Jessica Bakeman is reporting at Capital New York the State Board of Regents plans to meet the demands of the executive and legislative branches by putting in place a new system for evaluating the performance of public-school teachers and principals. However, board members will be doing so under protest. The Regents discussed for hours Mon., May 18, the regulations they must adopt next month to meet the deadlines imposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the state Legislature. The 17-member board also discussed ways the new system might be overhauled immediately after it is implemented. Chancellor Merryl Tisch questioned the wisdom of imposing a new system on districts only to change it. Tisch told reporters districts will inevitably get mixed messages about how to proceed, because many board members simply do not want to implement the law as written. She said, “Districts are having reform fatigue. I don’t find that superintendents don’t want to cooperate. That’s not it. I think they’re getting a lot of mixed messages from the field.” Read the full story at Capital New York.