Sentences with phrase «evaluation law ties»

The new teacher evaluation law ties additional school aid increases to compliance with the November deadline.

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Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

This is all part of the broader assault on the No Child Left Behind law and on the Obama administration's mandate tying teacher evaluations to achievement tests.

Mulgrew noted that, no matter who is the governor, federal funding and teacher evaluations are tied to high - stakes testing under the current law.

The statewide teachers union, NYSUT, whose political influence is strongest in the Democratic - led Assembly, has railed against the new evaluation law and how it is tied to teacher tenure.

The new teacher evaluation system, tied to test scores, could make it easier for principals to single out teachers deemed ineffective, although state laws still make firing such teachers so arduous that only a few are forced out each year.

After schools failed to comply with an unenforceable evaluation law for years, Cuomo tied the adoption of state - approved evaluation plans to an increase in state funding.

Michigan, for instance, passed laws permitting state takeovers of failing schools and tying teacher evaluations to students» test scores.

President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

President Barack Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major education legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

The U.S. Senate on Dec. 9 voted 85 to 12 for an overhaul of federal education law that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

California is hustling to reconsider its law that bans tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

Some states are struggling with how to tie student achievement to teacher and principal evaluations and it's putting their escape from some of the conditions of the federal No Child Left Behind law at risk.

Before parents and teachers could react, unproven concepts such as a high stakes tests mandatory grade retention, for profit charter schools, vouchers, A-F school / district grades and tying teacher evaluations to test scores were signed into law at a rapid pace.

In Tennessee, one of StudentsFirst's goals is to provide a political firewall of support for legislators who have continued to back a controversial 2010 law that tied teachers» and administrators» evaluations to gains in student achievement, despite vehement criticism from some quarters.

But he has stayed out of negotiations entirely this time around, though he said yesterday that since he wrote the law that ties state funding to an evaluation deal, his presence at the negotiating table is felt.

He says Indiana's teacher evaluation law, which ties performance to pay, would make a fall - to - spring assessment difficult.

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.

But the law expired in 2007 without congressional reauthorization, and the Obama administration has encouraged states to apply for waivers that allow them to avoid AYP penalties and the 2014 goal in exchange for adopting policies favored by the Obama Department of Education, such as tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

A landmark Colorado law that ties teacher evaluations to the progress of their students on achievement tests could help build momentum for a national movement that seeks to overhaul how instructors» tenure and pay is earned, education leaders say.

New York State first passed a law tying teacher evaluations to test scores in 2010, as part of its application for federal Race to the Top funds.

The district had hoped to tie teacher compensation to student scores on standardized tests; the union says only 30 % of teachers» evaluations will come from student test scores, the minimum under Illinois state law.

He says even though Indiana has a waiver from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's strictest provisions, things like school letter grades and teacher evaluations are still tied to standardized test scores.

These four points are so compelling to education reformers, Brill describes, that Race To The Top was designed as a way to encourage states to change their laws to remove charter caps and to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

The longer answer: NY state law ties the «growth» students make on state tests from one year to the next to teachers» evaluations.

Another irony omitted by Brill about Mapleton is that Johnston will soon become a State Senator who gets a law passed tying teacher evaluations to test scores while at his own school the scores were terrible with, for example, 11 percent proficiency in math in Johnston's final year as principal there.

NEW YORK — Since the Republican takeover of state legislatures around the country, states have been passing loudly - trumpeted laws that revamp teacher evaluations and tenure, tying performance reviews to standardized test scores.

In this case, some states had laws totally barring tying test scores and evaluations.

Trepidation is widespread, from Colorado to Illinois to New York, which also passed a law tying teacher evaluations to student progress.

He followed up with what his supporters would say has been a successful record of accomplishments on the education front, including last year's passage of a tenure - reform law that for the first time directly tied teachers» tenure to their annual evaluations.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)- Three cash - strapped states may find themselves left at the starting line in the competition for more than $ 4 billion in education stimulus funding if they don't amend laws that prevent student test results from being tied to teacher evaluations...

Eleven states changed laws to tie teacher evaluations to student achievement.

A landmark Colorado law that ties teacher evaluations to the progress of their students on achievement tests could help build momentum for a national movement that seeks to overhaul how...