Student Test Scores May Play a Smaller Role in Future PA Teacher Evaluations
Pennsylvania lawmakers may have finally realized that treating teachers like crap isn’t a good way to improve public schools.
Across the country it’s getting harder to fill teaching positions with qualified educators. And that’s because of the way we treat the people who volunteer to educate the next generation.
You can’t raise expectations while taking away resources, union protections, and fair ways to evaluate their work.
And to his credit, state Sen. Ryan Aument seems to have finally seen the light.
In 2012, the Republican from Lancaster County was one of the leading proponents of the Commonwealth’s new teacher evaluation system which drastically increased the amount student test scores are used to assess educators.
But now Aument and other Republicans are proposing new legislation to cut back on these same measures.
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