From our friends at the Baltimore Sun.
Reporter Liz Bowie
liz.bowie@baltsun.com.
For the complete story go here.
Maryland can put off using test scores to evaluate teachers through the next school year under a waiver to federal law.
The U.S. Department of Education granted Maryland a one-year
extension that will allow it to put off using annual test scores, given
in grades three through eight, as part of a teacher's evaluation. The
extension was expected, and Maryland legislators had already passed a
law prohibiting the use of test scores until the 2016-2017 school year.
and:
"This is only a one-year agreement to live through the on-boarding of
the new assessment," said Maryland State School Superintendent Lillian
Lowery.
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