Sentences with phrase «key personnel decisions»

States and school districts are using the evaluation systems to make key personnel decisions about retention, dismissal, and compensation of teachers and principals.

More than 20 states now require that student test - score gains be used in key personnel decisions, often including tenure and salary determinations.

To determine the efficacy of the use of data from student test scores, particularly in the form of Value - Added Measures (VAMs), to evaluate and to make key personnel decisions about classroom teachers.

Teachers unions have vociferously argued that test scores are too unreliable for use in key personnel decisions.

Enshrined in state law and detailed in teachers» union contracts, the prerogatives of seniority continue to guide many of the key personnel decisions made in public schools across the country, including pay and assignments.

Instead, the approach has always been that governors nominate and legislatures approved the members of the various boards who then have the duty to make the key personnel decisions removed, or at least somewhat, from the realm of partisan and personal politics.