Sentences with phrase «talks over teacher evaluations»

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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.

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.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

In an interview last week, the 32 - year - old Marrocco talked about her path to excellence, a climb marked by a few stepping stones that are often overlooked in debates over teacher evaluation, tenure, and test scores.

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The diversion, as he called it, over teacher evaluations «keeps us from talking about the real issues we face,» such as inadequate funding and lack of meaningful teacher input at schools.