Teacher Evaluation

There's something worrying - at least my two cents - in the otherwise welcome news that the teachers' strike is over, that the folks who teach our children will deservedly be earning more.
In the proposed contract the district agrees to review, with the teachers union, all tests and test schedules. That may be a positive in the endless quarrel over testing, but it may provide only a place for the arguments - and likely stalemates - to continue. Wish it well, though.

But what's really concerning is the reported agreement on teacher evaluations - that is, test scores will no longer play ANY role. No role at all? How will we then fully measure teacher effectiveness? 

Of course test scores are not the only sum of a teacher's impact on students, but to say they mean nothing, that they "play no role" in evaluations, seems ridiculous.
If a class repeatedly fails basic tests that measure student progress, has this nothing to do with the skill of the teacher? Are we to totally ignore the progress - or lack of it - of students in evaluating their teachers?
If so, how will we evaluate? 

At times I wonder if teachers, or at least their union representatives, want any kind of measurement. And yet, because effective teaching is crucial in this or any other society, we must be able to give measure to the skills of those who lead our classrooms.

To say that test scores are irrelevant in that measurement is, to repeat, ridiculous.