Whitmer signs two bills delaying new teacher standards
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law on Tuesday two bills that will delay changes to the way the state evaluates its educators, narrowly beating the deadline before which they would have taken effect.
Senate Bills 122 and 202, introduced by state Sen. Ken Horn (R-Frankenmuth), will prevent a planned increase in the share of formal evaluations based on student data from standardized testing — the former regarding those for teachers and the latter those for administrators.
“As I continue to visit schools across the state, nearly every educator says the same thing: they are forced to spend more time on testing than actually teaching their students how to learn,” Whitmer said in a statement. “We know that test scores are only one piece of the puzzle and not the whole story. I’ve put forth a real solution in the budget to boost student performance, and I look forward to working with the legislature to get it done.”*
The original plan was enacted under Republican former Gov. Rick Snyder and would have taken effect for the 2018-19 school year if the current legislation was not adopted by early May.
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