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A bill to change the way teachers and administrators are evaluated in the state won final legislative approval in the state Senate.
The legislation would require student progress make up a smaller portion of a teacher’s evaluation with in-classroom observation rounding out the evaluation model.
Currently, student progress makes up 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation. It will account for about 25 percent of the evaluation over the next three years before jumping to 40 percent beginning in the 2018-2019 school year.
That progress would be measured in a fifty-fifty split between state and local assessments.
State Senator Phil Pavlov, a bill sponsor, says they listened to teachers and administrators and determined that local control was going to be key.
Critics of the measure say it falls short of recommendations made by an education work group.
The measure now goes to the governor for his signature.
