According to a state evaluation, he was capable of handling his medications, and, besides, he lived with his mother, who could help.
The legislation also permanently ties the implementation of a state-approved evaluation system with annual education aid increases.
The governor had set a January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring an evaluation system for all teachers.
She supported a state law that shielded teachers' evaluation from widespread public view.
First adopted into state law in 2010, the evaluation system was hailed as a breakthrough for advocates who argue that teachers should be judged by how much their students learn in the classroom.
The city wanted to incorporate merit pay into its evaluation plan submitted to the state, but the UFT wouldn't agree.
Many of the evaluation agreements adopted by the state's nearly 700 school districts were negotiated as one-year plans but will now remain in effect until they're renewed or revised.
The provision, included in the new budget legislation, will also make annual state education aid increases contingent on having an evaluation system.
Add to this landscape powerful education reform initiatives such as overhauled teacher evaluation systems, new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and an increased focus on social and emotional learning.
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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.
Several recent customer surveys and evaluation reports prepared by New York State electric utilities have shown that customers prefer to participate in DSM programs using onsite generation rather than load-shifting or curtailment.
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He was transferred to another state facility for two weeks, given a psychiatric evaluation and then sent back to the Dona Ana County Detention Center, where he was again placed in solitary confinement.
The schools lost that increase from last year because the United Federation of Teachers union and Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to agree to a teacher evaluation system by a deadline set in state law.
The district's new teacher evaluation system uses results from the MAP and state achievement exams to assign teacher ratings.
With unions on the defensive in state legislatures on pension and medical benefits, evaluation systems and collective bargaining itself some teachers may be concerned that unions aren't fighting hard enough for their interests.
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As evidence, union officials provided a state form filled out by DOE officials that said the evaluation system would be in effect for two years, ending with the 2013-14 school year.
Mr. Mulgrew had said there wasn't any more time to get a deal on paper, but New York state Education Commissioner John King, who must ultimately approve any evaluation system, said "even at this late hour" there was still time.
The bigger risk, the governor said, is the potential loss of Race to the Top money if the state doesn't live up to its promise of implementing a new evaluation system.
The memo sent Monday was in response to a letter from the state last month after New York City was one of few districts around the state that failed to meet a deadline to come up with a teacher evaluation system.
Like districts throughout New York state, the city has been negotiating with its teachers' union over a new evaluation system that makes it easier to fire teachers.
The United Federation of Teachers also asked a state labor board to intervene in a standoff with the city over a teacher-evaluation system at most of those schools, though the city said the board had no right to weigh in on the matter.
State law pushed by Cuomo to protect federal Race to the Top funding required all of New York's nearly 700 school districts to have an approved evaluation system in place by Jan. 17 in order to receive a state aid increase in the current school year.
New York City has forfeited hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars because union and city officials haven't agreed on a new evaluation system that would judge teachers, in part, on student test scores.
State and city officials said they looked to New Haven's school system, which overhauled its evaluation system two years ago.
Last month, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback unveiled a teacher-evaluation overhaul that would give parents access to teacher evaluations, but the proposal has faced resistance in the state legislature.
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