Sentences with phrase «first teacher evaluation law»
Passed in 2010, the state's first teacher evaluation law mandated that test scores contribute at least 20 percent of some teachers» ratings.
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Cuomo's proposed education measure focuses more on teacher evaluation and has little to do with eliminating the so - called last in, first out state law.
Recent changes to the teacher evaluation law are a first step in the right direction, but will have little impact unless we implement new and better ways to recruit, retain and reward our most talented educators.
The first case challenging New York's law on teacher evaluations has been heard in the state Supreme Court.
A few caveats: First, some of these provisions aren't in current law — some were in the stimulus bill (like Race to the Top), some are in Arne Duncan's conditional waivers (like teacher evaluations), and some are in one of the bills passed this month (like Title I portability).
The teacher evaluation issue got off to a less than auspicious start when the educator effectiveness report envisioned in the 2011 teacher tenure reform was first slated to be finished April 30, 2012, nine months after Snyder signed the bill into law.
Recent changes to the teacher evaluation law are a first step in the right direction, but will have little impact unless we implement new and better ways to recruit, retain and reward our most talented educators.
After 39 applicants went home losers from the first round of the Race to the Top competition, many states regrouped and raised the stakes for round two — changing laws to revamp teacher evaluations, drumming up more support from districts and teachers» unions, and getting more aggressive about turning around low - performing schools.
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.
And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.
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.
State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the legislator most credited for the new tenure law, said yesterday in some of her first public comments on the regulations that the administration's plans to base 35 percent of certain teachers» evaluations on state test scores, starting next year, may be too ambitious.