At 9 a.m., the state Education Departmentis kicks off an all - day «Learning Summit» on
teacher and principal evaluation today.
Not exact matches
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leaders Dean Skelos
and Jeff Klein,
and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
today detailed an agreement to guarantee every school district has a permanent
teacher and principal evaluation system in place by June 1st.
Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in
today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward
teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests
and the reviews of
principals.
Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013
teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its
teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).
All of this
teacher evaluation craziness, in my opinion, is an attempt to
principal - proof our schools — to go around our
principals, because many lawmakers,
teachers,
and reformers agree that
today's
principals aren't up to the job of leading.
New York, March 7, 2012 - A month after Governor Cuomo
and union leaders agreed to a new statewide
teacher evaluation system, Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) members
today unveiled their recommendations to strengthen the
evaluation of public school
principals, a system required under the state's winning Race to the Top application.
The extent to which
principals today are constrained in their
evaluation and dismissal decisions by the quality
and size of the
teacher labor supply is not obvious
and probably varies by grade level, content area,
and geographic location.
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.
Today is the local Chicago hearing on a proposed new
teacher and principal evaluation plan.
Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013
teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its
teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).
In most public schools
today,
teachers are simply rated «satisfactory» or «unsatisfactory,»
and evaluations consist of having the
principal observe a class for a few minutes a couple of times each year.