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January 25, 2012
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 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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2007 Connecticut Graduation Rates Analysis

June, 2010
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ConnCAN's fourth annual comparison of official 2007 high school graduation rates calculated by the Connecticut State Department of Education and independent rates calculated by Education Week’s Diplomas Count found gaps of up to 44.7 percent between the two.

The most accurate way to determine graduation rates is to track students on an individual level over a four-year period using a longitudinal database system to assess how many students actually receive a standard high school diploma. The Connecticut State Department of Education previously graduation rates on an older, less accurate methodology that relies on students to declare that they are dropping out and on districts to fully report these dropouts. However, the Department has announced a new tracking system announced by not yet fully implemented uses the same criteria as 49 other states and will follow individual students, even when they transfer schools.

The analysis here reflects the discrepancies caused by the old system of reporting and highlights the need for a more accurate measure of graduation rates. This new system the Connecticut State Department of Education agreed to adopt will eliminate many of the inaccuracies and overstatements that existed in previous reports, bringing it into much closer alignment with Education Week’s graduation rate estimates. The improved analysis will be reflected in the count for the Class of 2009 and subsequent years.

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