School teacher evaluations are knotty problem

Jamie Munks:

It's much tougher to implement the law than it is to write it -- that's the lesson educators are learning this summer as they work to implement a complicated new educator evaluation system.

Some area school leaders question how fair the system can be and say they don't believe it's possible to get everything done on time with the state's strict timeline.

"The timetable is practically impossible," Watertown City School District Superintendent Terry N. Fralick said. "By and large, we feel the timetable cannot be met. But we will do our best to work on it and show good faith."

District officials will work with the Watertown Education Association and the Watertown Association of Supervisors and Administrators, the unions that cover teachers and principals, respectively. School leaders in other north country districts and across the state will be doing the same thing.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 10, 2011 1:12 AM
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