The deal reached in Albany this week would ensure that the terms of a teacher-evaluation agreement would remain in place after it expires, much the same as contractual protections do.

WSJ: Deal May Ease Evaluation Plan

Mr. Wieser, meanwhile, has a "telephone-based link with his part-time boss in The Hague, who, to make matters worse, has his own staff and his own parliament which expects him to report to it on his euro-area activities, as well as his conduct of Dutch policy, " Mr. Ludlow writes in an evaluation of the Cyprus agreement published this week.

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He emphasized that the sides still hadn't reached an overall agreement on an evaluation system.

WSJ: Teacher Evaluation Deal Reached

That was good enough for Mr. Cuomo, who had earlier conditioned hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid on a final agreement on an evaluation system, a threshold not yet crossed.

WSJ: Teacher Evaluation Deal Reached

The agreement contained in next year's budget also gives New York City and three other districts lacking evaluation plans Hamburg, Pine Plains and Fallsburg until May 29 to adopt a system or the state will impose one.

WSJ: Deal ensures NY teacher-evaluations don't expire