Houston district agrees not to use teacher evaluation method that union said was deeply flawed.

The Houston school district has settled a lawsuit with its teachers union by agreeing to pay $237,000 in legal fees and to stop using a teacher evaluation system that the union said was deeply flawed.

The Houston Chronicle reports that the suit was brought in 2014 by the Houston Federation of Teachers and seven teachers; at issue was the district's use of a secret algorithm that it was using to determine which teachers were evaluated, fired and given bonuses.

The system, called the Educational Value Added Assessment System,...