Sentences with phrase «to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores»

Duncan also defended his administration's emphasis on tying teacher evaluations to student test scores in part through No Child Left Behind waivers and Race to the Top grants.

But the law expired in 2007 without congressional reauthorization, and the Obama administration has encouraged states to apply for waivers that allow them to avoid AYP penalties and the 2014 goal in exchange for adopting policies favored by the Obama Department of Education, such as tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

The tensions came to a head last month in Chicago, when union members went on strike, in part over tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

The other state to win in the first round, Delaware, which also ties teacher evaluations to student test scores, is receiving about $ 100 million.

TCTA has consistently opposed attempts to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores based on the weight of research showing that using student test performance to evaluate teacher performance is invalid, unreliable and unfair.

The broad legislation — which also raises the state's dropout age from 16 to 18 and ties teacher evaluation to student test scores — will be signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

«It ties teacher evaluation to student test scores.

Many saw the race as a referendum on DPS's reform strategies, including closing and replacing failing schools, encouraging charter and innovation schools and tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Sanger Unified is about to attempt one of the nation's most controversial education reforms, one that could threaten the cooperative culture upon which the district prides itself Starting this year, it will tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.

«If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme,» Barnum writes, «in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.»

Federal demands to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores have been at the center of ongoing negotiations over Texas» request for a reprieve from the No Child Left Behind Act.

This was because early versions of SB 1403 contained provisions that would have eliminated the minimum salary schedule, required annual appraisal of all teachers, and required that the commissioner adopt an evaluation framework that set the stage for a tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Some states, like Illinois, passed more moderate bipartisan bills that tied teacher evaluations to student test scores.

If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme, in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems, and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Since taking the post in April 2011, he pushed through a new policy that ties teacher evaluations to student test scores and weakened the influence of seniority in determining layoffs.