Since the 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a large number of states have backed away from recently enacted policies that were designed to breathe new life into moribund teacher and principal evaluation systems.
No fewer than 30 states have recently withdrawn at least one of the evaluation reforms that they adopted during a flurry of national activity between 2009 and 2015. Notably, nine fewer states now require teacher evaluations to include objective measures of student growth. Fewer states also now require annual evaluations for all teachers, for teachers who receive low evaluation ratings to be put on improvement plans, and both objective measures of student growth and annual evaluations for principals.
Read the full NCTQ State of the States 2019: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policy or search and compare the updated data, analysis, and recommendations for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the NCTQ State Teacher Policy Database.
