Teachers union agrees to reopen talks on evaluations
By Phil Willon and Jason Song/Los Angeles Times
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said Saturday that he has accepted city school district officials' proposal to reopen negotiations over teacher evaluations but stopped short of saying whether a method tying teacher reviews to their students' test scores would be on the table. Los Angeles Unified School District leaders on Friday requested that the union consider making the method, known as value-added analysis, count for part of teachers' evaluations — a move that would transform how instructors are assessed in the nation's second-largest school district. (more...)