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January 25, 2012
Hartford Courant

 After about two years of wrangling, a group representing teachers, school administrators and school boards agreed Wednesday on a new way to evaluate teachers that places a strong emphasis on student achievement.

Members of the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council said the breakthrough in their discussions on the contentious issue occurred in the past few months under the leadership of Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor.

January 25, 2012
Connecticut Mirror

Years of disagreement have stalled efforts to grade teachers and dismiss those who are ineffective. That all changed Wednesday when a group of educators -- including teachers' unions, superintendent and school board groups -- agreed on how to properly evaluate teachers so those who are struggling are identified and put on a path to improve or be dismissed.

 

January 24, 2012
Associated Press

 Connecticut's policies to improve the quality of teaching in its public schools are mediocre at best, and particularly fall short in efforts to keep the best teachers and remove those who are ineffective, according to a new nationwide assessment of states' regulations. 

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Three Bridgeport schools recognized as 'success stories'

March 6, 2010
Bridgeport News
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 Three of Bridgeport public schools — Hall School, High Horizons Magnet School and Multicultural Magnet School — have been selected as 2010 ConnCAN “Success Story” schools.

ConnCan is the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, a statewide education reform advocacy organization.

 

Each year, ConnCAN recognizes schools around the state that are leading the way in raising student achievement and helping to close Connecticut’s achievement gap.

ConnCAN publishes Top Ten lists for elementary, middle and high schools around the state, choosing schools based on student performance gains; overall school improvement; and African-American, Hispanic and low-income student achievement on the Connecticut Mastery Test and Connecticut Academic Performance Test.

To qualify as a “Success Story” school, the school must make it to the top three in one of the Top Ten lists and have a combined minority/low-income population of at least 75 percent.

This year, Hall School ranked No. 1 in overall elementary school improvement, Multicultural Magnet School ranked No. 1 in African-American middle school achievement, and High Horizons Magnet School ranked No. 3 in low-income elementary school achievement.

So this year, of the more than 1,000 public schools in Connecticut, Bridgeport has three of only 16 schools in the state to achieve ConnCAN “Success Story” status.

Each school will be presented with a plaque from ConnCan to recognize its accomplishment.

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