New York City plans to release ratings of teachers based on test scores
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Controversial D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee will announce her resignation on Wednesday, nearly four years after she was brought in by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty to improve the city's languishing public education system.
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A battle that erupted in Los Angeles this summer over the public release of teacher ratings is flaring in New York this week and could become prominent in thedebate over school reform efforts nationwide.
New York City education officials announced Wednesday that they had decided to provide news organizations ratings on teachers that are derived from calculations on how much year-to-year progress their students make on standardized tests.
Natalie Ravitz, a city education spokeswoman, said the information, including names of about 12,000 teachers, would be given as early as Friday to outlets that requested it formally under public records law.
"We think the public has a right to the information,"
