Sentences with phrase «evaluation bill just»
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.»
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However, the governor did submit a bill just before midnight Monday that would provide a limited disclosure of teacher evaluations.
DeMartini's statement came just hours after Cuomo's second legislative session came to an end with the passage of the governor's bill that restricted to parents the public disclosure of the new teacher - evaluation ratings that will soon be required.
The Bloomberg administration just released a memo from Deputy Education Chancellor John White, outlining how Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed teacher evaluation bill won't change the current last in, first out layoff requirement that the mayor has been pushing to change.
While Bill Padia, director of the policy and evaluation division at the California Department of Education, thinks California's state accountability plan is «relatively close» to full NCLB compliance, he too reports that California educators are skeptical of a system where «you just raise the bar every year and the bar will be up at 100 percent in 12 years.»
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With this year's budget bill likely to be officially enacted just as late, school boards will again be scrambling over the summer months to revamp their processes, forms, and, in the case of most large districts, updating their local evaluation - system software to keep up with the moving target that is OTES.
The Florida legislature just passed a bill reducing the weight of test scores on teacher and administrator evaluations from 50 % to 37 %.
Where Ruiz's bill would include a teacher evaluation category for «partially effective,» just above «ineffective,» Diegnan's called that same category «approaching effective.»
Louisiana, Oklahoma and New York also approved bills modifying their tenure and evaluation rules in the last week, just in time to meet Tuesday's application deadline for Round 2 of the competition, known as Race to the Top.
One week before the bill was slated for a vote in the Senate Education Committee, however, the bill was stripped of several key provisions, including a requirement that teacher tenure be based partly on performance evaluations rather than just length of service.
«It's impossible to overstate just how significant this [Colorado] bill is,» said Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a national nonprofit that released a report last year revealing how the vast majority of teacher evaluation systems fail to distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones.