ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) New Mexico school districts are giving mixed reviews on this year's new teacher evaluations. Roswell Superintendent Tom Burris told The Albuquerque Journal that his school district only discovered a small percentage of its evaluations contained errors. That affected about 4 percent of its 700 teachers.
Meanwhile, Moriarty-Edgewood Schools Superintendent Tom Sullivan says 40 out of 160 teacher evaluations contained errors, and those included teachers getting data that didn't belong to them. Los Alamos reported 25 percent of its evaluations contained errors, Rio Rancho found errors in 50 percent, and Moriarty-Edgewood reported errors in 25 percent.
The state Public Education Department overhauled the evaluation system after officials said the old system lacked accountability, pointing to the fact that 99 percent of teachers were considered effective.
