Teacher eval process needs more scrutiny
Photo credit: Getty Images | A file photo of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. (Sept. 10, 2011)
State teacher evaluation plans
NYC teacher evaluations
The advent of a new teacher-evaluation apparatus remains in a tangle of labor politics, state bureaucracy, lobbying by interest groups and questions of funding.
Systems for evaluation have yet to be settled. Districts are still negotiating options. Questions of who pays added expenses are ever-present. Just as fans like to broadly call new evaluation methods "reform," critics in some places...
