Sharon Palmer, president of the state’s American Federation of Teachers, notes the evluation portion of the new education bill will be limited to a “pilot” in about 10 low-performing school districts. She said that if Gov. Dannel Malloy had reached for that in his original bill, he might not have been met with a statewide teacher uprising since announcing his plan in February. “The new system, the PEAC progress, isn’t done,” she said. “You just can’t do that many districts and do them well. So they’re going to pilot some, which makes a lot of sense because you have a brand-new system.” The summary given to reporters a few minutes ago says: “The final bill requires annual performance evaluation of principals, administrators, and teachers, based upon the consensus framework developed by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council.” Currently, there is no such framework. “Tenure will be awarded on the basis of effective practice as informed by the new system of evaluation,” the summary goes on.
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