Deal reached on teacher evaluations
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and educators announced a deal Thursday on a new system for evaluating schoolteachers across the state, just 12 hours before a deadline he had set.
The new system makes only a few -- but significant -- changes from an evaluation system enacted by the Legislature in 2010. Cuomo had called that law weak.
Notably, the new system gives the state Education Department...
