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SENATE BILL NO. 1061 – Teacher effectiveness evaluation

SENATE BILL NO. 1061

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S1061aa........................................................by EDUCATION
TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS - Amends existing law to authorize
criteria to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness including
classroom management, adherence to district curriculum, parent
communication, student progress and professional conduct.
                                                                        
02/05    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/06    Rpt prt - to Educ
02/19    Rpt out - to 14th Ord
02/22    Rpt out amen - to engros
02/23    Rpt engros - 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
02/26    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
03/02    3rd rdg as amen - PASSED - 25-9-1
      AYES -- Boatright, Branch(Bartlett), Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
      Danielson, Davis, Deide, Frasure, Geddes, Goedde, Hawkins, Ipsen,
      Lee, Lodge, Noh, Richardson, Risch, Sandy, Sims, Sorensen, Stegner,
      Thorne, Wheeler, Williams,
      NAYS -- Andreason, Brandt, Darrington, Ingram, Keough, King-Barrutia,
      Schroeder, Stennett, Whitworth
      Absent and excused -- Dunklin
    Floor Sponsor -- Deide
    Title apvd - to House
03/05    House intro - 1st rdg - to Educ

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  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-sixth Legislature                  First Regular Session - 2001
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1061
                                                                        
                                   BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO CERTIFICATED EMPLOYEES; AMENDING SECTION 33-514,  IDAHO  CODE,  AS
  3        AMENDED  BY  SECTION 1, CHAPTER 66, LAWS OF 2000, TO AUTHORIZE CRITERIA TO
  4        EVALUATE TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS; AND AMENDING SECTION 33-515,  IDAHO  CODE,
  5        TO AUTHORIZE CRITERIA TO EVALUATE TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS.
                                                                        
  6    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  7        SECTION  1.  That  Section  33-514,  Idaho  Code, as amended by Section 1,
  8    Chapter 66, Laws of 2000, be, and the same is hereby amended to read  as  fol-
  9    lows:
                                                                        
 10        33-514.  ISSUANCE OF ANNUAL CONTRACTS -- SUPPORT PROGRAMS -- CATEGORIES OF
 11    CONTRACTS  --  OPTIONAL  PLACEMENT.  (1) The board of trustees shall establish
 12    criteria and procedures for the supervision  and  evaluation  of  certificated
 13    employees  who  are  not  employed on a renewable contract, as provided for in
 14    section 33-515, Idaho Code. Criteria shall include but  are  not  limited  to,
 15    classroom  management, adherence to district adopted curriculum, parent commu-
 16    nication, teacher effectiveness as evidenced by student growth  determined  by
 17    an assessment program based on district curriculum, and professional conduct.
 18        (2)  Each  school  district  shall have a support program for certificated
 19    employees who are experiencing their first three (3) years with the  district,
 20    under a category 1, 2 or 3 contract, providing support in the areas of: admin-
 21    istrative and supervisory support, mentoring, peer assistance and professional
 22    development.  In  developing support programs, nothing shall prevent districts
 23    from joining together to formulate a joint program applicable to  each  member
 24    district.  Programs shall be submitted for approval to the state department of
 25    education in accordance with procedures established  by  the  department.  The
 26    state department of education is hereby authorized and directed to:
 27        (a)  Formulate  basic  guidelines which districts shall use as a model for
 28        developing district programs;
 29        (b)  Approve school district support programs; and
 30        (c)  Establish procedures for districts to submit programs  for  approval,
 31        to  provide  for  periodic  review of previously approved programs, and to
 32        allow districts to amend previously approved programs.
 33        (3)  There shall be three (3) categories of annual contracts available  to
 34    local school districts under which to employ certificated personnel:
 35        (a)  A  category  1 contract is a limited one-year contract as provided in
 36        section 33-514A, Idaho Code.
 37        (b)  A category 2 contract is for certificated personnel in the first  and
 38        second years of continuous employment with the same school district. While
 39        employed  under  a category 2 contract, the employee shall be provided the
 40        services of the district support program referenced in subsection  (2)  of
 41        this  section.  Upon  the decision by a local school board not to reemploy
 42        the person for the following year, the certificated employee shall be pro-
 43        vided a written statement of reasons for non-reemployment by no later than
                                                                        
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  1        May 25. No property rights shall attach  to  a  category  2  contract  and
  2        therefore  the  employee  shall  not  be entitled to a review by the local
  3        board of the reasons or decision not to reemploy.
  4        (c)  A category 3 contract is for certificated personnel during the  third
  5        year of continuous employment by the same school district. District proce-
  6        dures  shall require at least one (1) evaluation prior to the beginning of
  7        the second semester of the school year and the results of any such evalua-
  8        tion shall be made a matter of record in the employee's personnel    file.
  9        When  any  such  employee's  work  is found to be unsatisfactory a defined
 10        period of probation shall be established by the  board,  but  in  no  case
 11        shall a probationary period be less than eight (8) weeks. After the proba-
 12        tionary  period,  action  shall  be  taken  by the board as to whether the
 13        employee is to be retained, immediately discharged, discharged upon termi-
 14        nation of the current contract or reemployed at the end  of  the  contract
 15        term under a continued probationary status. Notwithstanding the provisions
 16        of  sections 67-2344 and 67-2345, Idaho Code, a decision to place certifi-
 17        cated personnel on probationary status may be made  in  executive  session
 18        and  the   employee  shall  not  be named in the minutes of the meeting. A
 19        record of the decision shall be placed in the employee's  personnel  file.
 20        This  procedure shall not preclude recognition of unsatisfactory work at a
 21        subsequent evaluation and the establishment of a reasonable period of pro-
 22        bation. In all instances, the employee shall be duly notified  in  writing
 23        of the areas of work which are deficient, including the conditions of pro-
 24        bation.  Each such certificated employee on a category 3 contract shall be
 25        given notice, in writing, whether he or she will  be  reemployed  for  the
 26        next  ensuing year. Such notice shall be given by the board of trustees no
 27        later than the twenty-fifth day of May of each such year. If the board  of
 28        trustees  has  decided not to reemploy the certificated employee, then the
 29        notice must contain a statement of  reasons  for  such  decision  and  the
 30        employee  shall,  upon  request,  be given the opportunity for an informal
 31        review of such decision by the board of trustees.  The  parameters  of  an
 32        informal review shall be determined by the local board.
 33        (4)  School  districts  hiring  an employee who has been on renewable con-
 34    tract status with another Idaho district or has out-of-state experience  which
 35    would  otherwise qualify the certificated employee for renewable contract sta-
 36    tus in Idaho, shall have the option to immediately  grant  renewable  contract
 37    status, or to place the employee on a category 3 annual contract. Such employ-
 38    ment  on  a category 3 contract under the provisions of this subsection may be
 39    for one (1), two (2) or three (3) years.
 40        (5)  There shall be a minimum of two (2) written evaluations  in  each  of
 41    the annual contract years of employment, and at least one (1) evaluation shall
 42    be  completed before January 1 of each year. The provisions of this subsection
 43    (5) shall not apply to employees on a category 1 contract.
                                                                        
 44        SECTION 2.  That Section 33-515, Idaho Code, be, and the  same  is  hereby
 45    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 46        33-515.  ISSUANCE  OF  RENEWABLE  CONTRACTS. During the third full year of
 47    continuous employment by the same school  district,  including  any  specially
 48    chartered district, each certificated employee named in subsection 16. of sec-
 49    tion  33-1001, Idaho Code, and each school nurse and school librarian shall be
 50    evaluated for a renewable contract and shall, upon having been offered a  con-
 51    tract  for the next ensuing year, having given notice of acceptance of renewal
 52    and upon signing a contract for a fourth full year, be placed on  a  renewable
 53    contract  status  with said school district subject to the provisions included
                                                                        
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  1    in this chapter.
  2        After the third full year of employment and at least  once  annually,  the
  3    performance  of  each  such  certificated  employee,  school  nurse, or school
  4    librarian shall be evaluated according to criteria and procedures  established
  5    by the board of trustees in accordance with general guidelines approved by the
  6    state  board  of  education.  Criteria  shall  include but are not limited to,
  7    classroom management, adherence to district adopted curriculum, parent  commu-
  8    nication,  teacher  effectiveness as evidenced by student growth determined by
  9    an assessment program based on district curriculum, and professional  conduct.
 10    Except  as  otherwise  provided, that person shall have the right to automatic
 11    renewal of contract by giving notice, in writing, of  acceptance  of  renewal.
 12    Such  notice  shall  be  given to the board of trustees of the school district
 13    then employing such person not later than the first day of June preceding  the
 14    expiration  of  the term of the current contract. Except as otherwise provided
 15    by this paragraph, the board of trustees shall notify each person entitled  to
 16    be  employed  on a renewable contract of the requirement that such person must
 17    give the notice hereinabove and that failure to do so may  be  interpreted  by
 18    the  board  as a declination of the right to automatic renewal or the offer of
 19    another contract. Such notification shall be made, in writing, not later  than
 20    the  fifteenth  day  of May, in each year, except to those persons to whom the
 21    board, prior to said date, has sent proposed contracts for  the  next  ensuing
 22    year, or to whom the board has given the notice required by this section.
 23        Any  contract  automatically  renewed under the provisions of this section
 24    shall be for the same length as the term stated in the current contract and at
 25    a salary no lower than that specified therein, to which shall  be  added  such
 26    increments  as may be determined by the statutory or regulatory rights of such
 27    employee by reason of training, service, or performance.
 28        Nothing herein shall prevent the board of trustees from offering a renewed
 29    contract increasing the salary of any certificated person, or from reassigning
 30    an administrative employee to a nonadministrative  position  with  appropriate
 31    reduction  of salary from the preexisting salary level. In the event the board
 32    of trustees reassigns an administrative employee to a nonadministrative  posi-
 33    tion,  the  board  shall  give written notice to the employee which contains a
 34    statement of the reasons for the  reassignment.  The  employee,  upon  written
 35    request  to  the  board, shall be entitled to an informal review of that deci-
 36    sion. The process and procedure for the informal review shall be determined by
 37    the local board of trustees.
 38        Before a board of trustees can determine not to renew for  reasons  of  an
 39    unsatisfactory report of the performance of any certificated person whose con-
 40    tract  would  otherwise  be automatically renewed, or to renew the contract of
 41    any such person at a reduced salary, such person shall be entitled to  a  rea-
 42    sonable  period  of probation. This period of probation shall be preceded by a
 43    written notice from the board of trustees with reasons for  such  probationary
 44    period  and  with  provisions  for  adequate supervision and evaluation of the
 45    person's performance during the probationary period. Such period of  probation
 46    shall not affect the person's renewable contract status. Consideration of pro-
 47    bationary  status for certificated personnel is consideration of the status of
 48    an employee within the meaning of section 67-2345, Idaho Code, and may be held
 49    in executive session. If the consideration results in probationary status, the
 50    individual on probation shall not be named in the minutes of  the  meeting.  A
 51    record of the decision shall be placed in the teacher's personnel file.
 52        If  the  board  of  trustees takes action to immediately discharge or dis-
 53    charge upon termination of the current contract a  certificated  person  whose
 54    contract would otherwise be automatically renewed, or to renew the contract of
 55    any  such person at a reduced salary, the action of the board shall be consis-
                                                                        
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  1    tent with the procedures specified in section 33-513(5), Idaho Code, and  fur-
  2    thermore, the board shall notify the employee in writing whether there is just
  3    and  reasonable cause not to renew the contract or to reduce the salary of the
  4    affected employee, and if so, what reasons it relied upon in  that  determina-
  5    tion.
  6        If  the  board of trustees, for reasons other than unsatisfactory service,
  7    for  the ensuing contract year, determines to change the length  of  the  term
  8    stated in the current contract, reduce the salary or not renew the contract of
  9    a certificated person whose contract would otherwise be automatically renewed,
 10    nothing herein shall require a probationary period.

Amendment


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-sixth Legislature                  First Regular Session - 2001
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                     Moved by    Dunklin             
                                                                        
                                                     Seconded by Deide               
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                             SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. NO. 1061
                                                                        
  1                                AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1
  2        On page 1 of the printed bill, delete lines  14  through  17  and  insert:
  3    "section  33-515, Idaho Code. Evaluation criteria for general classroom teach-
  4    ers and principals shall include, but is not limited to, classroom management,
  5    adherence to district  adopted  curriculum,  parental  communication,  teacher
  6    effectiveness  as evidenced by student progress based on criteria agreed to by
  7    school board trustees, administrators and teachers, and  professional  conduct
  8    as  outlined in the code of ethics of the Idaho teaching profession adopted by
  9    the professional standards commission and the state board of education.".
                                                                        
 10                                AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2
 11        On page 3, delete lines 6 through 9 and insert: "state board of education.
 12    Evaluation criteria  for  general  classroom  teachers  and  principals  shall
 13    include,  but  is  not limited to, classroom management, adherence to district
 14    adopted curriculum, parental communication, teacher effectiveness as evidenced
 15    by student progress based on criteria agreed  to  by  school  board  trustees,
 16    administrators  and teachers, and professional conduct as outlined in the code
 17    of ethics of the Idaho teaching profession adopted by the  professional  stan-
 18    dards commission and the state board of education.".
                                                                        
 19                                 CORRECTIONS TO TITLE
 20        On  page 1, in line 4, following "TEACHER" insert: "AND PRINCIPAL"; and in
 21    line 5, following "TEACHER" insert: "AND PRINCIPAL".

Engrossed Bill (Original Bill with Amendment(s) Incorporated)


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-sixth Legislature                  First Regular Session - 2001
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                              SENATE BILL NO. 1061, As Amended
                                                                        
                                   BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO CERTIFICATED EMPLOYEES; AMENDING SECTION 33-514,  IDAHO  CODE,  AS
  3        AMENDED  BY  SECTION 1, CHAPTER 66, LAWS OF 2000, TO AUTHORIZE CRITERIA TO
  4        EVALUATE TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS; AND AMENDING SECTION 33-515,
  5        IDAHO CODE, TO AUTHORIZE CRITERIA TO EVALUATE TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL EFFEC-
  6        TIVENESS.
                                                                        
  7    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  8        SECTION 1.  That Section 33-514, Idaho Code,  as  amended  by  Section  1,
  9    Chapter  66,  Laws of 2000, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as fol-
 10    lows:
                                                                        
 11        33-514.  ISSUANCE OF ANNUAL CONTRACTS -- SUPPORT PROGRAMS -- CATEGORIES OF
 12    CONTRACTS -- OPTIONAL PLACEMENT. (1) The board  of  trustees  shall  establish
 13    criteria  and  procedures  for  the supervision and evaluation of certificated
 14    employees who are not employed on a renewable contract,  as  provided  for  in
 15    section 33-515, Idaho Code. Evaluation criteria for general classroom teachers
 16    and  principals  shall  include,  but is not limited to, classroom management,
 17    adherence to district  adopted  curriculum,  parental  communication,  teacher
 18    effectiveness  as evidenced by student progress based on criteria agreed to by
 19    school board trustees, administrators and teachers, and  professional  conduct
 20    as  outlined in the code of ethics of the Idaho teaching profession adopted by
 21    the professional standards commission and the state board of education.
 22        (2)  Each school district shall have a support  program  for  certificated
 23    employees  who are experiencing their first three (3) years with the district,
 24    under a category 1, 2 or 3 contract, providing support in the areas of: admin-
 25    istrative and supervisory support, mentoring, peer assistance and professional
 26    development. In developing support programs, nothing shall  prevent  districts
 27    from  joining  together to formulate a joint program applicable to each member
 28    district. Programs shall be submitted for approval to the state department  of
 29    education  in  accordance  with  procedures established by the department. The
 30    state department of education is hereby authorized and directed to:
 31        (a)  Formulate basic guidelines which districts shall use as a  model  for
 32        developing district programs;
 33        (b)  Approve school district support programs; and
 34        (c)  Establish  procedures  for districts to submit programs for approval,
 35        to provide for periodic review of previously  approved  programs,  and  to
 36        allow districts to amend previously approved programs.
 37        (3)  There  shall be three (3) categories of annual contracts available to
 38    local school districts under which to employ certificated personnel:
 39        (a)  A category 1 contract is a limited one-year contract as  provided  in
 40        section 33-514A, Idaho Code.
 41        (b)  A  category 2 contract is for certificated personnel in the first and
 42        second years of continuous employment with the same school district. While
 43        employed under a category 2 contract, the employee shall be  provided  the
                                                                        
                                           2
                                                                        
  1        services  of  the district support program referenced in subsection (2) of
  2        this section. Upon the decision by a local school board  not  to  reemploy
  3        the person for the following year, the certificated employee shall be pro-
  4        vided a written statement of reasons for non-reemployment by no later than
  5        May  25.  No  property  rights  shall  attach to a category 2 contract and
  6        therefore the employee shall not be entitled to  a  review  by  the  local
  7        board of the reasons or decision not to reemploy.
  8        (c)  A  category 3 contract is for certificated personnel during the third
  9        year of continuous employment by the same school district. District proce-
 10        dures shall require at least one (1) evaluation prior to the beginning  of
 11        the second semester of the school year and the results of any such evalua-
 12        tion  shall  be made a matter of record in the employee's personnel  file.
 13        When any such employee's work is found  to  be  unsatisfactory  a  defined
 14        period  of  probation  shall  be  established by the board, but in no case
 15        shall a probationary period be less than eight (8) weeks. After the proba-
 16        tionary period, action shall be taken by  the  board  as  to  whether  the
 17        employee is to be retained, immediately discharged, discharged upon termi-
 18        nation  of  the  current contract or reemployed at the end of the contract
 19        term under a continued probationary status. Notwithstanding the provisions
 20        of sections 67-2344 and 67-2345, Idaho Code, a decision to place  certifi-
 21        cated  personnel  on  probationary status may be made in executive session
 22        and the  employee shall not be named in the  minutes  of  the  meeting.  A
 23        record  of  the decision shall be placed in the employee's personnel file.
 24        This procedure shall not preclude recognition of unsatisfactory work at  a
 25        subsequent evaluation and the establishment of a reasonable period of pro-
 26        bation.  In  all instances, the employee shall be duly notified in writing
 27        of the areas of work which are deficient, including the conditions of pro-
 28        bation. Each such certificated employee on a category 3 contract shall  be
 29        given  notice,  in  writing,  whether he or she will be reemployed for the
 30        next ensuing year. Such notice shall be given by the board of trustees  no
 31        later  than the twenty-fifth day of May of each such year. If the board of
 32        trustees has decided not to reemploy the certificated employee,  then  the
 33        notice  must  contain  a  statement  of  reasons for such decision and the
 34        employee shall, upon request, be given the  opportunity  for  an  informal
 35        review  of  such  decision  by the board of trustees. The parameters of an
 36        informal review shall be determined by the local board.
 37        (4)  School districts hiring an employee who has been  on  renewable  con-
 38    tract  status with another Idaho district or has out-of-state experience which
 39    would otherwise qualify the certificated employee for renewable contract  sta-
 40    tus  in  Idaho,  shall have the option to immediately grant renewable contract
 41    status, or to place the employee on a category 3 annual contract. Such employ-
 42    ment on a category 3 contract under the provisions of this subsection  may  be
 43    for one (1), two (2) or three (3) years.
 44        (5)  There  shall  be  a minimum of two (2) written evaluations in each of
 45    the annual contract years of employment, and at least one (1) evaluation shall
 46    be completed before January 1 of each year. The provisions of this  subsection
 47    (5) shall not apply to employees on a category 1 contract.
                                                                        
 48        SECTION  2.  That  Section  33-515, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 49    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 50        33-515.  ISSUANCE OF RENEWABLE CONTRACTS. During the third  full  year  of
 51    continuous  employment  by  the  same school district, including any specially
 52    chartered district, each certificated employee named in subsection 16. of sec-
 53    tion 33-1001, Idaho Code, and each school nurse and school librarian shall  be
                                                                        
                                           3
                                                                        
  1    evaluated  for a renewable contract and shall, upon having been offered a con-
  2    tract for the next ensuing year, having given notice of acceptance of  renewal
  3    and  upon  signing a contract for a fourth full year, be placed on a renewable
  4    contract status with said school district subject to the  provisions  included
  5    in this chapter.
  6        After  the  third  full year of employment and at least once annually, the
  7    performance of each  such  certificated  employee,  school  nurse,  or  school
  8    librarian  shall be evaluated according to criteria and procedures established
  9    by the board of trustees in accordance with general guidelines approved by the
 10    state board of education. Evaluation criteria for general  classroom  teachers
 11    and  principals  shall  include,  but is not limited to, classroom management,
 12    adherence to district  adopted  curriculum,  parental  communication,  teacher
 13    effectiveness  as evidenced by student progress based on criteria agreed to by
 14    school board trustees, administrators and teachers, and  professional  conduct
 15    as  outlined in the code of ethics of the Idaho teaching profession adopted by
 16    the professional standards commission and the state board of education. Except
 17    as otherwise provided, that person shall have the right to  automatic  renewal
 18    of  contract  by  giving  notice,  in  writing, of acceptance of renewal. Such
 19    notice shall be given to the board of trustees of  the  school  district  then
 20    employing such person not later than the first day of June preceding the expi-
 21    ration  of  the  term of the current contract. Except as otherwise provided by
 22    this paragraph, the board of trustees shall notify each person entitled to  be
 23    employed on a renewable contract of the requirement that such person must give
 24    the  notice  hereinabove  and  that failure to do so may be interpreted by the
 25    board as a declination of the right to  automatic  renewal  or  the  offer  of
 26    another  contract. Such notification shall be made, in writing, not later than
 27    the fifteenth day of May, in each year, except to those persons  to  whom  the
 28    board,  prior  to  said date, has sent proposed contracts for the next ensuing
 29    year, or to whom the board has given the notice required by this section.
 30        Any contract automatically renewed under the provisions  of  this  section
 31    shall be for the same length as the term stated in the current contract and at
 32    a  salary  no  lower than that specified therein, to which shall be added such
 33    increments as may be determined by the statutory or regulatory rights of  such
 34    employee by reason of training, service, or performance.
 35        Nothing herein shall prevent the board of trustees from offering a renewed
 36    contract increasing the salary of any certificated person, or from reassigning
 37    an  administrative  employee  to a nonadministrative position with appropriate
 38    reduction of salary from the preexisting salary level. In the event the  board
 39    of  trustees reassigns an administrative employee to a nonadministrative posi-
 40    tion, the board shall give written notice to the  employee  which  contains  a
 41    statement  of  the  reasons  for  the reassignment. The employee, upon written
 42    request to the board, shall be entitled to an informal review  of  that  deci-
 43    sion. The process and procedure for the informal review shall be determined by
 44    the local board of trustees.
 45        Before  a  board  of trustees can determine not to renew for reasons of an
 46    unsatisfactory report of the performance of any certificated person whose con-
 47    tract would otherwise be automatically renewed, or to renew  the  contract  of
 48    any  such  person at a reduced salary, such person shall be entitled to a rea-
 49    sonable period of probation. This period of probation shall be preceded  by  a
 50    written  notice  from the board of trustees with reasons for such probationary
 51    period and with provisions for adequate  supervision  and  evaluation  of  the
 52    person's  performance during the probationary period. Such period of probation
 53    shall not affect the person's renewable contract status. Consideration of pro-
 54    bationary status for certificated personnel is consideration of the status  of
 55    an employee within the meaning of section 67-2345, Idaho Code, and may be held
                                                                        
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  1    in executive session. If the consideration results in probationary status, the
  2    individual  on  probation  shall not be named in the minutes of the meeting. A
  3    record of the decision shall be placed in the teacher's personnel file.
  4        If the board of trustees takes action to  immediately  discharge  or  dis-
  5    charge  upon  termination  of the current contract a certificated person whose
  6    contract would otherwise be automatically renewed, or to renew the contract of
  7    any such person at a reduced salary, the action of the board shall be  consis-
  8    tent  with the procedures specified in section 33-513(5), Idaho Code, and fur-
  9    thermore, the board shall notify the employee in writing whether there is just
 10    and reasonable cause not to renew the contract or to reduce the salary of  the
 11    affected  employee,  and if so, what reasons it relied upon in that determina-
 12    tion.
 13        If the board of trustees, for reasons other than  unsatisfactory  service,
 14    for    the  ensuing contract year, determines to change the length of the term
 15    stated in the current contract, reduce the salary or not renew the contract of
 16    a certificated person whose contract would otherwise be automatically renewed,
 17    nothing herein shall require a probationary period.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                      STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                                
                               RS 10879

Currently, Idaho Code concerning the supervision of
renewable contract and the supervision of annual contract
teachers provides little direction to the local Board of
Trustees, except to say it shall be done. Consequently, nearly
all supervision and evaluation procedures are of a general input
nature rather than based on output or on what value did the
efforts of the teacher produce.
This legislation gives more specific direction to the local
Board of Trustees as to what must be included in the evaluation
of teachers. It directs attention to significant elements of
teacher success: Does the teacher properly manage the classroom?
Does the teacher adhere to the curriculum? Does the teacher
produce growth in students? This legislation does not limit
trustees in any way from adding additional elements to the
supervision and evaluation process.

                           FISCAL IMPACT

None.


Contact
      Name:  Senator Darrel Deide
      Phone: 332 1345




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