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2005 SESSION
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."
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/05 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 051857102 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 053958102-S1 pdf
- 02/08/05 Senate: Floor substitute printed 052992844-S2 (Whipple) pdf
- 02/16/05 House: Committee substitute printed 051879844-H1 pdf
HISTORY
- 01/20/05 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 051857102
- 01/20/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/04/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 053958102-S1
- 02/04/05 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Read second time
- 02/08/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/05 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 053958102-S1
- 02/08/05 Senate: Floor substitute printed 052992844-S2 (Whipple)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/05 Senate: Substitute by Sen. Whipple agreed to 052992844-S2
- 02/08/05 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1285S2
- 02/08/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/11/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/11/05 House: Read first time
- 02/11/05 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/16/05 House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 1-N)
- 02/16/05 House: Committee substitute printed 051879844-H1
- 02/17/05 House: Read second time
- 02/18/05 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 02/18/05 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/21/05 House: Left in Appropriations