Signed by Governor Bill Lee

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that rescinds teacher accountability measures tied to student testing for the 2020-21 school year.

Highlights:

• Defines “final evaluation score” as an individual’s level of overall effectiveness score (Sec. 6).

• Specifies that if an individual teacher’s student growth data reflects attainment of an achievement level of “at expectations”, “above expectations”, or “significantly above expectations” as provided in the evaluation guidelines then the student growth data shall comprise between 50 and 100 percent of the teacher or principal’s evaluation if requested by the teacher (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the state shall not require teachers in non-tested grades and subjects to be evaluated using an alternative growth model for the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year (Sec. 4).

• Requires that for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2020-2021 school year must be excluded from the student growth measure of a teacher’s evaluation, unless including the composites results in a higher final evaluation score for the teacher (Sec. 5).

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