![]() ![]() West Virginia's progress toward meeting these goals is summarized. The state has the most work to do in making tenure decisions meaningful ensuring only factors that advance teacher effectiveness are required for permanent licenses ensuring its pension system is portable, flexible and fair and strengthening its policies regarding teacher compensation issues. ![]() West Virginia's best performances are in its effective induction for new teachers and its requirement of multiple formal evaluations for new teachers. ![]() The state completely missed eight goals, met a small portion of one, partially met three, nearly met one and fully met two. While West Virginia is making progress toward meeting some of the goals, significant room for improvement remains in many others. Broadly, these goals examine the impact of state policy on 1) identifying effective teachers, 2) retaining those deemed effective and 3) exiting those deemed ineffective. This policy evaluation is broken down into three areas that encompass 15 goals. This report presents the West Virginia edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's 2008 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook." The 2008 "Yearbook" focuses on how state policies impact the retention of effective new teachers. ![]()
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