Sentences with phrase «fired over the test scores»

IF only Finch could be fired over the test scores... and Adamowski and the rest.

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The conversation covers a lot of ground, touching on why Wahlberg almost fired his agent over Fifty Shades of Grey, Roven showing Heath Ledger the IMAX prologue for The Dark Knight, Entourage salary disputes, horrible test scores for Boogie Nights, and so much more.

The report is certain to add fuel to the fire in the ongoing debate in California and elsewhere over how to measure teacher quality and the effort or resistance of some government bodies to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

Governor Dan Malloy used that quote to reiterate why the state should terminate tenure, shift to a teacher evaluation system that relies more heavily on standardized test scores and create something called the «Commissioner's Network» in which the state would take over 25 schools, fire the teachers, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to a third - party.

In what may be among the first of many lawsuits over the new evaluations — which have been adopted by multiple states — the Florida teachers union is challenging the state's use of test scores in decisions about which teachers are fired and which receive pay raises.

Even with strong majorities favoring time to adjust, over three - quarters (78 %) of voters believe teachers should continue to be evaluated based in part on test scores during the transition with 26 % believing those evaluations should be used only to reward good work or provide guidance to improve teaching and 19 % agreeing only if the evaluations are not used to hire or fire teachers.