polis and Susan Davis.

Colorado enacted the single most important piece of legislation to come out of the RTT process — its remarkable Senate Bill 191 (arduously carried by Mike Johnston) which overhauled teacher evaluation and tenure and introduced a smart statewide framework for gauging teacher performance.

The most significant recent research on teacher evaluation was initiated in 2009 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and resulted in a 2011 report known as Measures of Effective Teaching (MET).

Research supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has advocated for more rigorous teacher evaluations, suggests that using two evaluators tends to yield more accurate assessments than using one.

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).

Teacher Evaluations: Let the Battle Begin On Wednesday, the state Senate Education Committee will take up a bill by Sen. Ron Calderon, D - Montebello, that would adopt a formal state standard for evaluating teachers.

By Valerie Strauss January 14, 2011; 12:00 PM ET Categories: Guest Bloggers, Matthew Di Carlo, Research, Teacher assessment Tags: MET project, MET study, assessing teachers, bill gates, bill gates foundation, gates foundation, teacher assessment, teacher evaluation, value - added, value - added measures Save & Share: Previous: The astrology college story Next: Robocall revenge — the postscript

The study was a fallback when a bill by the governor, and sponsored by Hoffmann, would have allowed school officials to use test data as they chose on teacher evaluations failed to gain traction in the Legislature.

Florida's evaluation system was created as part of Senate Bill 736 (SB736) passed in 2011 and championed by Gov. Rick Scott.

The Great Teachers and Leaders Act (known by many as Senate Bill 191) and the Innovation Schools Act have allowed Colorado school districts to be at the forefront of teacher and principal evaluation and to pursue new staffing and learning models.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this study is examining the relationship of TNTP's evaluation system for new teachers to student outcomes in Louisiana.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

Kerrie was one of only four teachers appointed by Governor Bill Ritter in 2010 to serve on the Council on Educator Effectiveness, which is charged with making recommendations on implementation of SB 191, Colorado's groundbreaking evaluation law, to the State Board of Education.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

With support from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible, research - based resource that will enable outreach programs to more readily and systematically use data and outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote research that will identify effective program models across outreach programs and document the collective impact of programs by using the evaluation data generated through a common assessment Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible, research - based resource that will enable outreach programs to more readily and systematically use data and outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote research that will identify effective program models across outreach programs and document the collective impact of programs by using the evaluation data generated through a common assessment evaluation data generated through a common assessment framework.

By passing Senate Bill 10 - 191 with bipartisan support, the state led the nation in forging a new path forward for tenure and evaluation reform.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

But the bill, supported by the powerful California Teachers Assn., attracted a firestorm of criticism over the costs to financially strapped districts and the requirement to negotiate with unions every element of evaluations, including the use of state standardized test scores.

The new teacher contract, announced Thursday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, includes wage increases and back pay, a streamlined teacher evaluation process and time built into the school day for professional development and parent engagement.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

By TIMOTHY KNOWLES Colorado did right by its kids recently when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law groundbreaking education reform to overhaul teacher tenure and evaluatioBy TIMOTHY KNOWLES Colorado did right by its kids recently when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law groundbreaking education reform to overhaul teacher tenure and evaluatioby its kids recently when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law groundbreaking education reform to overhaul teacher tenure and evaluation.

Colorado did right by its kids recently when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law groundbreaking education reform to overhaul teacher tenure and evaluation.

A study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found it doesn't necessarily matter which practices are emphasized on evaluations.

The bills also delay annual evaluations of the AGR program by one year.