The Houston Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Houston Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles and the school board for implementing the new teacher evaluation system.
This system decides the employment situation of teachers and their pay, HFT said in a news release.
“Injunction relief is necessary in this matter because if not granted, teachers will be appraised this current school year and have those appraisals used by HISD to make high-stakes employment decisions under an illegally developed appraisal system,” the suit states.“Superintendent Miles has grossly and illegally expanded both his power and that of the appointed school board.
The code also requires that the appraisal systems inform teachers of how their performance will be measured, and this is created using factors that can be observed. This includes how teachers manage discipline or student performance. Anderson said teachers would have asked for an itemization on how they will be evaluated, but they were not able to do this.
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