New proposal to evaluate teachers includes student test scores
A coalition of Los Angeles teachers, parents and community members Thursday unveiled a proposal to use student test scores as one measure to evaluate teachers -- a controversial element that many teacher unions have fought.
The proposal was aimed at breaking what coalition members called a troubling stalemate over a new teacher evaluation system between the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles. Efforts to improve ways to assess teachers have been stalled in part over disagreement on using data that measure the growth in student academic performance, as measured by standardized test scores.
But teachers, who made up a third of the 15 "Our Schools, One Voice" coalition members, said they took great