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2005 SESSION
051857102Patrons-- Whipple, Colgan, Deeds, Edwards, Houck, Howell, Lambert, Locke, Lucas, Miller, Puckett, Puller, Reynolds, Saslaw and Ticer
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 22.1-289.1 and 22.1-295 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-289.1. Teacher compensation; biennial review required.
It is a goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is competitive in order to attract and keep competent teachers. To meet this goal, it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth that the average salary for Virginia public school teachers shall equal or surpass the national average salary for public school teachers. The Board of Education and the General Assembly shall implement this policy in prescribing and revising the Standards of Quality required by Article VIII of the Constitution of Virginia and as set forth in Chapter 13.2 (§ 22.1-253.13:1 et seq.) of this title.
The Director of Human Resource
Management shall conduct a biennial review of the compensation of teachers and
other occupations requiring similar education and training. The results of
these reviews shall be reported to the Governor, the General Assembly and the
Board of Education by June 1 of each odd-numbered year beginning with 1989.
However, a preliminary report shall be submitted by the Director of Human
Resource Management by December 15, 1987. The Director shall
include in each report the average salary for teachers in the Commonwealth, the
national average salary for public school teachers, and the Commonwealth's
national ranking for such salaries.
To compute such national average, the Director shall add the average salary for public school teachers in each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, and divide by 51.
§ 22.1-295. Employment of teachers.
A. The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation of the division superintendent. In placing teachers, school boards shall fill positions with licensed instructional personnel qualified in the relevant subject areas.
B. School boards shall, in
accordance with guidelines established by the Board of Education,
adopt employment policies and practices designed to promote the employment and
retention of the highest quality instructional personnel and to effectively
serve the educational needs of students. Such policies shall include, but need
not be limited to, incentives for excellence in teaching, including financial
support for teachers attending professional development seminars or those
seeking and obtaining national certification. School boards shall develop a
procedure for use by division superintendents and principals in evaluating
conducting annual evaluations of all instructional
personnel that is appropriate to the tasks performed and addresses, among other
things, student academic progress and the skills and knowledge of instructional
personnel, including, but not limited to, instructional methodology, classroom
management, and subject matter knowledge. Such
annual evaluations of instructional personnel shall be maintained in the
employee's personnel file. Copies of the annual evaluations shall be made
available to the Board of Education, upon the request of the Board.
The Board of Education shall establish guidelines for the annual evaluation of instructional personnel and for the review by the division superintendent or his designee of an unsatisfactory evaluation. Such guidelines may provide for formal and informal evaluations in alternating years.