By Associated Press
Nashville, TN – Governor Bill Haslam and other state education officials are scheduled to discuss preliminary results of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program today. Discussion of the state proficiency test achievement data follows education reform legislation Haslam signed into law. The tenure law, in particular, requires a teacher to be on the job five years instead of three to get tenure, and creates a way for job security to be revoked for poor teaching performance. Critics of the law say the evaluation system is suspect and there is no determination on how best to rate educators whose subjects aren't covered by the state's value-added test scoring program.