Sentences with phrase «teacher evaluation reforms last»

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Still, state lawmakers in both chambers are supporting changes to the education measures approved in the budget last month, including reforming the contentious teacher evaluation criteria and the regulation - making process.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

This month a last - minute filibuster shelved several of Ms Martinez's education reforms, including a new teacher - evaluation system.

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.

Then there are the efforts of ConnCAN, the state's leading reform outfit, to revive a proposed overhaul of the state's teacher evaluation system; the law had failed to gain passage last year.

This, along with the related overhaul of teacher performance and preparation program evaluation, remains the last frontier of reform.

Within the last two years, more than 20 states have adopted legislation to revise their teacher evaluation systems, and school districts in every state have implemented evaluation reforms.

The teacher evaluation process is the keystone of the TEACHNJ teacher tenure reform law signed by Gov. Chris Christie last year.

Note the steep drop - off from the last progressive reform (increase teacher pay) to the top conservative reform (test scores for teacher evaluations).

Finally, Race to the Top, last year's federal competition for $ 3.4 billion in grants to support education reform, emphasized improving the training and evaluation of principals as much as it did the training and evaluation of teachers.

He followed up with what his supporters would say has been a successful record of accomplishments on the education front, including last year's passage of a tenure - reform law that for the first time directly tied teachers» tenure to their annual evaluations.

That is why an ongoing teacher evaluation and due process, are crucial to lasting reform.

Last January, facing a tough re-election campaign, Governor Dannel Malloy and his pro-corporate education reform industry allies threw teachers a bone by postponing — for one year — the requirement that towns use the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test results as part of the state's mandatory teacher evaluation program.