September 23, 2010, Introduced by Senator KUIPERS and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1249 (MCL 380.1249), as added by 2009 PA 205.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1249. (1) With Subject
to subsection (2), with the
involvement of teachers and school administrators, the board of a
school district or intermediate school district or board of
directors of a public school academy shall adopt and implement for
all teachers and school administrators a rigorous, transparent, and
fair performance evaluation system that does all of the following:
(a) Evaluates the teacher's or school administrator's job
performance at least annually while providing timely and
constructive feedback.
(b) Establishes clear approaches to measuring student growth
and provides teachers and school administrators with relevant data
on student growth.
(c) Evaluates a teacher's or school administrator's job
performance, using multiple rating categories that take into
account data on student growth as a significant factor. For these
purposes, student growth shall be measured by national, state, or
local assessments and other objective criteria.
(d) Uses the evaluations, at a minimum, to inform decisions
regarding all of the following:
(i) The effectiveness of teachers and school administrators,
ensuring that they are given ample opportunities for improvement.
(ii) Promotion, retention, and development of teachers and
school administrators, including providing relevant coaching,
instruction support, or professional development.
(iii) Whether to grant tenure or full certification, or both, to
teachers and school administrators using rigorous standards and
streamlined, transparent, and fair procedures.
(iv) Removing ineffective tenured and untenured teachers and
school administrators after they have had ample opportunities to
improve, and ensuring that these decisions are made using rigorous
standards and streamlined, transparent, and fair procedures.
(2) If a collective bargaining agreement is in effect for
teachers or school administrators of a school district, public
school academy, or intermediate school district as of January 4,
2010, and if that collective bargaining agreement prevents
compliance with subsection (1), then subsection (1) does not apply
to that school district, public school academy, or intermediate
school district until after the expiration of that collective
bargaining agreement.
(3) The department shall work with organizations that
represent public school employees and management and that have
served members on a statewide basis for at least 10 years to
develop and make available to public schools 1 or more model
evaluation systems that meet the requirements of subsection (1).