HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston ISD leaders will decide how the district should grade its teachers at a school board meeting on Thursday night. The district appears to be backtracking. According to ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

Houston ISD plans to use the state-approved teacher appraisal system to evaluate teachers this year after a judge blocked the initial system from going into effect. The appointed HISD Board of ...

Houston ISD is collecting feedback on a new teacher evaluation system it aims to launch next academic year. Eighteen campuses, called "Trailblazers" by the district, are testing the system, and ...

How can a teacher evaluation system that rates 95 percent of teachers effective or highly effective exist in the same universe with student test scores that show four in 10 students aren’t proficient ...

Your Nov. 11 editorial regarding the inflated grades given to many local teachers who are obviously failing was excellent. When you take away the objectivity of the teacher evaluation process and make ...

Louisiana wants to give high-performing teachers more freedom and struggling teachers more support. Under a new teacher-evaluation system that schools have the option of piloting this year, teachers ...

Miami-Dade County school officials are poised to jettison their teacher-evaluation system. The 5-year-old system is tied to a contract that the Florida district’s former inspector general criticized ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - The New York state Education Department imposed an evaluation system on New York City teachers Saturday after the city and the teachers' union failed to agree on a way to ...

The state's jump on the federal government put it in a prime position to win money from the Race to the Top fund, Obama's signature education initiative, and in 2010 the president announced that Rhode ...

New York State United Teachers union is openly voicing enormous displeasure with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the recently approved New York state budget. “Gov. Andrew Cuomo is so enamored with hedge fund ...