Mr. Silver's comments come as momentum appears to build for shielding teacher evaluations from public scrutiny.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a steadfast advocate for publicizing the results of teacher evaluations.
They are free to set their own guidelines for curriculum, teacher evaluations and lengths of school days.
The main sticking points now are teacher evaluations, compensation and the rehiring of teachers who have been laid off.
At issue were the length of the school day, tying teacher evaluations to student academic performance, and potential job cuts.
Trepidation is widespread, from Colorado to Illinois to New York, which also passed a law tying teacher evaluations to student progress.
The main focus of StudentsFirst in New York has been expanding school choice via charters and reforming teacher evaluations and tenure.
To be eligible, states also had to adopt "college- and career-ready" achievement standards and must link teacher evaluations to student achievement.
The governor, a Democrat, had set a January deadline for districts to comply with a 2010 law requiring the new teacher evaluations.
Mr. Weiner pivoted to make a larger point about fighting Albany on many fronts, including teacher evaluations, charter schools and even liquor licenses.
In Florida, a state that has one of the strongest open-records laws, teacher evaluations can be made public after one full school year.
But union leaders worry that in New York, where teacher evaluations are based in part on student test results, teachers will be blamed for low scores.
Tennessee rolled out a system this year that ties most teacher evaluations, even those in subjects like music and gym, to schoolwide math and reading scores.
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.
According to Boyle, the speakers will discuss topics ranging from charter schools to teacher evaluations, as well as a range of other education-related issues of concern to DFER members.
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"It seems pretty clear that the intent here is probably a performance pay system, " said Sandi Jacobs, a vice president with National Council on Teacher Quality, which advocates for tougher teacher evaluations.
Both Tennessee and Louisiana changed their charter school laws to meet Race to the Top criteria, and California dropped from its books a law that made it illegal to tie teacher evaluations to student performance.
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The move by the state's Board of Education would put Connecticut among an increasing number of states, including New York, linking at least some part of teacher evaluations to how well their students score on standardized tests.
In the past three years, more than 25 states have passed laws to link scores to teacher evaluations, because officials think it is a more effective way to gauge performance than traditional reliance on observations by school principals.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said last month that if Congress didn't overhaul No Child Left Behind soon he would waive certain requirements in exchange for states adopting changes he supports, such as linking teacher evaluations to student achievement and expanding charter schools.
Why not, for example, stipulate that future grants will only be made in states that permit student results to be linked to teacher evaluations--now barred by New York and California, among others--and that give kids the right to exit dreadful schools for better ones?
The Eagle County evaluations are used to give a teacher not only a score but also specific feedback on areas to improve and ways to build on their strengths.
He cited a disagreement with the union over arbitration rules for teachers and his concern that agreements across the state would expire after one year, which he said rendered them essentially toothless because it takes at least two years of bad evaluations before districts can quickly fire a tenured teacher.
Teachers unions have been pushing to keep the evaluations private, an effort that accelerated after New York City released the results of a pilot teacher-rating system.
The state education commissioner threatened Friday to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid unless New York City showed it was prepared to put a new teacher-evaluation system in place, ratcheting up pressure on the city a day after a deal on new evaluations fell apart.
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