CPS pilot program could hold answers to overhauling teacher evaluations

Few CPS teachers ever receive an unsatisfactory rating. But in the pilot program, which began in 44 schools, a new framework led to 8 percent of teachers getting at least one unsatisfactory rating.

Lauren Sartain is one of the authors of the report. She says the pilot program helps principals do a better job of rating teachers because it clearly defines an unsatisfactory rating as "doing harm to students." She says that's not the case with the system CPS has been using for the last 30 years...