“Last year, this house passed legislation to cleanly decouple student performance on statewide assessments from teacher evaluations. The bill we passed today fails to meet that standard. 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation will still be based on assessments, which, for all intents and purposes, means more the same: more high-stakes tests, more concerned parents, more needlessly stressed kids and more educators teaching to tests written by bureaucrats instead of meeting the individualized needs of their students. I couldn’t support this. We need to do better for our kids,” said Ra.