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LI schools prepare for teacher eval system

In this file photo, fifth grader Courtney Castleberry,

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | In this file photo, fifth grader Courtney Castleberry, 10, reads to the class with assistance from teacher Steven Ferretti at the Nassau Boces School in Bellmore. August 8, 2011

Long Island's public schools are struggling to prepare for potentially the most sweeping national and state reforms in decades -- especially a job-evaluation system that for the first time will rate teachers based in part on their students' test performance.

New York, like several other states, is under intense pressure to have an evaluation system in place as quickly as possible. New York's...

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