Tying Standardized Test Scores to Teacher Evaluation

In order to qualify for the RttT federal funds (4.35 billion dollars), Maine, like every other State, is quickly passing legislation to make us eligible. One of the bills concerns educator job evaluation.


What do you think? Is this selling our souls for money or a reasonable response to hard times?

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Education and Cultural Affairs
Public Hearings An Act To Encourage the Use of Models in the Collection and Use of Student Achievement Data
SP 704, LD 1799		Mar 4, 2010, 0100PM	Room 202 Cross Building

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SUMMARY

This bill eliminates the prohibition on the use of student assessment data in the establishment of models for evaluation of the professional performance of teachers. It also extends the models for evaluation developed by the Department of Education to principals and requires that the models include multiple measures.it within the State shall have has the option to incorporate the models developed pursuant to subsection 1 for the evaluation of the professional performance of any teacher or principal employed by that school administrative unit.

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