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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.

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the Assembly will take up a bill Wednesday to decouple the results of standardized student test scores from teacher evaluations.

The bill, he said, did not «fix the foundational issues with the teacher evaluation system.»

Bloomberg said that while he was «glad» that Cuomo was helping to speed up the issue of teacher evaluations, he hoped the governor would make the LIFO bill a priority.

Cuomo said the bill fails to «fix the foundational issues» with that evaluation system.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters at a 1 p.m. news conference that he was through negotiating with lawmakers his teacher evaluation disclosure bill, saying the measure he introduced late last night won't be altered this week.

Cuomo said last week during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol that new data regarding the results of the second year of the evaluation system, which included New York City for the first time, caused him to reconsider signing the bill.

«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.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says the New York state Assembly will take up a bill Wednesday to decouple the results of standardized test scores from teacher evaluations.

In late June 2014, when Cuomo announced he had reached a deal with the union and secured lawmakers» support, Magee said the bill was a first step toward an overhaul of the 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.

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.

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.»

«So we recommend that patients undergo a thorough neurological evaluation to rule out secondary causes, which can be life - threatening,» Biller said.

, chairwoman of the Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee, said the senator had not seen NOAA's evaluation of the bill and could not comment.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

But Charles Barone, who directs federal policy for Democrats for Education Reform, said that the initial version of the bill squared with the evaluation proposal Van Roekel referenced.

The NEA said it is waiting until Friday to make any official statement in the hopes that Harkin revises language of the bill regarding teacher evaluations.

Last month, State Superintendent Brian Whiston said if lawmakers don't act on the bill, he'd bring his own proposal to improve teacher evaluations across the state.

Weber said the bill, while not perfect, provides «a beginning, a framework» for future legislation improving teacher evaluations and training.

In defending her bill, Liu said that «buy - in from teachers» is critical for evaluations to be useful in helping teachers improve.

«Not only does the legislation implement a toothless teacher evaluation system, the bill could jeopardize school district efforts to put great teachers in every classroom,» said Tim Melton, vice president of legislative affairs for StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based national educational advocacy organization.

Fuentes called his bill «leagues better» than current state law, which has largely resulted in pro-forma evaluations of teachers that critics say offer little useful feedback on how to improve their performance.

The bill, like Senate Bill 6, requires school systems to evaluate and pay teachers primarily on the basis of student test scores, which assessment experts say is an ineffective evaluation metbill, like Senate Bill 6, requires school systems to evaluate and pay teachers primarily on the basis of student test scores, which assessment experts say is an ineffective evaluation metBill 6, requires school systems to evaluate and pay teachers primarily on the basis of student test scores, which assessment experts say is an ineffective evaluation method.

LAUSD Supt. John Deasy has said the bill, which the district opposes, would make it more difficult to push forward a new voluntary evaluation program.

«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.

Supporters of a charter - school reform bill passed last year, House Bill 2, and of new evaluations for school sponsors say they aim to bring more accountability and transparency to a charter system that spends about $ 1 billion annually to educate more than 120,000 Ohio students attending 374 charter schobill passed last year, House Bill 2, and of new evaluations for school sponsors say they aim to bring more accountability and transparency to a charter system that spends about $ 1 billion annually to educate more than 120,000 Ohio students attending 374 charter schoBill 2, and of new evaluations for school sponsors say they aim to bring more accountability and transparency to a charter system that spends about $ 1 billion annually to educate more than 120,000 Ohio students attending 374 charter schools.

«The High School Benchmarks report, and other reports from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, are critical comparison points for NCAN and our members,» said Bill DeBaun, Director of Data and Evaluation, National College Access Network (NCAN).

The revisions also drew criticism from Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, who said that aside from reducing funding for the bill, the committees also stripped it of some of its key elements, such as provisions linking teacher evaluations to decisions on tenure.

Although CTA has not taken an official position on the proposed funding and other amendments, she said many of the bill's provisions addressed key union concerns, including allocating funding to train administrators on how to perform evaluations.

Since teacher unions have vociferously opposed the use of test scores in evaluations, saying they are too unreliable for decisions on hiring and firing, the bill would probably weaken the movement to do so.

California Assembly member Susan Bonilla's AB 934 addresses tenure, dismissal, evaluations and the Last In, First Out method of lay - offs that the bill says discriminates against minority neighborhoods.

«You have this unlikely marriage of folks on the far right who are convinced this is part of a federal takeover of local education, who have joined hands with folks on the left associated with teachers unions who are trying to sever any connection between test results and teacher evaluation,» said Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee, a Republican who supports the Common Core.

«Even if you are low - performing but improving, that's good news,» said Bill Padia, director of policy and evaluation for the Department of Education.