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Post by rr on Mar 23, 2015 15:01:12 GMT -5
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Apr 1, 2015 11:48:54 GMT -5
From today's NY State Budget deal reporting in the New York Times:
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Among the education-law changes approved by the State Senate and Assembly late Tuesday night as part of a package of budget-related bills, perhaps the most ferociously fought over has been about teacher evaluations.
Last year 96 percent of teachers were rated either effective or highly effective, the two highest ratings, and Mr. Cuomo put a big red target on the current evaluation system in January when, during his State of the State address, he called it “baloney.”
In its place, he proposed tying 50 percent of a teacher’s rating to student test scores and reducing the weight of principals’ observations, which tended to be favorable to teachers.
Unions, teachers and parents took to the sidewalks, waving picket signs, to oppose the changes, which they said would increase what they already considered to be an overreliance on standardized tests.
The final bill does not include percentages for how much particular measurements will count — those details will be left to the State Education Department. But it does make it somewhat more difficult for teachers to achieve the highest rating, and it mandates low ratings in certain circumstances. Principals can still weigh in with their observations, but so must an evaluator from outside the school.
End of Report
Regards,
Chris Wendt
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