July 16,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Three years after New Jersey’s tenure-reform law was signed, the Christie administration has publicly released the first results of the new teacher-evaluation system, district by district, school by school.The state Department of Education yesterday released data for every school on the number of teachers falling into each category – they were ranked from “ineffective” to “highly effective” — of the new system for 2013-14.We pulled the numbers from the Ridgewood Schools district and this is what we found :
Ridgewood High School: Effective: 92, Highly Effective: 39
Benjamin Franklin Middle School: Effective: 28, Highly Effective: 24
George Washington Middle School: Effective: 42, Highly Effective: 14
Hawes Elementary School: Effective: 21
Ridge Elementary School: Effective: 29
Somerville: Effective: 29
Travell Elementary School: Effective: 20
Orchard Elementary School: Effective 19
Willard Elementary School: Effective: 21, Highly Effective: 14
https://www.njspotlight.com/tables/njdoe_staff_eval_1314/#/c04/RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE
Somerville has 25 effective and 12 highly effective
The numbers in the attached chart don’t add up. Talk about ineffective.