Sentences with phrase «link tenure decisions»

Building on this work, New Jersey's historic 2012 TEACHNJ Act — unanimously approved by the State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Christie — mandates many requirements for the new statewide educator evaluation system and links tenure decisions to evaluation ratings.

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This law defines certain requirements and structures for the new evaluation system in New Jersey, and requires that tenure decisions be linked to evaluation outcomes.

He said the state simply prohibits the linking of student data to decisions on teacher tenure, not teacher effectiveness.

Jane Urschel, associate executive director of the Colorado Association of School Boards, said previous attempts to change the evaluation system have failed over the years but this is the first time anyone proposed linking evaluations to tenure decisions.

In a speech to New York's state legislature last November, Mayor Bloomberg praised «data - driven systems» while arguing that student test scores should be linked to teacher tenure decisions.

The revisions also drew criticism from Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, who said that aside from reducing funding for the bill, the committees also stripped it of some of its key elements, such as provisions linking teacher evaluations to decisions on tenure.

Some states plan to link these effectiveness levels to important decisions, such as requiring a level 2 performance to earn the professional license and requiring a higher level 3 performance to earn tenure.

As a number of states begin to revamp their tenure - granting policies, the idea that high - stakes personnel decisions need to be linked to direct measures of teacher effectiveness is gaining traction among education policymakers.

This 2011 report surveys recently passed teacher evaluation policies in five states and rates each on the law's strengths and weaknesses in teacher evaluation design requirements, transparency and public reporting of evaluation data, principal autonomy over teacher hiring and placement, and the extent to which the law links teacher evaluation results to key personnel decisions, including tenure, reductions in force, dismissal of underperforming teachers, and retention.