Wisconsin Teacher Evaluation System Commentary

Erin Richards:

In 2009 when the federal government announced the requirements for states to compete for billions of dollars of school reform grants, Wisconsin's name came up -- but not in the context state leaders wanted.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan called a Wisconsin law on the books at the time "simply ridiculous" because it prohibited using student test scores as a factor in evaluating teacher performance. Wisconsin never won a grant through the $4.35 billion Race to the Top competition.

Nearly five years later, the state is on the brink of rolling out an evaluation system for educators in all K-12 public school districts, but the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction still hasn't determined how to tie student outcomes into those ratings.

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 29, 2013 9:59 AM
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