Sentences with phrase «tougher teacher evaluation»

The role of the principal can not simply be tougher teacher evaluation standards.

The state teacher's union is currently embroiled in its own battle with the state DOE over its push to implement tougher teacher evaluation standards this fall.

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.

Cuomo on Wednesday is also expected to outline an aggressive education reform agenda that will include a push for more charter schools and additional funding for them, tougher teacher evaluation standards, and money for teacher incentives.

[Cuomo is reportedly holding back a promised 4 - percent increase in school aid in exchange for a tougher teacher evaluation system.

What makes this year different is that Cuomo is pushing for education reform measures in the budget — including a tougher teacher evaluation criteria and a receivership program for struggling (AKA «failing») schools.

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

Jeff Peneston, a 9th grade earth science teacher in Liverpool and a 2011 New York state teacher of the year, says Cuomo's call for tougher teacher evaluations is based on a false premise and bad logic.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jeff Peneston, a 9th grade earth science teacher in Liverpool and a New York state teacher of the year in 2011, says Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for tougher teacher evaluations is based on a false premise and bad logic.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has shown support for tougher teacher evaluations and raising a cap on the number of charter schools.

Among other details, the governor has proposed tougher teacher evaluations that would make it easier to fire underperforming teachers, and fewer limits on charter schools.

Some of the ideas, like tougher teacher evaluations, have crossover support, including from President Obama.

The state budget is due in two months, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a wide range of items that Democrats like and dislike, including an increase in the minimum wage, which they favor, and an expansion of charter schools, and tougher teacher evaluations, which they do not.

Cuomo also advocated for the state's quick adoption of the new higher standards, as well as new, tougher teacher evaluations.

Reformers push school choice and tougher teacher evaluations.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has shown support for tougher teacher evaluations and raising a cap on the number of charter schools.

In New Mexico, Major Changes to Nation's Toughest Teacher Evaluation System blogs.edweek.org/edweek / teacher

Despite supporting tenure, the mayor did concede that the city needs a tough teacher evaluation system because, «every profession has individuals who start down the road and just should not continue.»

Mr. Cuomo is also in conflict with teacher unions and many educators over his call for tougher teacher evaluations, with outside observers giving 35 % of a teacher's score.

CHICAGO — Chicago teachers stayed away from public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that U.S. education reform advocates see as crucial to fixing urban schools.

Not exact matches

Paul Tough discusses education politics and teacher evaluations along with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and author Wes Moore, September 2012.

A provision said tougher evaluations can't pass without agreement on specifics between teachers unions and school districts.

Parent groups want Cuomo and state lawmakers to repeal the tough teacher - evaluation law passed last spring, which bases up to about half of teachers ratings on student test results.

Cuomo has made a significant number of public comments (and past actions) that indicate he will look to bolster charter schools and implement tougher evaluations for public school teachers.

At the same time they were pursuing tougher evaluations, reformers looked to the courts to loosen the city's teacher tenure protections.

Cuomo's spending plan could boost education spending by as much as $ 1.1 billion next year, but much of that money is linked to enacting tougher standards and evaluations for teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

That suggested the standardized test score ratings were tougher than the evaluations teachers and school leaders developed.

They include stricter teacher evaluations, tougher tenure rules and expansion of charter schools.

Tisch, who talks as tough a game as anyone on education standards and teacher evaluations, somehow always manages to resolve issues in ways that the state's fundamentally corrupt teachers unions find unobjectionable.

Most public school teachers are feeling embattled these days, with public criticisms of their effectiveness and calls for tougher evaluations and promotion criteria.

He says he expects Governor Cuomo's proposals to toughen teacher evaluations and tie increased school aid to expanding charter schools will be «tough areas» of the budget to negotiate.

The governor has said he would consider removing Common Core - aligned test scores from consideration in teacher evaluations temporarily to account for the flawed rollout of the tougher curriculum standards.

He vowed to push for a new, tougher round of teacher performance evaluations and break the back of the public school «monopoly» if he's re-elected.

Cuomo has suggested $ 1.1 billion in additional education spending — but only if lawmakers agree to implement tougher tenure rules, teacher evaluations more reliant on student test performance and the authorization of more charter schools.

However, the push for tougher testing and job evaluations drew growing resistance from teacher unions and parents, who say the combination places undue pressure on students and teachers.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

It created a slower, tougher tenure process for teachers, and would base layoff and recall procedures on teacher evaluations rather than on seniority.

We need to either pause the move to the tougher tests or pause the stakes attached to the teacher evaluations.

That's why I've been tough on statewide teacher evaluation reforms.

Just 36 percent of them, according to Public Agenda, believe that their tougher scrutiny of weak teachers is leading to tenure denials and only 30 percent report that student achievement is being factored into their teacher evaluations.

He's aware, though, that he'll have a tough sell with teachers unions, which give lip service to more - stringent teacher evaluations but prefer existing pay and promotion schemes based on seniority — even though they often end up matching the least experienced teachers with the most challenging students.

NYSUT is already livid that Cuomo and the Legislature this week enacted a tougher evaluation plan tied to student testing that will make it easier to fire teachers — even those with tenure

Over the past decade, California has been a holdout from some of the big national reforms that most other states have embraced, especially clear and tough school accountability systems and test - based teacher evaluations.

As statewide teacher - evaluation laws, Common Core implementation, tougher assessments, and other reforms really begin influencing suburbia, the ed - reform debate is going to seriously evolve.

Teacher protests have accelerated in the last year because the new evaluation systems are coming online at the same time states roll out tough new exams aligned to the Common Core standards.

Making sense of the teacher effectiveness data is tough work given that different districts use different evaluation systems.

The Obama administration wants states to compete for the money by showing they're ready to take - on tough reforms — reforms that use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as well as reforms that encourage the creation of more charter schools.