Student Scores May Be Used In LAUSD Teacher Ratings

After months of tense negotiations, leaders of the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have tentatively agreed to use student test scores to evaluate instructors for the first time, officials announced Friday. Under the breakthrough agreement, the nation's second-largest school district would join Chicago and a growing number of other cities in using test scores as one measure of how much teachers help their students progress academically in a year. Teresa Watanabe and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2012