In the last few years, all but a few U.S. states have rushed to enact tougher teacher evaluation systems. Spurred by the incentives offered by two federal education initiatives--Race to the Top and the ESEA Flexibility Program--these states have designed teacher evaluation systems designed to "remove ineffective tenured and untenured…

A survey among 140 advisory committee members serving various levels of administration in Florida's seven largest county districts revealed that committees are not involved in budgeting or staff evaluation, and that they seldom succeed in getting other changes made. (Author/MLF)