[cs_edworkers] There's a deal
- From: Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pathways-teach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, UFTerstoStoptheWar <UFTerstoStoptheWar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:59:13 -0400
From the N Y Times this morning: In Cuomo's budget deal, teacher tenure
eligibility is extended to 4 years; there will be "new parameters" for
teacher evals, to be worked out by State Edu Department; there will be
state take-overs of struggling schools. There are no details -- more later.
From the Times:
"The governor had dangled a $1.1 billion increase in education aid in
exchange for the Legislature agreeing to pass a series of reforms,
including tying teacher evaluations more closely to students’ state test
scores, making it more difficult for teachers to receive tenure and
allowing the state to take over low performing schools.
Teachers’ unions energetically opposed the governor’s proposals
School administrators and parents objected to the proposal on teacher
evaluations, saying that it would increase the focus on testing. Lawmakers
criticized his effort to tie school funding with the approval of policy
changes. In the end, the budget will include an even larger increase in
education aid – about $1.6 billion, according to Assembly Democrats.
Cuomo administration officials said the budget would establish parameters
for teacher evaluations that would result in a more rigorous evaluation
system; the changes would be left to the State Education Department to work
out.
The budget agreement would lengthen the time before teachers are eligible
for tenure to four years, from the current three; Mr. Cuomo had proposed a
five year wait.
A compromise was also struck on school takeovers: Chronically low
performing schools will be given one, or in some cases, two years to
improve; if they do not, local districts will have to appoint new
management."
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