Education World – Nicole Gorman
“With the official announcement that 20% of students in the state of New York opted out from standardized exams this testing season, many are wondering what that means for teacher evaluations that are supposed to be partly based on the scores. The result of over 220,000 students refraining from taking the exams is a bitter debate about what this means for both teacher evaluations and Title IV funding in districts that saw the biggest opt-out numbers. “[U]nions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used,” said Politico New York.”(more)