Sentences with phrase «use of test scores in evaluations»

Putting a moratorium on the use of test scores in evaluations.

The hold on the use of test scores in evaluations was just one of 21 recommendations that Cuomo's Common Core task force — charged in September with reviewing the learning standards and testing in the state — made in its report this month.

Concerns over the use of test scores in evaluations have fueled more than a dozen lawsuits targeting the new evaluation systems.

And contrary to RTTT guidelines, the state system is weak on the use of test scores in evaluations.

The state Education Department and Board of Regents also wants to bring back the use of test scores in evaluations.

The strike's key issues included the use of test scores in evaluations — state law specified they had to be included; the questions were how and how much — and the implementation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's longer school day proposal without a proportionate pay raise.

Two people involved in making education policy said last month that the governor was pushing behind the scenes to eliminate the use of test scores in evaluations.

Two members of the Board of Regents, the body that sets state education policy, said they had also heard that Mr. Cuomo was urging a moratorium on the use of test scores in evaluations.

Since teacher unions have vociferously opposed the use of test scores in evaluations, saying they are too unreliable for decisions on hiring and firing, the bill would probably weaken the movement to do so.