Change of plans. Meetings creating teacher evaluations will be public. | The Connecticut Mirror: "This decision to conduct open meetings comes one day after the Connecticut Mirror reported that several private meetings have taken place without public notice and that 10 more closed sessions had been scheduled.
It also follows a contentious Performance Evaluation Advisory Council meeting last week, the first public meeting in three months, where members butted heads on how much weight to give students' standardized test results in teacher evaluations.
The council had planned to reconvene this past Monday to start to hash out issues raised during the meeting, but Monday's session was cancelled, and the closed "working group" meetings scheduled instead. The next public meeting had not been scheduled until June 21, nine days before the panel's June 30 deadline. The state Board of Education is expected to sign off on the evaluations shortly after that.
The state's Freedom of Information Act defines a meeting as "any hearing or other proceeding of a public agency, any convening or assembly of a quorum of a multimember public agency.""
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