Politics & Government

State: Teacher Evaluations Will be Set by June 1

By C. Zawadi Morris

With no teacher evaluation deal reached between the Bloomberg administration and the United Federation of Teachers, both sides now will have to plead their case to Education Commissioner John King, who will have the final say, reported The New York Post.   

The two sides had until midnight Wednesday to reach an agreement or submit separate 20-page proposals to argue before the state. Wednesday midnight came and went, and the two sides still not manage to map out a plan. Now they have until May 29 to resolve their difference over the phone, or it will fall into the hands of the state.  

The unusual intervention by the state Education Department was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's idea: The city already had lost $260 million earlier this year when the two sides failed to meet their first two deadlines for an evaluation deal.  

Now with state's influence looming, King said that after May 29 and if there’s no agreement, he will conduct an expedited arbitration hearing after which he'll issue a final and binding evaluation plan by June 1.


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