In Race to the Top update, feds express serious concerns with Georgia’s lack of progress on teacher evaluations | Get Schooled

In Race to the Top update, feds express serious concerns with Georgia’s lack of progress on teacher evaluations | Get Schooled:

In Race to the Top update, feds express serious concerns with Georgia’s lack of progress on teacher evaluations

by Maureen Downey

Troubling news for Georgia today after the U.S. Education Department issued a progress report citing grave concerns about the state’s Race to the Top progress.
What has the U.S. DOE concerned is Georgia’s struggles with introducing and implementing a new teacher evaluation, a central piece of  the state’s $400 million Race to the Top grant.
In a report released Thursday, the US DOE said that while the other nine Race to the Top recipients were progressing satisfactorily, they were concerned with the stumbles in Georgia, the District of Columbia and Maryland
The fed’s concern was not a surprise. In July, U.S. Department of Education officials said the $33 million in