Schools
State: Teacher Evaluations Will Be Set By June 1
With still no deal on how teachers will be evaluated, the state will step in and decide.
With no teacher evaluation deal reached between the Bloomberg administration and the United Federation of Teachers, both sides now will have to plead their case to Education Commissioner John King, who will have the final say, The New York Post reported.
The two sides had until midnight Wednesday to reach an agreement or submit separate 20-page proposals to argue before the state. The deadline passed and the two sides still had not managed to map out a plan. Now, they have until May 29 to resolve their difference over the phone or it will fall into the hands of the state.
This atypical intervention by the state Education Department was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's idea: The city already had lost $260 million earlier this year when the two sides failed to meet their first two deadlines for an evaluation deal.
King has said that he will conduct an expedited arbitration hearing after which he'll issue a final and binding evaluation plan by June 1 if there's no agreement on May 29.
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