Sentences with phrase «ineffective evaluation law»

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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.

Colorado rewrote its laws on teacher evaluation and tenure so that half of an educator's rating is based on student performance, and ineffective teachers can be dismissed more easily.

But we also know that Colorado's law immediately wiped out an arcane and ineffective evaluation and tenure system, which has governed most of the nation's schools for more than 50 years.

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.»

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»