HB 3035: Educator performance

Summary

• Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to create common, statewide models for evaluation criteria and four-level rating systems for classroom teachers and principals, based on specified minimum criteria.
• Establishes a phase-in schedule beginning in 2010-11 with selected districts who agree to collaborate in the development of the evaluation systems and requiring statewide implementation in 2013-14.
• Requires school districts either to adopt the statewide evaluation models or submit a modified system that the SPI may approve for use if it is equivalent to or better than the statewide model.
• Extends provisional status for non-supervisory certificated staff from two to three years.
• Establishes a new process and standards for transferring principals to a subordinate position, which applies only to principals hired after the bill takes effect and in school districts with more than 35,000 students.
• Amends the law pertaining to supplemental contracts to include implementing innovative activities to close the achievement gap or develop learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

From the House Bill Report (HB 3035), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗