Cuomo Vowed

To Break the Monopoly

of Public Education.
With His New Teacher Evaluation Proposals, He Just Might.
Governor Cuomo's proposed changes to teacher evaluations raise the stakes even higher on testing. State tests would become 50% of
a teachers evaluation - even for teachers in non-tested grades - and would use the same value-added measures which have been
shown to have large margins of error. At the same time, principal evaluations would be lowered to just 15% of a teachers evaluation,
with the majority of weight falling into the hands of observers separate from and outside the school community.
Educators want to be held accountable. There are common sense measures that have been tested and proven, and can help do just
this. But evaluations that place the emphasis on testing and widely scientifically disputed value-added measures are not the way.
Taking away the voice from the school administrators - and community itself - is not the answer.

WHAT WAS
The What
Observation
Component

The Weight

The Who

The Then

The Consequences

100% of teacher
evaluation

Conducted by school administrators

A teacher is rated:

Testing Component

0% of teacher evaluation

An administrator could file for

teacher removal process
whether teacher is rated
Satisfactory or
Unsatisfactory.

Satisfactory
or
Unsatisfactory

A teacher rated Unsatisfactory

has salary increases frozen.

WHAT IS
The What
Observation
Component

The Weight

The Who

The Then

The Consequences

60% of teacher evaluation

Conducted by school administrators

Add it up:

A teacher who is rated

"Ineffective" two years in row
can be fired.

Testing Component

20% based on local

assessments

Agreed to by districts and locales;

oftentimes using authentic
assessments like one-on-one
student reading assessments

20% based on state tests

Student growth scores using valueth

th
added measures for 4 & 5 grade
and middle school teachers; growth
or goal setting for others.

100-91: Highly Effective

90-75: Effective
74-65: Developing
0-64: Ineffective

A teacher who is rated

"Developing" or Ineffective
must be placed on a Teacher
Improvement Plan.
A teacher rated Ineffective
has salary increases frozen.

WHAT WILL BE
The What
Observation Component

Testing Component

**Test scores become

50% of teacher
evaluations; use flawed
value-added measures

The Weight

The Who

The Then

The Consequences

35% of teacher
evaluation

**Conducted by
"Independent Observer"

Add it up:

15% of teacher
evaluation

Conducted by
school
administrators

**A teacher who is rated

"Ineffective" in EITHER the
Observation Component or
Testing Component
CANNOT be rated above
"Developing" overall.

**50% based on
state tests

Student growth
scores
using value-added
measures

**Voice is taken
away from
administrators
and school
community

100-91: Highly
Effective
90-75: Effective
74-65: Developing
0-64: Ineffective

**Harder for
teachers to
do well
even when
they do well

**A teacher must be rated

effective or highly effective
for 5 years in a row to get
tenure.
A teacher who is rated
Ineffective must be placed on a
Teacher Improvement Plan.

This failed model of evaluation reform has already driven away good teachers in states throughout the country and prompted wide
outcry. If we do nothing, the same thing might happen in New York this April. And Governor Cuomo might just make good on his vow.