Database on State Teacher Evaluation Policies (STEP)

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Comprehensive Comparison
Compare 3 states across all components.

Single Topic Comparison
Compare multiple states on a single topic area.

State Roles


State Roles

Traditionally the purview of districts, control over teacher evaluation policy is increasingly shifting to the state level; there is wide variation, however, in what role states adopt and what degree of flexibility is left to districts in designing and implementing new teacher evaluation systems. The State Roles page provides a brief narrative describing the distribution of control over teacher evaluation policy in each state. To allow for easy comparison, each state is categorized as belonging to one of three hypothetical models, described in the graphic below that illustrates low, moderate, or high levels of state control over teacher evaluation policy.

To view a short narrative on each state, click the state’s name below each model description. To compare narratives on two or more states, select State Roles.

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