Sentences with phrase «removing state test scores»

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A sticking point is how many years and for which school years the state would remove Common Core - aligned test scores from consideration in the teacher evaluations.

Reacting to the rising criticisms directed toward PACT, voters may have grown disenchanted with the state's accountability system and removed test - score performance from among the criteria on which they evaluated school board candidates.

Student scores have improved overall, and 26 schools were removed from the state's «failing» list based on improved scores on state tests.

Part of the state's plan to improve Priority and Focus Schools (schools that have consistently low test scores) include removing ineffective principals or giving them mentors from better performing schools, implementing anti-bullying programs or other programs to improve school culture, improving recruiting and hiring techniques for teachers and providing more teacher development.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

Lawmakers are considering a bill that removes the most punitive consequences for schools and makes clear that states do not have to use test scores to evaluate teachers.

These four points are so compelling to education reformers, Brill describes, that Race To The Top was designed as a way to encourage states to change their laws to remove charter caps and to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

The state's move to remove test scores from teacher ratings came amid growing public outcry against Common Core academic standards used in the state exams.

Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña unveiled an update to the city's teacher evaluation system Wednesday, a year after state policy makers removed test scores from consideration in most teacher ratings.

The new federal law, however, removed the incentives to connect test scores to teacher evaluation, and already there have been efforts in several states to eliminate such requirements.