Bill No.:                     HB0072                                 Drafter:  DRN

LSO No.:                   13LSO-0311                         Effective Date:  Immediate

Enrolled Act No.:    HEA0060

Chapter No.:            CH0167

Prime Sponsor:       Select Committee on Statewide Education Accountability

Catch Title:              Statewide education accountability-phase II  (Sub #1).

Subject:                     Revision of teacher and school leader evaluation          efforts.

Summary/Major Elements:  This act:

· Delays implementation of phase II of the statewide education accountability system pertaining to teacher and school leader evaluation by providing a phased-in approach over the course of a four-year period commencing school year 2013‑2014;

· Establishes goals and objectives for the design framework around which phase II will be developed;

· Specifies measures of teacher and leader evaluation including evidence of student learning as well as professional educator practice, as organized into five specified domain areas (learner development, content knowledge and application, instructional practice, professional responsibility and evidence of student learning);

· Specifies four areas of performance descriptors including highly effective performance, effective performance, performance in need of improvement and ineffective performance;

· Requires further study by advisory committee, comprised of education stakeholders, to refine and develop the phase II system and to report system design recommendations to legislative select committee on education accountability; report to select committee to be submitted by October 15, 2013, with select committee to forward recommendations to 2014 legislature;

· The October report will set in motion a phased-in implementation plan whereby system components are piloted in accordance with prescribed timelines;

· Under the phased-in plan, the leader evaluation system is finalized prior to the teacher system to enable leader participation in finalization of teacher system;

· Leader evaluation system specified to be fully implemented by school year 2015‑2016, and the teacher evaluation system scheduled to be fully implemented in school year 2016‑2017;

· Requires state board of education to promulgate rules and regulations governing school district evaluation systems by school year 2016‑2017 for teachers, and by school year 2015‑2016 for leaders, with required school district reporting to district boards and to state board;

· “Teachers of record” as a required component of the teacher evaluation system is eliminated, and in lieu thereof, an appropriate methodology is required to link student performance to the evaluation of teacher and leader performance.

Comments:

· Popular name:  Teacher and school leader evaluation.

· Report Required:  Not later than October 15, 2013, to the Select Committee on Statewide Education Accountability.

· Creates/amends major program.