An investor managing this portfolio would generally be better off investing in the reference ETF portfolio instead, at least
over this evaluation interval.
After the months spent in the last school year in a fight over teacher evaluations, the district stands to lose nearly $ 59 million in this year's
fight over evaluations.
Washington Post article: Lawsuit: Stop evaluating teachers on test scores of students they never taught (update) New York Times: Florida: Teachers Sue Over Evaluation System
After that, the combination of unenlightened leadership and
stress over the evaluations began to kick in, and productivity began to drop.
This year's state exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking this week, immediately follow a bitter battle between Cuomo and teachers»
unions over evaluations as well as tenure, merit pay and turnaround strategies for chronically underperforming schools.
For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract
dispute over evaluation...
First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a
lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).
Talks over the evaluations broke down in the city last month when Department of Education officials refused to consider the UFT's insistence that teachers who receive poor ratings be allowed to appeal them to an independent arbitrator.
Cuomo and NYSUT have been at
odds over the evaluation push, as well as the governor's strong support for charter schools as an alternative to the present public education system.
The recent groundbreaking
agreement over evaluations for educators in the Los Angeles school district is a major victory for the teachers union because it limits the use of a controversial — but increasingly widespread — measurement of teacher effectiveness.
Extreme chronic absenteeism (absent more than 20 percent of all school days) decreased in five of the eight KSSN
schools over the evaluation period.
Union officials say they expect to see more lawsuits in the future,
especially over evaluations that use complex and controversial algorithms — called «value - added models» — to figure out how much of a student's learning can be attributed to their teacher.
The latest foray into the courtroom began Feb. 13, when New Mexico teachers sued state
officials over an evaluation system that relies heavily on student test scores.
Wakelyn framed New York State's shortcomings on Race to the Top, which earned an official warning from the federal government last month, as «implementation issues» and he didn't get into the state - level labor - management dispute that has
hung over the evaluations stalemate.
2011 JUNE: New York State United Teachers
sue over evaluation regulations adopted by the state's board of regents, saying they conflict with the law and put too much emphasis on state tests over locally designed measures.
As NYC Educator pointed out in his latest piece, Unity's shiny new talking point is that they want principals not to have total
control over evaluations.
Surmounting partisan
differences over evaluation systems, leaders in Maryland are moving forward purposefully with a new kind of broad - based agreement that focuses on supporting frontline educators.
A staggering number of apps simply don't appear in any position one of the 39,171 App Store top lists on at least two out of three
days over the evaluation period of one month.
Starting now and into the foreseeable future let us
stress over your evaluations and notoriety in school, school, and college or even graduate school.
Last spring, after Albany's long season of scandals, plus a battering from the state teachers
union over evaluations and Common Core, the governor was on the defensive, his poll numbers falling.
He compared
concerns over the evaluations to a recent controversy over a new, more difficult teacher certification exam that assesses prospective teachers» performance in the classroom.
«The topic of principal evaluations has largely been ignored in the current
debate over evaluations, but teachers want to see principals lead by example and that is why we need an evaluation system that not only will help principals improve, but also increase accountability and ensure that teachers are fully supported.
CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract
dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.
Investor return measures the compound growth rate in the value of all dollars invested in the
fund over the evaluation period.
Over this evaluation period, the fund had major equivalent positions in the iShares MSCI EAFE Small - Cap ETF (SCZ), iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF (EFG), iShares International Treasury Bond ETF (IGOV), MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF (DBEF), iShares MSCI Sweden ETF (EWD), and iShares MSCI Ireland Capped ETF (EIRL).
And if the strike is
over evaluation, it becomes more and more challenging to secure a 16 - percent raise in tough economic times, and then say one doesn't believe in greater accountability for those educators serving in the system and demanding those raises.
(While the performance of the fund itself is less important in the context of this discussion, it can be noted that
over the evaluation interval the fund added a modest amount of value on a risk - adjusted basis, and so did the hypothetical portfolio that contained it.)