Sentences with phrase «to include student test scores»

The union has been cool to the pilot, especially its plans to include student test scores as part of the teacher evaluations.

The ruling served as an endorsement of the district's efforts to include student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Those reforms include «college - and career - ready standards,» targeted intervention in low - performing schools and new teacher and principal evaluations — that include student test score data.

Capital reported earlier this month that Cuomo might wait until after the budget to make changes to the evaluations, which include student test scores as a measure of performance.

Meanwhile Washington State was also cited by Delisle for not including student test score growth data in its teacher evaluations.

Los Angeles schools chief John Deasy expressed disappointment Wednesday over a robo - call sent this week by the teachers union, urging members not to participate in the district's voluntary performance review system that for the first time includes student test scores in evaluations.

States are required to include student test scores in educator evaluations in order to receive No Child Left Behind waivers, but educators have expressed mounting concerns that they have not had time to transition to the Common Core standards and aligned assessments before being held accountable for student growth.

The union and the district had agreed to include student test scores as part of evaluations, but did not agree on a specific numeric requirement, union officials said at the time.

• 55 % opposes teacher evaluations which include student test scores, a key change pushed by President Obama.

So why not include student test scores — the output of the learning process — in teachers» evaluations?

Also Thursday, the Los Angeles Board of Education formally directed its superintendent, for the first time, to include student test score data as part of teachers» evaluations.

The parts include student test scores and classroom observations.

The new evaluations, set to begin in the 2009 — 10 school year, will include student test scores and five classroom observations of each teacher each year.

Chief among these were common standards and the assessments to go with them, and increased teacher accountability through new evaluation systems that included student test scores.

The federal government's Race to the Top competition had states vie for cash by doing such things as formalizing their teacher evaluations to include student test scores.

Moved in part by this report, Arne Duncan went on to use two tools at his disposal — Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers — to pressure states to reform their teacher evaluation systems and to include student test scores in these evaluations.

If a state chooses to do so, it does not have to include student test scores.

After learning more about the school and after analyzing student outcome data (including student test scores and attendance and retention rates) for the last few years, you decide that it is important to engage the Team, perhaps the whole faculty, in an analysis of student outcomes.

Attorneys for Students Matter said after the lawsuit was filed, nine of the 13 school districts changed their teacher evaluation policies, practices or collective bargaining agreements to include student test scores.

In addition, the evaluations of about 20 percent of educators — those who teach math and language arts in third through eighth grades — include student test scores.

The L.A. Unified School District has responded fairly with a voluntary teacher performance review system that includes student test scores as one element.

Documented student results better than those of comparable schools on a wide range of measures, including student test scores, student performances and demonstrations, success in later life, lower dropout rates, and parent and student satisfaction.

He said he is open to revising the law that grants teachers tenure after two years and including student test scores as «a tool in the toolbox of teacher evaluation.»

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.

At least 30 states have passed laws requiring new evaluation systems, but many cities are experiencing pushback from teachers and unions, particularly on requirements to include student test scores as a part of a teacher's rating.

As an advocate for the Indiana State Teachers Association prior to her election, Ritz said she spent more than 150 hours working behind the scenes with legislators and Bennett's office in 2011 crafting language for the law that mandated all teachers have annual performance reviews that include student test scores as a factor and lead to one of four ratings — highly effective, effective, improvement necessary and ineffective.

The accountability era began in earnest in 2002 with the passage of the federal law known as No Child Left Behind, which required states to administer annual reading and math tests to children in grades three through eight and once in high school, and it continued with the Obama administration's push to include student test scores in teacher evaluations.

LA mayor backs weighing student performance in evaluating teacher quality CNN: The Los Angeles Unified School District has been reviewing a system of teacher and administrator evaluations that, for the first time, includes student test scores, said spokeswoman Ellen Morgan.

Executive chairman Ron Huberman said in May that examples of the data include student test scores, teacher observation and evaluation data or student survey data.

The board voted 6 to 0, with one member absent, to call for using multiple measures — including student test scores, professional observations and other measures — to evaluate teachers.

Tennessee was one of the first to win the competition, nabbing $ 500 million to adopt the Common Core, revamp teacher evaluation systems to include student test scores, improve the worst - performing schools and increase the number of charter schools.

A three - year district profile that includes student test scores, teacher evaluation data, dropout rates, minority college attendance rates, demographics in Advanced Placement / IB classes, and other key indicators of district performance.

WRT getting rid of ineffective teachers, the problem as I see it is that every evaluation method seems to include student test scores as one of (if not the only) criteria for... judging efficacy.

Eaton added that Texas lawmakers considered but did not enact legislation this year that would have included student test scores as part of the teacher's evaluation.

41 states require or recommend that teachers be evaluated using more than one measure of performance, which may include student test scores, classroom observations, student surveys, lesson plan reviews and teacher self - assessments.