AP Exclusive: SCORE report to address key concern from teachers

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The head of an education foundation commissioned by Gov. Bill Haslam to review Tennessee's new teacher evaluation system says it has identified a key concern teachers have about the testing data used to evaluate them and will propose recommendations to address it.
   
Former state Sen. Jamie Woodson, a Knoxville Republican, met with The Associated Press late last week to discuss the report to be released on Monday by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education, or SCORE.
   
Haslam announced in December that he was commissioning an outside review of the heavily criticized new system.
   
He asked the recommendations be reported back to the state this summer.
   
Woodson wouldn't reveal the specific recommendations before the release of the report, but she did highlight three main concerns, one of which is that a majority of teachers do not have individual value-added student growth data for their grades and subjects.

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