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E4E - New York Executive Director Jonathan Schleifer reacted to Governor Cuomo's teacher evaluation proposal by praising the Governor's focus but raised concerns...

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That means that no action by the Legislature on Cuomo's proposal will result in even broader disclosure of the teacher - evaluation information.

Two initiatives, a «right to repair» proposal and teacher evaluation initiative, were considered by the lawmaking body, with the «right to repair» initiative being rejected.

According to guidelines sent out by the State Education Department to school districts, July 1 is the legal date to submit the teacher evaluation plans, and the department legally has until September 1 to accept or reject the proposals.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg took aim on Wednesday at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to speed up a teacher - evaluation system, a day after the city was surprised by the governor's plan.

Cuomo's ambitious education reform proposals include raising the charter cap by 100 slots, weighing standardized tests more heavily in teacher evaluations and linking evaluations with tenure awards, among other reforms.

Valesky says the education reform proposals, which include tougher teacher evaluation rules and changes in tenure, could be handled after the budget is approved, which is supposed to happen by April 1.

These proposals have generally sought to do one or more of the following: lengthen the probation period for new teachers, strengthen the teacher evaluation process, streamline the teacher dismissal process, or «end tenure» by moving to renewable contracts.

In Tennessee, the statewide teachers» union has made plain that it's deeply troubled by several aspects of Gov. Bredesen's proposals, especially the idea of mandating that test scores be tied to teacher evaluations.

I imagine that the proposal was negotiated by the same permanent («tenured»), senior teachers who stand to receive annual $ 10 to $ 25K bonuses for serving on the straw - man evaluation panels.

I could go on to defend each of Malloy's proposals point - by - point, but I'll finish by addressing what might be the most controversial education reform proposal out there: linking teacher evaluations to standardized test results.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

The Democratic governor's proposal, which requires half of teacher evaluations to be based on student - achievement data, was approved on a 29 - 3 vote in the Senate and by 83 - 9 in the House.

The proposal by Educators 4 Excellence, whose L.A. chapter of 900 teachers was launched last November, came one day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found that the Los Angeles Unified School District had violated a state law requiring the use of such student achievement measures in its instructor evaluations.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

Even after the proposal was modified by the Connecticut General Assembly is still held out as a prime example of the corporate education reform industry's obsession with more standardized testing and inappropriate teacher evaluation programs that utilize standardized test results.

However, to the dismay of teachers, Governor Cuomo balked at a proposal by legislators to impose a two - year moratorium on the use of Common Core standardized test scores in teacher evaluations, saying, «There is a difference between remedying the system for students and parents and using this situation as yet another excuse to stop the teacher - evaluation process.»