Sentences with phrase «mandated educator evaluations»

• End federally mandated educator evaluations (imposed by NCLB waivers) and support educator effectiveness with more options for professional development.

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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.

New mandated evaluations are rolling out this fall for New York teachers and a local teachers union official says educators are likely nervous.

The vast majority of Indiana educators received «effective» or «highly effective» ratings during the first year of state - mandated teacher evaluations.

The new law prohibits the federal government from mandating teacher evaluations or defining what an «effective» teacher is and calls for many decisions for local schools and states be determined by collaboration between educators, parents and other community members.

With the introduction of new evaluation systems, district mandates, and Common Core, we need to ask ourselves, as educators: For what?

Connecticut's superintendents should follow the lead of their New York colleagues and demand that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly repeal the law they developed mandating that student achievement data from standardized tests be used as part of the educator evaluation process.

This bill further provides that an educator is not: (1) Required to spend the educator's personal money to appropriately equip a classroom; (2) Evaluated by professionals, under the teacher evaluation advisory committee, without the same subject matter expertise as the educator; (3) Evaluated based on the performance of students whom the educator has never taught; or (4) Relocated to a different school based solely on test scores from state mandated assessments.

Donaldson added that the situation has led to «classroom teachers in the pilot schools coming to very different understandings of what is expected of them» under the new state evaluation guidelines — a system scheduled to be mandated for all educators next year.

Deven Carlson, a political science professor at the University of Oklahoma who studies how states are integrating the Common Core into their existing accountability systems, sees the teacher evaluation system as one of the central grievances of the New York parents and students, who — with some help from educators and the teachers union — orchestrated the largest sit - out of annual state tests since the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind Act that mandated them.