Los Angeles public schools can proceed with a new teacher-evaluation system—including using students standardized-test scores as one measure of teacher effectiveness—after state officials rejected a union effort to block the plan. United Teachers Los Angeles had filed a complaint with the Public Employment Relations Board, which dismissed the complaint last month.
A version of this article appeared in the June 08, 2011 edition of Education Week as L.A. Teacher-Evaluations Complaint Dismissed
