Los Angeles Unveils Teacher
Evaluation Plan
Los Angeles Unified officials have released a detailed proposal for overhauling the district's teacher evaluation system, including the broader use of student test data and establishing incentive pay programs.
The documents, released Wednesday, represent the district's initial bargaining position with unions, which are wary of potential changes they fear may be unfair to teachers.
Under the proposal, employee attendance, classroom observations and student test scores would be among the measures used to evaluate teachers and administrators. The system would also include a self-assessment from every educator.
The proposal also would mandate that teachers work longer than two years before becoming permanent employees and that evaluations be used to guide all hiring and firing decisions.
The school board, which voted last to launch the negotiations, will consider the proposal during its meeting on Tuesday.
The district has been working on changes to performance evaluations since April 2009, and appointed a task force to study the issue and garner the support of their labor groups.
However, pressure for reform as increased over the last month, with the release of "value-added scores," a controversial system using a student's previous and current performance to rate a teacher's success.
Superinendent Ramon Cortines issued a statement in which he insisted the new proposal stems from the work of the task force.
"This task force—comprised of administrators, teachers, parents, labor and business leaders, other education professionals and community organizations—met last year to set a road map for improving the effectiveness of all our teachers and these proposals reflect that work," he said.
Union leaders have said that they are willing to discuss changing the evaluation system, but are adamantly opposed to a "value-added" system, which they call inaccurate and unfair.
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