Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to
slower progress
toward implementing additional evaluation policies, particularly the use of student
growth measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting of value - added scores or other student
growth measures in teacher evaluation
ratings.
We expect multifamily starts to continue to increase but at a
slower pace than the 200 + percent
growth rate in the fourth quarter as starts move steadily
toward the annual pace of 350 thousand that we consider sustainable.