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SB 1285 Teachers; salary to equal or surpass nat'l. average for those in public schools, annual evaluation.

Introduced by: Mary Margaret Whipple | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Teacher quality; evaluation and compensation.  Establishes, as a goal of the Commonwealth, that the average salary for Virginia public school teachers equal or surpass the national average salary for public school teachers, and the Commonwealth's national ranking for such salaries. The bill also requires the evaluation of each teacher with continuing contract status at least once every three years.  Such teachers who have an unsatisfactory evaluation must be evaluated the following year.  Evaluations must be maintained in the employee's personnel file and copies of the evaluations must be made available to the Board of Education upon the request of the Board.  Further, the Board of Education must establish guidelines for the evaluation of instructional personnel and for the review by the division superintendent or his designee of an unsatisfactory evaluation.  

Under current law, probationary teachers are to be evaluated annually (§ 22.1-303). The Code also directs the Board of Education to develop criteria for use by division superintendents and principals for the evaluation of instructional personnel; these criteria can be found in the Board's "Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents."


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