HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston ISD leaders will decide how the district should grade its teachers at a school board meeting on Thursday night. The district appears to be backtracking. According to ...

Houston ISD's proposed evaluation system is largely in line with current research and practices, according to some experts, who raised some concerns about frequent classroom spot observations and ...

Houston ISD plans to use the state-approved teacher appraisal system to evaluate teachers this year after a judge blocked the initial system from going into effect. The appointed HISD Board of ...

Your Nov. 11 editorial regarding the inflated grades given to many local teachers who are obviously failing was excellent. When you take away the objectivity of the teacher evaluation process and make ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new teacher evaluation system will lessen the burden on teachers who score well the first time, but some teacher federations see problems with the rubric. The Louisiana ...

Under the pilot system, 30 percent of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on statewide tests and whether students showed sufficient progress on those exams, as well as other measures. An additional ...

More than 1,000 who teachers scored “highly effective” on last year’s performance evaluations say they were supposed to ...