Sentences with phrase «over teacher evaluations between»

He inherited a deadlocked negotiation over teacher evaluations between the Bloomberg administration and the United Federation of Teachers that exposed the state to the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds.

Not exact matches

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

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.

Other things to watch out for as the session comes to a close: The budget «clean - up» bill, a fight between Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos and his co-leader, Jeff Klein, over a plan to lower NYC's speed limit, teacher evaluation talks, and the home health aide program bill backed by 1199.

King is the focal point in a dispute between the BTF and the state over teacher evaluations.

Topics ranged from the use of standardized testing and school co-location, to school closures and the recent gridlock between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the UFT over teacher evaluations.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

Takes issue with Phil Rumore's characterization of the dispute between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and the state Department of Education over teacher evaluations.

Bennett in the interview: Takes issue with Phil Rumore's characterization of the dispute between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and the state Department of Education over teacher evaluations.

The state's Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has decided to grant the UFT's request for the appointment of a mediator to help break the impasse between the union and the Department of Education over teacher evaluations in 33 schools.

Bitter fights over things like teacher evaluation reform and testing have only worsened divides between practitioners and policymakers.

Long - simmering battles flared up between Albany, New York City, and the unions over teacher evaluation.

For instance, in the case of the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, the group's website boasts that the tool was the result of 5,000 studies over five decades and other research, including correlation analysis between teaching strategies and student achievement.

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

The campaign comes at a time when public education is increasingly riven by battles over the use of standardized testing in teacher performance evaluations and the rollout of the Common Core, new benchmarks for what students need to know and be able to do between kindergarten and the end of high school.

Ama Nyamekye, executive director of the educators group, said her members hoped to break the current stalemate between L.A. Unified and United Teachers Los Angeles over the district's new evaluation system.

Negotiations between the city and union over new teacher evaluations broke down in December.

Rhee has also criticized the tentative agreement between UTLA and LAUSD over teacher evaluations, which includes student achievement but leaves several key details unknown and is set for a rank - and - file vote next week.

For example, over a three - year period between 2006 and 2008, more than 98 percent of Denver Public Schools teachers received a «Satisfactory» rating in the district's binary evaluation system.