Sentences with phrase «make evaluation systems»

My take is that it's primary impact is to make evaluation systems locally negotiated.

The Argus Leader reported that «school boards and the teachers union balked when [the law] made that evaluation system mandatory; they argued local school boards know best» (Verges, 2012, p. 3).

Not exact matches

Once an evaluation system is in place, make sure to follow it and offer it in a constructive manner.

This includes performing ongoing evaluations of our systems containing investor information and making changes when appropriate.

This includes performing ongoing evaluations of our systems containing customer information and making changes when appropriate.

the creation of a $ 20 million pre-market fund to put Ontario's health system to work in the evaluation of emerging «made in Ontario» health technologies;

There are some really good computer ratings systems out there — I even have one of my own that I like quite a bit — and I trust them to make evaluations more than I do my own, or anybody else's, lying eyes.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

Cuomo's current plan includes changes to the teacher - evaluation system — which he calls «baloney» — to make it easier to dismiss bad teachers.

«It makes complete sense to not hold education funding hostage to an evaluation system that has yet to be worked out,» Stewart Cousins said.

The bill proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to make the state's new teacher evaluation system a valuable tool for parents and the public is almost good enough to support.

The biggest sticking points for the union: Changes to the teacher evaluation system, tenure and the 3020A proceedings which make it easier for districts to fire poorly performing teachers.

First, the legislation would make clear that all evaluation systems currently implemented will not sunset by remaining in effect unless there are agreed to changes by the district and local bargaining unit.

Legislators agreed on a new teacher evaluation system in March, but are yet to resolve how much of the information should be made public or available to parents.

I am sorry to announce that I have notified Governor Cuomo and other state officials that — despite long nights of negotiation and a willingness on the part of teachers to meet the DOE halfway — the intransigence of the Bloomberg administration on key issues has made it impossible to reach agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

Year two we linked the teacher evaluations system to a four percent increase in education and we had near unanimous approval we believe that linking the assistance to performance is going to make a difference.

At a Syracuse Media Group editorial board meeting, he sounded his call to toughen the statewide teacher evaluation system and make it easier to remove poor teachers.

At the Oct. 19 Delegate Assembly, the first since the summer break, UFT President Michael Mulgrew reported on principals abusing the teacher evaluation system, the dysfunctional Special Education Student Information System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of system, the dysfunctional Special Education Student Information System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of taxes.

Many have criticized Cuomo for making teacher tenure more difficult and changing the teacher evaluation system.

They say they like a new agreement on teacher evaluations, but a narrow margin say the governor is overall making the problems in the education system worse.

On education, Cuomo is proposing changes to the teacher evaluation system that he says will make public schools more accountable.

«New York City's results prove that Governor Cuomo's evaluation system measures teacher effectiveness when implemented in good faith — making it a critical tool to improve schools for kids.

When New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee last month announced the union's support for the testing boycott, she said her intention was to undermine the state's teacher evaluation system, which Cuomo and lawmakers made more stringent in the recently approved state budget.

When teacher evaluations bear zero resemblance to student learning, which is the case in 4 out of the 5 big school districts, it makes a strong case for Governor Cuomo's improvements to the system.

Parent activist Campbell Brown fumed, «He argues in favor of making life harder for educators by increasing the complexity of the evaluation system for purely political reasons.

The testing question also figures prominently into the debate over teacher performance evaluations, as the governor has proposed making state test results 50 percent — instead of the current 40 percent — of the evaluation system, a move that is strongly opposed by the teachers unions that are closely allied with the Assembly Democrats.

In a statement, Stewart - Cousins criticized Cuomo for «demonizing» teachers in his effort to create a more stringent teacher - evaluation system and make it easier for schools to fire educators deemed low performing.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

«I think we should reevaluate the evaluation system in light of this data, and I don't know that those changes would make a significant difference to this data,» Cuomo said.

At the conference, she also spoke out against the teacher evaluation system backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying that politics should be kept out of education policy - making.

Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

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.

Let's have an evaluation system that's fair, that's purposeful, don't make it a political statement.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

The money came tied to some fundamental changes in public education, among them the adoption of a statewide teacher evaluation system that could make it easier to fire those who log years of poor performance.

The recommendations could ease some of the mandates for teachers and school districts when the evaluation system is made final in the coming months.

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

In a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

When Cuomo convinced the legislature to approve a new teacher evaluation system the relies more on standardized tests, his administration said that the State Board of Regents would have very limited power to make any changes including compliance with a November deadline to come up with new performance reviews.

As for the changes to the teacher evaluation system, testing and standards, Elia said state education officials will continue their review and work with the Legislature to make changes accordingly.

StudentsFirstNY made a number of policy recommendations to address the findings of the report, including the implementation of a robust and comprehensive teacher evaluation system in accordance with State law.

That critical need for funding makes Mayor Bloomberg's actions to torpedo a new teacher evaluation system so reprehensible.

Although the Common Core task force wasn't asked by the governor to review the politically fraught teacher evaluation system, the group had felt compelled to make a recommendation on it, the source familiar with the task force previously told POLITICO New York.

A spokesman said on Friday that Mr. Silver also opposed making changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that would increase the weight of state tests, and opposed increasing the probationary period for teachers to five years from three, as the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, Merryl H. Tisch, proposed in a recent letter to the governor's office.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

The UFT has been trying for two years to negotiate with the DOE to create a teacher evaluation system that will help us help kids — a system whose first priority is making sure that all teachers continually improve.

However, she and the governor made clear that there will be a new evaluation system for teachers in New York City come Sept. 1, one way or another.

CITY HALL — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a groundbreaking agreement Thursday between the state and teachers» union for a new teacher evaluation system that will make New York eligible for nearly $ 1 billion in federal funds.

Some of the technology - focused changes the Assembly pledged to implement include making the functionality of the legislature's bill - tracking system available to the public; creating a web portal that includes all information related to bills, including committee actions and evaluations by outside groups; the creation of a C - Span like legislative television channel; making the content of the legislative library searchable online and modernizing the Assembly's phone system to include digital voicemail boxes.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.