There is growing demand for boards to undergo a formal evaluation process, to assess both the performance of each individual board member and how they work together as a group.

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For all the difficulty of doing a rigorous evaluation in order to improve teaching performance across the board, I suspect it is a whole lot easier to identify the worst teachers in the school.

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Fired for cause, he claims his poor performance evaluation was a pretext and that his real crime was appearing in the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York.

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It adds a pay for performance overlay that allows the agency to earn up to a 23% margin when meeting a performance criteria that includes Agency Evaluation Score, Specialist Metrics, MarCom Metrics, and Business Performance Metrics.

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The foundation and others have estimated that it could cost between 1.5% and 2% of the overall budget for teacher compensation and benefits to implement a feedback and evaluation system based on multiple measures of teaching performance.

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