Sentences with phrase «teacher evaluation data bill»
Newsday deems Cuomo's teacher evaluation data bill introduced this week «almost good enough to support.»
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
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.
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.
Thursday's LA Times editorial about the use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations around the country (Bill Gates» warning on test scores) makes some valuable points about the dangers of rushed, half - baked teacher evaluation schemes that count test scores as more than half of a teacher's evaluation (as is being done in some states and districts)...
The study was a fallback when a bill by the governor, and sponsored by Hoffmann, would have allowed school officials to use test data as they chose on teacher evaluations failed to gain traction in the Legislature.
As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.
The bill makes no explicit requirement of the use of data on student growth over time in teacher evaluation and requires every element of the evaluation system to be locally negotiated.
On another front, the bill would prohibit the kind of public release of teacher evaluation data that has set off storms of protest in New York City, where individual ratings for 18,000 teachers were posted on line.
Based on financial data collected through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's initiative to build comprehensive educator evaluation systems, Harvard professor Tom Kane estimates that done well, a high quality teacher evaluation system is likely to consume two percent of a school district's budget.
The bill would «exclude student performance data on the Smarter Balanced Assessment from teacher performance evaluations.»
The bill requires the department of education to provide all state board of education approved teacher training programs access to annual evaluation data for teachers and principals graduating from the programs for a minimum of five years following the completion of the program.
This bill deals with assessment data that are used in overall teacher evaluations.
As per a recent article in the Tennessee Education Report (see also an article in The Tennessean here) Governor Bill Haslam announced this week that «he will be proposing changes to the state's teacher evaluation process in the 2015 legislative session,» the most significant change being «to reduce the weight of value - added data on teacher evaluations during the transition [emphasis added] to a new test for Tennessee students.»
Amendments to the bill would seek to further distance teacher evaluations from student growth and assessment data, reducing the weight of those measures from 50 percent down to 25 percent in year - end evaluations.