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Michigan Senate votes to delay teacher evaluation system

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Jennifer Guerra
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Michigan Radio

It appears lawmakers could once again delay the implementation of a new statewide teacher evaluation system.

The state Senate has unanimously voted to push back the deadline until the 2015-2016 school year.

The bill would also reduce from 50% to 40% the portion of teacher evaluations that would be based on standardized tests that measure student growth.

The state's current test, the MEAP, does not measure student growth, but lawmakers are locked in a fight over which test should replace the MEAP or whether to replace it at all.

Under state law, the new evaluation system was supposed to be in place during the current school year.

Vincent Duffy has been news director at Michigan Public since May 2007.
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