The Los Angeles Times (1/20, Watanabe) reports that United Teachers Los Angeles on Saturday approved "a landmark agreement to use student test scores for the first time in evaluating Los Angeles Unified teachers," noting that the union "reported that 66% of 16,892 members who voted approved the agreement with the nation's second-largest school district. L.A. Unified now joins Chicago, New York and many other cities in using testing data as one measure of a teacher's effect on student academic progress." The Times paints the plan's limits on the use of value-added data as a victory for the union.
The Huffington Post (1/21, Mendoza) reports that the deal came "after months of negotiations," and that it entails "a controversial multifactor system to evaluate teacher performance. In a two-thirds vote, United Teachers Los Angeles members ratified an agreement with the district that calls for evaluations based on a mix of raw data from the California Standards Test, 'robust classroom observation' and school-level data based on the concept of Academic Growth over Time." Reuters (1/19, Dobuzinskis) also covers this story.
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