Sentences with phrase «own teacher evaluation bill»

Joe Morelle was majority leader when the Assembly Democrats passed an onerous teacher evaluation bill that was pro-student testing.

There have been some previous allusions to Wisconsin here in New York — particularly around the topic of repealing LIFO, although that cooled down after Cuomo proposed his compomise statwide teacher evaluation bill (still a topic of debate in the budget).

That might have led to the governor's hasty announcement of his own teacher evaluation bill, the senator speculated.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed the teacher evaluation bill into law.

The Bloomberg administration just released a memo from Deputy Education Chancellor John White, outlining how Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed teacher evaluation bill won't change the current last in, first out layoff requirement that the mayor has been pushing to change.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's teacher evaluation bill has passed the state Senate.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is «disappointed» that the teacher evaluation bill just passed by both houses of the Legislature because it doesn't meet «full disclosure.»

Again, like the teacher evaluation bill, it gave some people what they wanted and others not.

In late April, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a San Diego Democrat, presented a modest teacher evaluation bill, Assembly Bill 1495, in the Assembly Education Committee.

E4E - Los Angeles 2013 Teacher Policy Team member Phylis Hoffman joins a parent and fellow teacher in arguing for a teacher evaluation bill that is both pro-...

Brown signs bill spelling out evaluations (for principals) Ed Source: Without the acrimony and fanfare that doomed a teacher evaluation bill last month, the Legislature with near unanimity passed and Gov. Brown has now signed a milestone principal and teacher evaluation bill.

Not exact matches

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver commended Senate Republicans for taking up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's teacher evaluation disclosure bill, while also patting his colleagues on the back for what he considers a session that «changed the dynamics.»

Chancellor Merryl Tisch disagrees with Cuomo's claim that it's not «urgent» for the Legislature to pass a bill dictating rules for the release of teacher performance evaluation information.

Newsday deems Cuomo's teacher evaluation data bill introduced this week «almost good enough to support.»

The measure is opposed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose lobbying efforts today have already been setback after the GOP - led Senate announced it would take up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's teacher evaluation disclosure bill, a measure his office also opposes.

Nixon on Thursday called for an overhaul of the state's teacher evaluation law as the Assembly introduces a bill that would remove state examinations from a teachers» performance review criteria.

Republicans in the state Senate have introduced a «same as» bill that would decouple state - based standardized examinations from teacher and principle evaluations — suggesting the measure strongly backed by the state's teachers union stands a strong chance of advancing in Albany.

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

Lawmakers in both houses in recent weeks have introduced bills designed to ease aspects of the education policies in the budget, ranging from a codification of students opting out of state tests to exempting top - performing school districts from the new teacher evaluation criteria.

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the Assembly will take up a bill Wednesday to decouple the results of standardized student test scores from teacher evaluations.

The bill, he said, did not «fix the foundational issues with the teacher evaluation system.»

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.

«Assemblywoman Nolan's version of the bill provides the Regents an extension until November 2015 and provides adequate time for local districts to negotiate teacher evaluation plans.

Bloomberg said that while he was «glad» that Cuomo was helping to speed up the issue of teacher evaluations, he hoped the governor would make the LIFO bill a priority.

The bill proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to make the state's new teacher evaluation system a valuable tool for parents and the public is almost good enough to support.

Last week, we were confronted with a bill presented by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conference that would essentially provide for a two - year moratorium on the APPR (teacher evaluations) while establishing some restrictions regarding use of a student's personal data.

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.

A bill backed by Republican Sen. Jack Martins would exempt the state's top performing school districts from the newly approved teacher evaluation criteria.

Senate Democrats aren't the only ones seeking changes to what was approved in the budget: Republicans and Democrats in both chambers have introduced bills aimed at extending the deadline for developing regulations for the teacher evaluations as well unlinking the enactment of the standards on the local level to a boost in school aid.

At the Red Room press conference where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic legislative leaders — minus Skelos — had announced the med - mar deal, Klein said a vote would be held Thursday evening on the bill, along with bills that would create a 25 mph in New York City and adjust the state's teacher evaluation law.

The unfinished progressive priorities Cuomo set for himself after negotiating the state budget and in the State of the State were mere afterthoughts in the last week, when lawmakers instead focused on some lower - hanging fruit: a package to combat the heroin epidemic, a pause on Common Core - based teacher evaluations and a bill to let New York City reduce its speed limit to 25 m.p.h.

ALBANY — On the last night of the legislative session, lawmakers in Albany passed a flurry of bills, including a measure that would lower New York City's speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour, and alter the state's current teacher evaluations system.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters at a 1 p.m. news conference that he was through negotiating with lawmakers his teacher evaluation disclosure bill, saying the measure he introduced late last night won't be altered this week.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested he won't sign a «safety net» bill that would shield educators from consequences of the rough rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, citing new teacher - evaluation data released on Tuesday.

However, the governor did submit a bill just before midnight Monday that would provide a limited disclosure of teacher evaluations.

This leaves two major items unfinished — a bill restricting the release of teacher evaluations and changes to marijuana laws to prevent some arrests under New York City's «stop - and - frisk program» — and should ensure the orderly close to the legislative session, scheduled to end Thursday, that many predict.

ALBANY — The final budget bill containing education funding and policy, introduced on Tuesday afternoon, included modified versions of many of Governor Andrew Cuomo's original reform proposals, including an overhauled teacher evaluation system.

Senate Republicans, after a closed door meeting, agreed to take up Governor Cuomo's bill to make public all teacher evaluations, without names attached.

The strategy succeeded when it came to a bill to regulate the public disclosure of teacher evaluations.

Lawmakers in the final hours agreed to approve the governor's bill to publicly disclose teacher evaluations, but Cuomo failed to persuade the Republican led Senate to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

When the Senate Republicans ultimately agreed to the evaluation disclosure bill, they went against the wishes of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who had sought greater disclosure of teacher scores.

Written like a press release from New York State United Teachers, the bill pushes for a three - year moratorium on using student scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions — principally, teacher evaluations.

Governor Cuomo is telling the legislature to «take it or leave it» over a new bill he's released new bill outlining how to make teacher evaluations public.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says the New York state Assembly will take up a bill Wednesday to decouple the results of standardized test scores from teacher evaluations.

DeMartini's statement came just hours after Cuomo's second legislative session came to an end with the passage of the governor's bill that restricted to parents the public disclosure of the new teacher - evaluation ratings that will soon be required.

During the 84 - minute speech, Cuomo largely focused on education, proposing to increase school aid by $ 1 billion, increase reliance on teacher evaluations and tie the education investment tax credit to the Dream Act, a bill that would open state tuition assistance programs to undocumented students.

The bill as introduced by the governor would allow parents and legal guardians to view teacher and principal evaluations.

Though he told former Gov. David Paterson in a radio interview yesterday that he felt a bill dealing with the disclosure of teacher evaluations could be put on hold, Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced his own program bill early Tuesday morning anyway.

Obama signed «Every Student Succeeds,» a new bipartisan education bill that scraps the program by giving states more power to decide testing and teacher evaluations.

«I am introducing my bill, the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Disclosure Act, for consideration by the Senate and the Assembly,» Cuomo said in a statement sent after midnight.