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VEA representative warns Halifax County schools may be using evaluations that conflict with board policy and state procedures
Summary
Alice Willingham, a Virginia Education Association representative, told the school board that Halifax County’s teacher evaluation program omits an updated standard and uses outdated rating labels; the superintendent said staff will investigate and report back.
Alice Willingham, the Virginia Education Association representative for Halifax County Public Schools, told the school board during public comment that the district’s teacher-evaluation program does not match the board’s revised policy and state guidance.
Willingham said the school board revised policy GCN on June 14, 2021, to adopt updated teacher-evaluation criteria approved by the Virginia Board of Education on March 18, 2021, and that the district’s evaluation system currently “only has 7” standards while the updated criteria include eight. She also said the district’s rating labels remained the older set ("exemplary, proficient, developing, needs improvement, and unacceptable") rather than the…
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