Sentences with phrase «evaluation law requires»

The state's 2012 teacher evaluation law requires that student test scores be factored into the formula used to rate whether teachers are «ineffective,» «developing,» «effective» or «highly effective.»

Since 2008, the city has rated principals according to a tiered system based «multiple measures» that include student test scores — exactly as the state's evaluation law requires.

Michigan's new education evaluation law requires building administrators be evaluated annually based on a combination of factors including student growth and professional practice as measured by their district's administrator evaluation tool.

Not exact matches

The Governor signed a law last year requiring all school districts to implement an evaluation system based on the statewide system approved by the State Education Department or risk losing their increase in education aidresulting in 99 percent compliance (687 out of 691 school districts implemented a system).

Some lawmakers want to fix a recently passed law that requires a fast turn around for new teacher evaluations, while others would like a tax break for donors that would help private schools.

Under former Governor David Paterson, the state passed a law requiring teacher evaluations, but it wasn't enforced.

A federal law requiring bus companies to post safety ratings where passengers can see them might have prevented a deadly bus crash in Queens last month, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, if riders had known where to look for the evaluations.

The state Legislature set the January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring a new evaluation system for all teachers or forfeit their share of the state's 3 percent increase in annual school aid.

Some leading legislators have left the door open for changes in the evaluation law during their next session, which begins in January.State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), during an interview last week with National Public Radio on WCNY in Syracuse, said he believes any required changes probably could be made by the Regents and their staff in the Education Department.

We all understand that state law requires that New York City change its teacher evaluation system.»

No, the use of student learning measures will continue to be part of teacher evaluation as required by state law.

Federal law requires that the administration undertake a formal evaluation of the rule before a decision is made about whether to rescind the regulation, the senior official said, adding that the review would likely take a «long time to get through.»

Florida's law requires districts to pay more to teachers who score well on the state's new evaluations.

The cash - strapped state just doesn't have the funds to help school districts cover the cost of a new evaluation plan, as state law requires, Kirst said.

And the evidence so far is that, even in states that have passed new laws requiring rigorous, performance - based evaluation, virtually all teachers are getting satisfactory evaluations, just as before.

The new report did not capture a precise measure on what proportion of tests were required by teacher evaluation, but it does point out that many states have put in place new assessments «to satisfy state regulations and laws for teacher and principal evaluation driven by and approved by U.S. Department of Education policies.»

This (and Race to the Top) prompted state legislators to craft an even stricter law that required fully half of a teacher's evaluation to be based on students» test performance; the union put up a fight and Governor Charlie Crist vetoed the measure.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

A: The TEACHNJ Act — New Jersey's teacher tenure law — requires educator evaluations that include multiple measures of student learning.

The new law requires at least half of a teacher's evaluation to be based on student learning gains instead of determined solely by principal or peer review.

AB 575, sponsored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins and Education Committee Chair Patrick O'Donnell, would have weakened the Stull Act, the state's law requiring teacher evaluations that are critical to ensuring that every child has a quality teacher.

This law defines certain requirements and structures for the new evaluation system in New Jersey, and requires that tenure decisions be linked to evaluation outcomes.

SB 499, sponsored by Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León and Education Committee Chair Carol Liu, would weaken the Stull Act, the state's law requiring teacher evaluations that are critical to ensuring that every child has a quality teacher.

That designation resulted from the lack of an independent evaluation determining these levels to be «reasonable, reliable, valid, and informative to the public,» as required by the 1994 law.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

A new principal evaluation system is required by a 2010 state law, the same law that mandated the new teacher evaluation system slated to go into effect in 2013.

A central piece of Maryland's application is a new state law and regulations that require new teacher and principal evaluations, half of which will be based on growth in student achievement, said William Reinhard, the spokesman for the Maryland education department.

«Here in the state of Florida, we're required by law to base our teacher evaluation instruments on solid research, something we had never done in the past.

The new law no longer requires states to set up teacher - evaluation systems based on students» test score.

The negotiated agreements were required under a revised teacher and principal evaluation law passed earlier this year.

The 2010 law requires districts to reimagine their talent - management and educator - support systems by requiring annual performance evaluations, ensuring tenure is earned and not the guarantee of lifetime employment, and ending both seniority - based layoffs and the forced placement of teachers into schools where they neither want to be nor fit well.

Annual evaluations for each teacher in New York state are required under a 2010 law.

The Washington State legislature passed a law in 2010 requiring that all districts implement a state - approved evaluation system that addresses multiple facets of teaching by the 2013 - 2014 school year.

The proposal by Educators 4 Excellence, whose L.A. chapter of 900 teachers was launched last November, came one day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found that the Los Angeles Unified School District had violated a state law requiring the use of such student achievement measures in its instructor evaluations.

In April, the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) sued the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and its Commissioner Mike Morath, alleging that the scheduled July 1 implementation of the new Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T - TESS) violates state law by requiring that school districts base 20 % of each teacher's evaluation on student achievement growth measuresEvaluation and Support System (T - TESS) violates state law by requiring that school districts base 20 % of each teacher's evaluation on student achievement growth measuresevaluation on student achievement growth measures -LSB-...]

The new law (E2SSB 6696 - Regarding Education Reform (2010)-RRB-, enacted in support of the state's efforts to participate in Race to the Top, requires Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to partner with the Washington Education Association, Washington Association of School Administrators, the Association of Washington School Principals, and the Washington State Parent Teacher Association to design a process for improving the state's principal and teacher evaluation systems.

The Illinois legislature passed measures that required evaluation to be tied to quantitative measures, but the union was able to ensure that the percentage of the evaluations tied to such measures would be the minimum allowed by the law.

At a hearing Tuesday, Judge James Chalfant said the Los Angeles Unified School District, one of the nation's largest, violated California's Stull Act, a 41 - year - old law that requires teacher evaluations to take into consideration the performance of students.

The law had required districts to report their final evaluation systems to the education department by Jan. 1, but the administration extended the deadline to Feb. 15.

Districts in the rest of Tennessee are also overhauling their teacher evaluations, after a state law passed in 2010 requiring them to do so.

States across the country have recently been passing laws requiring that test scores be included in teacher evaluations.

The new law specifically provides that the U.S. Secretary of Education has no authority to require states to implement any kind of teacher evaluation system, and that all waivers have no legal effect on or after Aug. 1, 2016.

In 2012, administrators there essentially had to navigate two evaluation systems: the pilot program and the one required by the terms of existing laws and board policies.

«We are looking at decades where we had a law on the books that required schools to link teacher evaluations to student performance — and most schools are still not in compliance,» she said.

Last month, a Superior Court judge ruled L.A. Unified to be in violation of a 41 - year - old law requiring student progress to be part of teacher evaluations.

The state's results are preliminary, with 15 percent of districts still not reporting their choice of evaluation instruments in compliance with this week's deadline, which is included in the state's new tenure law that required districts to have evaluation instruments chosen by the start of this calendar year and in place for the start of the next school year in September.

Take this major VAM case in Florida: In 2013, the National Education Association and its Florida affiliate filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that required at least half of a teacher's evaluation to be based on VAM.

The state law requires principal evaluation systems to include a minimum of 25 percent student growth this school year.

Critics countered that the law did not ask the board to evaluate the quality of the out - of - state programs, instead requiring it to «issue a standard license to an otherwise qualified teacher candidate under this section who successfully performs throughout a program under this section, successfully completes all required skills, pedagogy and content area examinations,» and either demonstrates proficiency to a site - based evaluation team or completed an alternative certification program in another state.

2010 State Law Requires CPS to Launch New Evaluation System Next School Year — CPS Will Fully Phase in New System Over Next Five Years