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SB 1223 Public schools; evaluation policies and grievance procedures.
Introduced by: Thomas K. Norment, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Public schools; evaluation policies and grievance procedures. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated. The bill requires teachers, assistant principals, and principals to be evaluated every year, either formally or informally, and such evaluations to include student academic progress as a significant component and an overall summative rating. The bill allows local school boards to increase from three years to five years the term of probationary service required before a teacher becomes eligible for a continuing contract.
The bill also changes the grievance procedure for teachers by giving local school boards the option to assign a grievance hearing to be heard by an impartial hearing officer designated by the local school board and by removing the option for a grievance to be heard in front of a fact-finding panel. The bill incorporates SB 935 and is identical to HB 2151.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/13 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103695D pdf
- 01/24/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed 13104502D-S1 pdf
- 01/31/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed 13104851D-S2 pdf
- 02/19/13 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1223ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/20/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/13 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103695D
- 01/09/13 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/24/13 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed 13104502D-S1
- 01/25/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/13 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
- 01/28/13 Senate: Recommitted to Education and Health
- 01/31/13 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (12-Y 2-N)
- 01/31/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed 13104851D-S2
- 02/01/13 Senate: Incorporates SB935
- 02/01/13 Senate: Read second time
- 02/01/13 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/13 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/13 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/13 Senate: Committee substitute #1 rejected 13104502D-S1
- 02/04/13 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/13 Senate: Committee substitute #2 agreed to 13104851D-S2
- 02/04/13 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1223S2
- 02/04/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/13 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/13 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/13 House: Read first time
- 02/06/13 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/11/13 House: Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N)
- 02/12/13 House: Read second time
- 02/13/13 House: Read third time
- 02/13/13 House: Amendments by Delegate Ward rejected
- 02/13/13 House: Passed House (75-Y 25-N)
- 02/13/13 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (75-Y 25-N)
- 02/19/13 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/19/13 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1223ER)
- 02/19/13 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/13 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/20/13 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 650 (effective 7/1/13)
- 03/20/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650)