Mexico Passes a Weakened Bill to Evaluate Teachers

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/world/americas/mexico-passes-a-softened-bill-to-evaluate-teachers.html?hpw

The pressure resulted in concessions that “diluted key aspects” of the original plan, the broad outlines of which were approved in December, said Sergio Cárdenas, an education expert at CIDE, a Mexico City university. The bill that passed Wednesday specified how that plan was to be put in effect.
      

For the first time, teachers would undergo mandatory periodic evaluations, for example, but the detailed results would remain confidential. When the overhaul was first drafted and submitted to Congress, it did not make it explicit that evaluation results would be confidential, leading experts and some lawmakers to believe that the results would be public. Analysts are calling the confidentiality clause significant because it would deny access to information in the midst of an effort to add transparency to the teaching process.

      

Fired teachers would also be able to appeal their cases in court, something the administration wanted to avoid.