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New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

Democratic lawmakers, who are closely aligned with teachers» unions but have mixed opinions on whether to support the movement, argued nevertheless that this year's testing boycott would send a specific message to the State Board of Regents: Minimize the impact of test scores in teacher evaluations.

While Mr. Gamberg and the school board have agreed there are some good elements to Common Core, they've also been one of the more outspoken school districts on the North Fork to oppose the state's mandate that ties teacher evaluations to state assessment scores.

The Board of Regents, with Cuomo's support, recently placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores for teacher evaluations through the 2018 - 19 school year.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

The resolution up for discussion in Comsewogue says the board «will seriously consider not administering the New York State standardized ELA and math exams in grades 3 - 8, and the science exam in grades 4 and 8,» citing disagreement with state funding and the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scores.

The board released only overall scores based on individual evaluations from all nine members, saying Cash earned 2.95 out of 4.0 points overall.

Already, the board has put in place a four - year moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher evaluations.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

In a move that few would have predicted a year ago, the State Board of Regents on Dec. 14 voted nearly unanimously to eliminate state - provided growth scores based on state test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

In a move that few would have predicted a year ago, the State Board of Regents on Dec. 14 voted nearly unanimously to eliminate state - provided growth scores based on state standardized test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

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.

New York's discussion of teacher discipline comes one week after the state's Board of Regents voted to adapt a new teacher evaluation system that requires districts to use standardized test scores to evaluate 40 percent of teacher review scores — 20 percent from state tests, with the other 20 precent from either district or state tests.

The petition tracks language adopted unanimously by the Knox County School Board, which passed a resolution last week opposing the use of student test scores in teacher evaluation for this academic year.

Deasy Wants 30 % of Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30 % of a teacher's evaluation will be based on student test scores, setting off more contention in the nation's second - largest school system in the weeks before a critical Board of Education eleScores L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30 % of a teacher's evaluation will be based on student test scores, setting off more contention in the nation's second - largest school system in the weeks before a critical Board of Education elescores, setting off more contention in the nation's second - largest school system in the weeks before a critical Board of Education election.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

«I am extremely disappointed in the feds and their insistence on tying teacher evaluations to standardized tests scores,» she told fellow members of the Oregon Education Investment Board, which oversees education from preschool through universities, at a meeting last week.

The Tennessean reports that Metro school officials said at a school board meeting this week that 195 out of about 6,000 Nashville teachers got a score of 1 out of 5 on state - mandated evaluations during the 2011 - 2012 school year.

After years of intense opposition from teachers unions, the State Board of Education reversed course and voted Wednesday to eliminate a requirement that state standardized test scores be used in teacher evaluations.

Joseph Vrabely, an education board member, said he didn't understand why years after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made linking test scores to teacher evaluations a centerpiece of his education reform plans, the board was now considering a «total divorce» from the policy.

The union's president, Margaret Gibbons, said that they did so «primarily because the board is opposed to tying teacher compensation and evaluation to a student's test score,» -LSB-...]

Bennett is putting together a board that will assist him in determining whether to authorize charter schools, and he envisions a separate evaluation committee that would score and make recommendations to the board.

Armed with a court order mandating the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy now faces the tough job of selling his achievement - based review system to the district's teachers, union leaders and even its school board members.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

Gray areas in the law, though, led New York State United Teachers and the state board of regents into a lawsuit over the precise weight that could be given to students» standardized - test scores in the evaluation system.

The state Education Department and Board of Regents also wants to bring back the use of test scores in evaluations.

In a guest editorial in Educational Leadership 20 years ago (April 1989), Art Costa suggested five approaches to «reassessing assessment»: (1) reestablish the school as the locus of accountability; (2) expand the range and variety of the assessment techniques used; (3) systematize this variety of assessment procedures by developing schoolwide plans for collection and use of information; (4) reeducate legislators, parents, board members, and the community to help them understand that standardized test scores are inadequate indicators of the quality of schools, teachers, and students; and (5) remind ourselves that the purpose of evaluation is to enable students to evaluate themselves.

Some of the support can be ascribed to the fact that both Brown and the State Board of Education did not succumb to pressures from both the Obama administration and advocacy organizations to apply for waivers from the No Child Left Behind that would have required the state to link teacher evaluations to student test scores or other measures of «student academic growth.»

StudentsFirstNY, an advocacy group that promotes charter schools and other education reforms, on whose board several of those donors sit, strongly endorsed the governor's campaign to make test scores matter more in evaluations, saying the existing system bore «zero resemblance» to how students themselves were performing across the state.

The union's president, Margaret Gibbons, said that they did so «primarily because the board is opposed to tying teacher compensation and evaluation to a student's test score,» but also because «In addition, we [opposed] states competing for funding.

First, we propose that the state board of education issue a moratorium stating that the first year of tests scores will not be used on teacher evaluations.

As part of a state budget deal in March, the Legislature created a framework for evaluations that increased the role of test scores, but it left the precise weight of scores on state versus local tests to the Board of Regents, whose members the Legislature selects.

Two members of the Board of Regents, the body that sets state education policy, said they had also heard that Mr. Cuomo was urging a moratorium on the use of test scores in evaluations.

The Board of Regents would quite likely approve a moratorium or any other step to reduce the role of test scores in evaluations.

On May 17, the HSTA - HIDOE Joint Committee presented recommendations, approved by the Superintendent, to the Board of Education to remove student test scores [measured in the previous version of the evaluation system as median Student Growth Percentiles (SPG)-RSB- as required for teacher performance evaluation.

They won seats in 2013 on the five - member board and moved quickly to institute controversial school reforms, including a merit pay system for teachers and an educator evaluation system that used student test scores.

It's significant that PEAC's recommendation is unanimous, for 2 reasons: First, it appears that the leadership shown by CEA last year in striving to work with PEAC members to have deeper discussions about the issues has been successful, which, in turn has brought a more clear understanding of the negative impact brought about by including mastery test scores in teacher evaluation; and second, a unanimous decision will, hopefully, have a greater impact on the way the State Board of Education discusses and reviews the recommendation.

When he found out the board was weighing giving districts the option to count test scores for up to 40 percent of evaluations at the last second, he decided to take action.

The complaint seeks an injunction to halt the implementation of the board's new regulations that would allow state test scores to count for up to 40 percent of teacher evaluations.

Board president calculates overall evaluation score based on professional practice, progress toward district - wide improvement goals and student growth ratings.

PEAC unanimously agreed recommending to the State Board of Education to continue the practice of not requiring mastery exam scores in teachers» evaluations for the next academic year.

Earlier this summer, the New York State Board of Regents adopted regulations saying that state test scores could count for up to 40 percent of evaluations.

Also Thursday, the Los Angeles Board of Education formally directed its superintendent, for the first time, to include student test score data as part of teachers» evaluations.

As a result of Superintendent Scarice's leadership, the democratically elected members of the Madison School board, with the participation of teachers, parents and the community, developed a model teacher evaluation system that did not include the use of standardized tests scores.

The short version of what she wants to do now is this — double down on test scores and strip away the power of local school boards to negotiate the majority of the evaluation plan.

That said, the Board recently announced they are working on a resolution calling for more transparency in the TVAAS system used to create scores for teacher evaluation.

The city's new take on teacher ratings comes roughly a year after the state Board of Regents moved to suspend the use of standardized test scores in most teacher evaluations.