Rating teachers on MCAS results
Sweeping change pushed by state education leader
Mitchell Chester, shown during a visit to the Eliot School in the North End, said the goal is to fix a long-broken evaluation system that too often fails to provide constructive feedback. (Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe/File 2010)The state’s education commissioner proposed a set of regulations yesterday that would radically overhaul the way teachers and administrators are evaluated, making student MCAS results central to judging their performance.
The proposed regulations would reward teachers and administrators whose students show more than a year’s worth of growth in proficiency under the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and on other exams, while educators whose students underperform would be placed on one-year “improvement plans.’’ Under the proposal, teachers coul