WHY WE CARE NOW:
Last week, New York’s Education Department released the state’s teacher evaluation reports for the 2013-2014 school year. The results were released eight months earlier than expected as a clear political ploy to bolster Cuomo’s proposal to make 50% of teacher’s ratings be based on state test scores, which he announced last week on his state address. The data shows the percentage of teachers who got one of the four rating categories (highly effective, effective, developing, ineffective) in the new evaluation system.
These ratings are based on scores received by the teacher or principal in each of the three subcomponents (State Growth or Other Comparable Measures, Locally-Selected Measures, and Other Measures of Educator Effectiveness*). The results show more than 95% of teachers in the state are rated effective or highly effective, 4% are rated as developing; 1% percent as ineffective. Cuomo’s proposal to make these evaluations 50% based on student test scores
