A recent opinion by the Virginia Supreme Court illustrates just how closely requests for teacher-specific information can be scrutinized, and drives home the importance of carefully considering an open-records request before making it.
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Does your teacher make the grade?
Parents and educators debate the balance between the public's right to know and privacy when it comes to releasing teacher evaluation data.
Connecticut high court rules that reports of teacher misconduct are open record
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that it is too broad to exempt any evaluatory records of university faculty from disclosure.
The forecast for public access to teacher performance data under Florida’s Sunshine Law: Mostly cloudy
After a Florida court declared that reports about teacher performance must be kept confidential for a year after they are created, a state legislator is proposing to keep the information off-limits for even longer.A bill filed Monday by state Rep.