The bill, sponsored
by Rep. Mike Winder, R - West Valley City, relies on a metric called
median growth percentile, or MGP, to identify teachers who show high levels of student
growth on standardized tests.
On May 17, the HSTA - HIDOE Joint Committee presented recommendations, approved
by the Superintendent, to the Board of Education to remove student test scores [measured in the previous version of the evaluation system as
median Student
Growth Percentiles (SPG)-RSB- as required for teacher performance evaluation.