Sentences with phrase «on a new teacher evaluation»

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.

NYC schools will lose $ 300 million if leaders from the UFT and DOE don't agree on a new teacher evaluation system by January 17th.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director [email protected] 212-257-4350 New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Want Deal on New Teacher Evaluation System New Poll Shows Robust and Resilient Support; No Excuse Seen for Losing $ 300 million New York (Nov. 29, 2012)-- A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular, according to a new poll released today by StudentsFirstNY, the education reform advocacy group, and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Research.

«If he's really interested in improving the schools his administration has mishandled, he will send his negotiators back to the bargaining table to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation process for these schools,» he said.

Read the full article View the poll results Sign the petition urging city officials and teachers union leaders to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective teachers and an agreement between the City and the teachers» union on a new teacher evaluation system.

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.

Today, StudentsFirstNY launched a citywide TV and social media campaign to urge city officials and teachers union leaders to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system before the January 17 deadline.

StudentsFirstNY launched a citywide campaign to urge local leaders to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

In a recent op - ed published by the New York Daily News, the father of two Brooklyn public school students gives a first - hand account of just how important it is that the teachers» union and City officials come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation deal.

Join this NYC parent and others in urging city officials and the teachers» union to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

A judge has temporarily blocked the state from withholding approximately $ 250 million in school aid from New York City as a penalty for the city's failure to reach agreement with the UFT on a new teacher evaluation system by the Jan. 17 deadline.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he will push to restore the approximately $ 250 million in aid that the state plans to withhold from New York City as a penalty for the city's failure to reach agreement with the UFT on a new teacher evaluation system by the Jan. 17 deadline.

MANHATTAN — Negotiations between the city and the teachers union on a new teacher evaluation system fell apart Friday, prompting the State Department of Education to suspend more than $ 60 million in federal funding that had been targeted at some of the city's worst - performing schools.

If he's really interested in improving the schools his administration has mishandled, he will send his negotiators back to the table to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation process.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

Now the DOE will work overtime to spin doctor the failure to reach an agreement on new teacher evaluations, mandated by New York State's version of Race to the Top, as the fault of Michael Mulgrew and union leadership.

The group's recommendations include increasing the starting salary by a third; creating a «career ladder» so teachers can be rewarded for strong performance without leaving the classroom; introducing bonuses for teachers who receive top ratings on new teacher evaluations; and paying more to draw teachers to hard - to - staff subjects, such as science or special education.

In a letter addressed to Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and the teachers union president Michael Mulgrew that was delivered last week, teachers petitioned the two sides to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system that would fulfill the requirements of the federal grant and allow the state to restore their financing.

Teachers in Watebury were told recently there is no way they can be rated «exemplary» on the new teacher evaluation plan because the use of student test scores will prevent that.

Here is Arthur Goldstein informing his fellow teachers on the new teacher evaluation system.

On November 17th, more than one hundred parents and students stood on the steps of City Hall to urge the teachers» union and the Department of Education to agree on a new teacher evaluation system.

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He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

State Commissioner John King suspended federal improvement grant funding for 10 districts — including NYC — that failed to live up to their commitment to reach agreements with their teacher and principal unions on new performance evaluations).

An anonymous Senate Republican, who does not represent New York City, said his conference is growing aggravated by Mayor Bloomberg's «do - or - die» approach to lobbying on key issues - including the release of teacher performance evaluation data — an issue he lost on to the teachers» unions.

School districts are due to adopt the new teacher evaluation criteria by November or miss out on a boost in education aid.

The bill is backed by the New York State United Teachers union, which had opposed the reliance on examinations in teacher evaluations.

-- MaryEllen Elia, the new education commissioner, shares her views on teacher evaluations.

Lawmakers unveiled plans to extend deadlines for developing new teacher evaluation criteria as well as changing how state funding is distributed, so districts won't lose out on money if they don't adopt the new evaluations.

New York's current law — pushed by Cuomo in April — allows districts to base up to about half of teachers» annual evaluations on «growth scores» generated by a complex numerical formula.

Cuomo pushes through toughened law on teacher evaluations, setting a January 2013 deadline for school districts to put new job ratings into effect.

Effective NY founder and Democratic donor Bill Samuels on Monday is releasing a letter to Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch blasting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approach to the state's new teacher evaluation criteria.

Cuomo is linking up to $ 1.1 billion in new spending for education to enacting a number of his education reform proposals, including lifting the cap on charter schools and a new, more stringent teacher evaluation process.

NYU Prof. Diane Ravitch on today's teacher evaluation deal: «This is a dark day for education in New York.»

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

New York State United Teachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his caTeachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his cateachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his campaigns.

At least going by his rhetoric, he seems to have almost declared war on the teacher unions and he has proposed a new system of evaluation, which is more heavily based on students» tests scores than the one currently in use.

But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on public school teachers.

Silver says the Assembly's budget plan, due out March 11, will restore $ 260 million dollars Cuomo cut to New York City schools, after they failed to meet the governor's deadline to agree on a teacher evaluation plan.

ALBANY — With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Speaker Carl Heastie told POLITICO New York on Thursday.

Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state exams, and changes to teacher tenure.

A task force by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

Walcott warned that his successor will be in a «unique» situation after he leaves on Dec. 31, jumping in mid-year to take over «a lot of new things that [are] in process right now, like our teacher evaluation, the total ramping up of the new Common Core and making sure we continue in our special ed reform.

Also yesterday, the Assembly passed legislation to institute a new teacher - evaluation system that will grade instructors in part on students» performances on standardized English and math exams.

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.

The Board of Regents» new leaders launched an inquiry Monday into the validity of the state test system and its links to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following a second annual round of massive exam boycotts on Long Island and across the state.

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«Most teachers would do well on any evaluation system, but the union seems intent on watering down our new system to safeguard its lowest performing members, no matter the costs to students.

Several members of the state Board of Regents sharply criticized a new teacher evaluation system forced on them by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Legislature a month ago.