Mike Miles has wasted no time in restructuring schools and proposing administrative layoffs. The changes are designed to pay teachers at struggling schools more if their students show improvement.

The State Board of Education must still approve use of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment, which was dropped by two states that had adopted it.

Two states have dropped the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment, and three others passed on it or want it gone.

The policy sidelines educators, often for two school years, at a time when districts are already struggling to keep teachers in the classrooms.