The state Legislature signed off on a final state budget on March 31 that will deliver an extra $465 million to New York City schools next year, a 6 percent increase that is the largest in eight years.

A two-month-long surge of protests on the ground and on social media by parents and educators forced Gov. Andrew Cuomo to drop or modify many of the education proposals that he had originally sought to attach to the budget. And in the end, the budget included a $1.6 billion statewide increase in school aid, far above what he originally proposed.

But the governor did succeed in setting in motion another overhaul of the teacher evaluation system, whose details will be worked out in the months ahead by the State Education Department and in negotiations between each local school district and its teachers union. He pressured the state Legislature to pass a modified version of his receivership plan for struggling schools. And the Legislature also agreed to make the probationary period for teachers hired after July 1, 2015, one year longer.

“Our campaign succeeded in raising public awareness about the real challenges our schools face,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew. “But we remain deeply concerned about the continued outsize role of high-stakes testing in our school system.”

Details of the final budget were just being released as the New York Teacher went to press.

On teacher evaluation, among the most contentious education issues in the fight, the legislation includes a fairer, more rational scoring system than the current complex system that relies on points and percentages. Standardized tests, however, will continue to play a significant role in ratings. The option of local measures of student learning, which must be locally bargained, will remain.

The measures of teacher practice component of a teacher’s evaluation, going forward, must be a combination of a principal’s observation and an outside evaluator’s.

The State Education Department has until late June to work out the final details of the new evaluation system, and districts must negotiate a final plan by Nov. 15.

“We are going to do everything in our power to ensure that the State Education Department produces an evaluation system that works for our members,” Mulgrew said.

On teacher tenure, the Legislature struck a compromise with the governor. The probationary period for new teachers will be extended from three to four years. (Nearly 40 percent of New York City teachers eligible for tenure are already extended a fourth year.)

Teachers will be eligible for tenure after receiving three Effective ratings in their first four years as long as they don’t receive an Ineffective rating in their fourth year (which would prompt an extension). The governor had originally sought to extend probation to five years and to restart the clock when a new teacher received a single Ineffective rating.

Schools designated by the state as “persistently failing” or “failing” will have one or two years, respectively, to show progress. If they do not, an independent receiver will be appointed by the local superintendent (the schools chancellor in New York City), not by the state as the governor originally wanted.

The receiver may be a non-profit entity, another school district or an individual. It will have the authority to convert the school into a community school, alter or replace curriculum, increase teacher salaries or extend the school day or school year, among other things.

The receiver will not have the power to scrap all the collective-bargaining agreements, as the governor had wanted. It may, however, ask all staff in the building to reapply for their jobs.

Some of the initiatives that Cuomo dropped from the budget — notably the charter cap — are likely to come up again during the remainder of the current legislative session.

“We still have many battles to fight ahead,” Mulgrew said. “We oppose the raising of the charter cap until charter schools serve an appropriate percentage of the state’s neediest children, and we will be working with the State Education Department on the details of a fair evaluation process for teachers.”