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2000 SESSION
SB 549 Teacher quality improvement.
Introduced by: William T. Bolling | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Teacher quality improvement. Provides school boards with the discretion to adopt an alternative continuing contract employment process for probationary teachers. This provision authorizes school boards to require teachers to submit applications for continuing contract status, i.e., an employment status that is analogous, but not identical, to tenure. During the third year of their probationary service, teachers who were hired for a probationary term of service that begins in the year in which a school board adopts the alternative process would be subject to the school board's new process. The new procedure will be used by division superintendents and principals in the evaluation process and must be "appropriate to the tasks performed," e.g., student academic progress and the skills and knowledge of instructional personnel, including instructional methodology, classroom management, and knowledge of subject matter. The procedures must cover such matters as: the selection, training, and use of continuing contract review committees; the procedures whereby the committees will review the applications and make recommendations to the principal and division superintendent regarding applicants; the required application materials which must include evidence of pupil academic performance and may also include other data and materials to assist the continuing contract review committee in the application review process and the school board in making employment determinations, and the procedures for obtaining assistance in the preparation of the application data and attachments.
FULL TEXT
- 01/24/00 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 004820404 pdf
- 02/03/00 Senate: Committee substitute printed 006130404-S1 pdf
- 02/07/00 Senate: Printed as engrossed 006130404-ES1 pdf
- 03/03/00 House: Committee substitute printed 004487404-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/24/00 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 004820404
- 01/24/00 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/03/00 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/03/00 Senate: Committee substitute printed 006130404-S1
- 02/04/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (35-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/00 Senate: Read second time
- 02/07/00 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/07/00 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 006130404-S1
- 02/07/00 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/07/00 Senate: Amendment #1 by Sen. Houck withdrawn
- 02/07/00 Senate: Amendments #2 & #3 by Sen. Houck agreed to
- 02/07/00 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. w/amds 006130404-ES1
- 02/07/00 Senate: Printed as engrossed 006130404-ES1
- 02/08/00 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N)
- 02/08/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (24-Y 15-N)
- 02/08/00 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/14/00 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/00 House: Read first time
- 02/14/00 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/18/00 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee:3
- 03/03/00 House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 2-N)
- 03/03/00 House: Committee substitute printed 004487404-H1
- 03/06/00 House: Read second time
- 03/07/00 House: Read third time
- 03/07/00 House: Committee substitute agreed to 004487404-H1
- 03/07/00 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 004487404-H1
- 03/07/00 House: Passed House with substitute (94-Y 3-N)
- 03/07/00 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 3-N)
- 03/09/00 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/09/00 Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 38-N)
- 03/09/00 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENT (2-Y 38-N)
- 03/09/00 House: House insisted on substitute
- 03/09/00 House: House requested conference committee
- 03/09/00 Senate: Senate acceded to request (37-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/00 Senate: VOTE: ACCEDE CONF. COMM. (37-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/00 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/09/00 House: Delegates: Katzen, Harris, Williams
- 03/09/00 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/09/00 Senate: Senators: Bolling, Newman, Couric
- 03/10/00 Senate: No further action taken
- 03/10/00 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate