Use teacher evaluations to
make teacher tenure decisions, with teachers granted tenure after receiving two Highly Effective or three Effective ratings within a five - year period.
We would hope, for example, that the measures used to
make teacher tenure decisions are good predictors of how teachers will perform in the years after they receive tenure.
Now, their main tasks revolve around
making teacher tenure decisions, conducting «Quality Reviews» of school's internal organizational structures, attending public hearings about schools in their districts, and putting out fires when they arise.
A good example is
the teacher tenure decision.
In a speech to New York's state legislature last November, Mayor Bloomberg praised «data - driven systems» while arguing that student test scores should be linked to
teacher tenure decisions.
In New York City, value - added data has been used for the last two years by principals only to make
teacher tenure decisions.