No longer every teacher, every year: Union-backed bill would change Colorado teacher evaluation law

Chalkbeat: Most Colorado educators would no longer receive a full, formal review every year, and student academic growth would carry less weight in those evaluations under changes being pushed by Colorado’s teachers union.

A bill sponsored by state Sen. Tammy Story, an Evergreen Democrat, that will be introduced later this month would allow educators with three straight years of positive evaluations to undergo a full review only every third year — as was the case before Colorado passed a landmark teacher effectiveness law in 2010. Districts that want to keep the current system could do so.

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