Among all teachers rated «minimally effective,» 27 percent
voluntarily left the district, compared to 14 percent of teachers rated «effective» and 9 percent of teachers rated «highly effective.»
IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to
voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
According to the study, the system has improved the performance of hundreds of teachers in the district and also encouraged some low - performing teachers to
voluntarily leave the district's classrooms.
Not exact matches
Some
districts do provide
voluntarily provide support, but this is voluntary and the amounts range wildly from nearly $ 80 (Hartford) to $ 9,000 (Stamford) per pupil for each seat —
leaving students» educational futures uncertain.
Voluntarily sought agreement from the school district for temporary leave or limitations on the scope of employment if the temporary leave or limitations are included in the treatment provider's recommendations; or voluntarily agreed to pursue the alternative treatment recommended by the treatment provider if the school district does not approve such temporary leave or limitations on the scope of
Voluntarily sought agreement from the school
district for temporary
leave or limitations on the scope of employment if the temporary
leave or limitations are included in the treatment provider's recommendations; or
voluntarily agreed to pursue the alternative treatment recommended by the treatment provider if the school district does not approve such temporary leave or limitations on the scope of
voluntarily agreed to pursue the alternative treatment recommended by the treatment provider if the school
district does not approve such temporary
leave or limitations on the scope of employment.
Otherwise, all of this effort to ultimately attempt to terminate five of a total 5,685 certified teachers in the
district (0.09 %) seems awfully inefficient, and costly, and quite frankly absurd given this is a «new and improved» system meant to be much better than a prior system that likely yielded a similar termination rate, not including, however, those who
left voluntarily prior.
In addition, many teachers decided that a competency - based system would not work for them, and they
left the
district voluntarily.