School Information System: Lawmakers abandon California teacher evaluation bill

September 5, 2012

Lawmakers abandon California teacher evaluation bill

State lawmakers failed to revive a controversial measure that would rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations, but supporters vowed to bring it up again in the next legislative session.

The long-dormant bill, AB 5, was resurrected in recent weeks by Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes (D-Sylmar), according to the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/RwfqnW). It would institute a statewide uniform teacher evaluation system featuring more performance reviews, classroom observations, training of evaluators and public input into the review process.

Education advocates slammed the bill, saying the new rules would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 5, 2012 1:49 AM
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The Chicago teachers strike seems to be created over their balking at the Obama,Duncan,Mayor insistance on unproven teacher evalution system and the fear of up to 30% job loss directed by student achievement based on standardized testing.In the 1960s ,i was a teacher union president whose school superintendent was hired to install a merit teacher evalution/merit pay system. If any of these systems had ever worked anywhere with teachers,doctors,lawyers ,whatever we could have used it as a model to achieve its wonderful objectives. The only results I have seen in 60 years is more conflict.

Posted by: william.p rowe at September 11, 2012 3:37 AM