Sentences with phrase «tying teacher performance reviews»

The state's education commissioner said no new laws are needed to reverse a proposal in this year's state budget tying teacher performance reviews more closely to standardized tests.

The state's education commissioner says no new laws are needed to reverse a proposal in this year's state budget tying teacher performance reviews more closely to standardized tests.

Not exact matches

The rules for rating teachers are set by the state, but elements of the implementation must be negotiated with the teachers union — which has resisted efforts to tie student performance to teacher reviews.

Performance - based pay would be tied to an «effective evaluation system that includes peer review so that superior teachers can be rewarded, average ones encouraged, and poor ones either improved or terminated.»

In the fall of 2012, Dr. Andres Alonso had much to celebrate about in his five - year tenure as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, including the approval and implementation of an innovative teachers» contract with a jointly - governed four - tier career pathway that tied teacher pay and promotion to performance and peer review.

Besides a reduction in local testing used to rate teacher performance, the new plan also calls for the elimination of standardized tests for grades K through second that are tied to teacher evaluations, caps the instructional time that can be used for local assessments used to inform teacher evaluations at 1 percent, and creates an «expedited review process» for teachers to use.

NEW YORK — Since the Republican takeover of state legislatures around the country, states have been passing loudly - trumpeted laws that revamp teacher evaluations and tenure, tying performance reviews to standardized test scores.