The most high profile of these conflicts center on Indiana's new school voucher program and
mandatory teacher evaluation law.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett says what makes Indiana different from other states who have implemented
mandatory teacher evaluation laws is that the Department of Education hasn't specified an assessment tool for districts to use.
Not exact matches
Before parents and
teachers could react, unproven concepts such as a high stakes tests
mandatory grade retention, for profit charter schools, vouchers, A-F school / district grades and tying
teacher evaluations to test scores were signed into
law at a rapid pace.
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).
They failed to realize that under current bargaining
laws,
teacher evaluation was not a
mandatory subject of bargaining!