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Putting Education Reform To The Test

Feedback Loop: Read Florida’s Teacher Evaluation Formula

Charles Trainor Jr. / Miami Herald

Advanced calculus teacher, Orlando Sarduy writes out the mathematical equation that will help grade teachers and determine how much they get paid. The formula considers 10 factors that influence how well a student does in school, but student poverty is not one of those factors.

A listener heard our recent story about Florida’s teacher evaluation formula, and asked us to post it on the StateImpact Florida Facebook page.

“You’ve made so much of its complexity,” Chris Harris wrote. “It seems the best way to demonstrate that is to publish it in its entirety.”

We agree, so here it is with all of its assumptions, explanations and reasoning, after the jump:

Comments

  • Neuronsrule12

    Merit pay doesn’t and shouldn’t indicate how much a teacher should get paid.  We all know politics plays a huge role.  There are favoritism in schools…even from the top.  A lot of usteachers work hard because it is our calling in life and want to help students become the best learners possible.  Regardless of race, social economic status or gender.  We still need to have strong teachers unions.  I have worked in a Charter School  and I am mortified of how teachers are treated.  Money goes into the pockets of the owners, not the students or the teachers.  We don’t have a gymnasium, we don’t have supplies to teach with.  Most books are donations fromt he public schools.  Where is the money going? 

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