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State teachers union issues its own roadmap to new evaluations | GothamSchools

State teachers union issues its own roadmap to new evaluations | GothamSchools:

State teachers union issues its own roadmap to new evaluations

The cover of NYSUT's evaluation handbook

This school year, New York State school districts and their teachers unions are spending a lot of time hammering out local agreements about adopting the state’s new mandated teacher evaluation system, required by June. While 40 percent of that system is predetermined by student test scores, myriad unanswered questions surround the remaining “subjective” 60 percent: