By Dave Chase, Managing Editor
The Maryland House Ways and Means Committee heard testimony this afternoon on the Governor’s Education bill, HB 1263 (aka SB 899). The bill would, among other things, lengthen the probationary period for teachers to obtain tenure from two years to three years, required annual evaluation of nontenured teachers and tie the evaluation of those teachers to student growth data
By Dave Chase, Managing Editor
The State of Maryland was one of 10 States who did not submit an application to the Federal Department of Education for a ‘Race to the Top’ grant last week. The Race to the Top is an effort by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to encourage states to reform their education a laws to allow more Charter schools and [...]
