{"id":20828,"date":"2013-12-03T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20828"},"modified":"2013-12-03T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T21:21:30","slug":"more-florida-teachers-earn-top-ratings-in-2012-2013-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/12\/03\/more-florida-teachers-earn-top-ratings-in-2012-2013-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"More Florida Teachers Earn Top Ratings In 2012-2013 School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18870\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18870\" alt=\"Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John O&#39;Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nearly 98 percent of Florida teachers earned a top rating, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/profdev\/pdf\/EduEvalRatings.pdf\">according to initial statewide teacher evaluation data released Tuesday, <\/a>a slight increase over last year&#8217;s results.<\/p>\n<p>About one-third of teachers earned the top rating of &#8220;highly effective,&#8221; up from 23 percent of teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/05\/2011-2012-florida-school-teacher-evaluation-data-by-school\/\">last year<\/a>. About 66 percent were rated &#8220;effective,&#8221; the largest category this year.<\/p>\n<p>And the percentage of teachers earning the lowest ratings declined. This year, 1.4 percent of teachers were rated &#8220;needs improvement.&#8221; Last year 2.1 percent of teachers earned a &#8220;needs improvement rating.<\/p>\n<p>Just two of every 1,000 teachers were rated &#8220;unsatisfactory,&#8221; about the same rate as last year.<\/p>\n<p>About 14 percent of teachers have yet to be rated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the second year Florida has published statewide teacher evaluation data. The evaluations are <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/senate-bill-736\/\">required by a 2011 law<\/a>. State law requires school districts to create evaluation systems based mostly on student improvement on state standardized tests. School districts could require more training and supervision for poorly-rated teachers and less supervision for highly-rated teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, all teachers across the state <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/teacher-evaluations\/\">will be paid based on their evaluations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s largest teachers union has <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/15\/what-the-florida-teacher-evaluation-lawsuit-could-mean-for-other-states\/\">challenged the evaluation law in court<\/a> and argued the system is unfair. Some teachers of courses that might not have an end-of-year exam, such as art or music, have been evaluated using school-wide average scores. Teachers say that means they are evaluated based on students they have not taught.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher evaluations could be an important issue <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/11\/18\/school-funding-teacher-evaluations-key-issues-early-in-governors-race\/\">in next year&#8217;s gubernatorial race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more info on how the evaluations are calculated and what the ratings mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/05\/2011-2012-florida-school-teacher-evaluation-data-by-school\/\">check out this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 98 percent of Florida teachers earned a top rating, according to initial statewide teacher evaluation data released Tuesday, a slight increase over last year&#8217;s results. About one-third of teachers earned the top rating of &#8220;highly effective,&#8221; up from 23 percent of teachers last year. About 66 percent were rated &#8220;effective,&#8221; the largest category this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1108,1119,1079],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20832,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions\/20832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}