Sentences with phrase «teacher evaluation measures»

Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure.

But much of that added spending is tied to backing Cuomo's education policy changes, including more stringent teacher evaluation measures and strengthening the state's charter schools.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

Not surprisingly, a composite teacher evaluation measure that mixes classroom observations and student survey results with test score gains is generally no better and sometimes much worse at predicting out of sample test score gains.

The teacher evaluation measure is one of the final outstanding items left before the legislative session wraps Thursday and is certainly the most high profile.

In fact, Andrew Cuomo helped move the student score needle up, writing in a letter to the Regents just before their May vote, «This change would ensure that greater balance is struck between using objective teacher evaluation measures... and subjective teacher evaluation measures.»

Members, whom include legislators and education leaders across the state, must factor in teacher evaluation measures and student performance outcomes.