More Money at Risk on Teacher Evaluations

Al Baker:

A day after New York City's failure to create a new teacher evaluation system cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid, an exasperated state education official on Friday threatened to withhold more than $1 billion more from the city, including its share of federal Race to the Top grants.

John B. King Jr., the state education commissioner, said Obama administration officials had expressed such concern over the breakdown in the state's largest school system that the state's entire $700 million Race to the Top grant was also in danger.

Plans for evaluating teachers had to be in place by midnight Thursday for nearly 700 school districts in New York. When many of them were lagging behind a year ago, Arne Duncan, the federal education secretary, warned that the state could be a "national leader" or lose money from sliding back on commitments for reform. The city was one of only four districts to fail to submit a plan that is envisioned as an informed way to identify superior teachers and rid schools of ineffective ones.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 19, 2013 7:43 AM
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