Jun 24, 2016 ... Public education advocates are calling on the Democrats to rethink their views ...  charter schools and the evaluation of teachers by student test scores — and they  .... *Encourage states to develop multiple measure approaches to ... *Reject the  use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations.
''Both Democrats and Republicans are advocating for the use of student test  scores to measure teacher effectiveness.'' — PolitiFact Florida on Friday, April  2nd, ...
Apr 28, 2015 ... Both Senate Bill 499 and its counterpart, Assembly Bill 575, will now face ... of  teacher performance and what tests to use to measure student ... The Stull Act  requires that teachers be evaluated on instructional .... students found that only  seven districts actually used test score ... Republican bills defeated.
Sep 3, 2015 ... This overview covers teacher evaluation and includes information on ... Teacher  evaluations matter a lot—both to teachers and to those holding them accountable . But how can schools measure the performance of all teachers fairly? .... The  pressure to use students' standardized-test scores has also ...
Jun 5, 2016 ... As a result, the legacy of the Obama Administration on both education ....  Democrats and Republicans—about the future of federal education ... Advocates  argued that high, uniform academic standards would .... to the use of Common  Core aligned tests to evaluate teachers or rate schools ( Sawchuk 2015 ).
''Both Democrats and Republicans are advocating for the use of student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness.''