Hub union is urged to accept use of MCAS scores in teacher rating
School leader lauds decision of state association
 | PUSHES FOR CHANGE Carol Johnson, the head of the Boston school system, told the union the current evaluation system is inadequate. |
The Boston Teachers Union should join other educators throughout Massachusetts and endorse plans to use student test scores to help determine teacher effectiveness, Superintendent Carol Johnson told union leaders yesterday.
In a letter to the Boston union, Johnson praised the decision by the Massachusetts Teachers Association to tackle one of the most divisive issues in today’s education-reform debate. The suggestion by the state’s largest union to include MCAS scores in teacher evaluations validates what the School Department said during contract negotiations that began last spring, she said.
“It is past time to implement a complete and fair evaluation process that uses this information to affirm the complex work that our dedicated teachers undertake every day in thousands of classrooms,’’ Johnson wrote. “The current evaluation
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