In exchange for implementing a new statewide teacher and principal evaluation system, the U.S. Department of Education has granted Texas a one-year waiver from No Child Left Behind benchmarks deemed unreachable by the Texas Education Agency. Sixty-eight charter schools and districts will pilot the controversial new evaluation method, which conforms to a federal mandate requiring districts to base at least 20 percent of teacher and principal scores on student performance measures. (Houston Chronicle)
John Reynolds was the newsletters editor for the Tribune from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a reporter for Quorum Report, a non-partisan online political newsletter focusing on the ins and outs under... More by John Reynolds
