Hawaii got another public rap on the knuckles when the Center for American Progress released its report on states’ Race to the Top progress this month. 

Hawaii promised to implement evaluations (aka performance assessments) to measure teacher effectiveness, “with student measures of growth to count for a full 50% of the evaluation by 2013-14,” according to its grant application.

But it turns out our state won’t even be able to provide student growth data — half of the necessary ingredients for the teacher evaluations — until two years after that: 2015-2016.

Hawaii Reporter has some other interesting quotes from the report, and it is available in full here.

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