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Yesterday after signing HB 21 (Teach for America), Governor Kasich invited Ohio’s teachers to offer input into the evaluation framework (SB 5) that will be used to determine compensation based on merit.
The Columbus Dispatch reports:

“There are teachers in the state who are concerned about the criteria,” Kasich said. “I want to make sure that teachers across the state know that if they want to participate in establishing this criteria, we want to invite them to be a part of this process.

“They can contact the governor’s office. They can start there, and send an email. … I look forward to it. And even if there are several hundred that want to participate, we’ll sit them down and walk them through this.”

According to Senate Bill 5, which limits collective bargaining for all public employees, the state superintendent is to submit to the state Board of Education by April 20, 2012, a framework for judging a teacher’s performance, based at least 50 percent on student academic growth.

Even without the governor’s invitation, there would have ample opportunity for input from teachers and pretty much anyone else. The State Board is required to use a process that includes public hearings, and a web-based comment period.

I predict lots of “input.”