"We've said all along that students should not be penalized for the UFT's failure to negotiate, and our goal has been and continues to be a fair and effectiveevaluationsystem, " Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said Thursday.
Starting in 2009, the Gates Foundation supported a project known as the Measure of Effective Teaching, or MET, which worked with 3, 000 teachers to come up an evaluation and feedback system that helped teachers improve.