Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1336
       
       
       
       By Senator Thompson
       
       
       
       
       12-01484-13                                           20131336__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to school personnel performance
    3         evaluation; amending s. 1012.34, F.S.; revising
    4         provisions relating to the measurement of student
    5         learning growth for purposes of evaluating classroom
    6         and nonclassroom instructional personnel; prohibiting
    7         an employee from being penalized for unsatisfactory
    8         performance based on certain student learning growth
    9         data; providing an effective date.
   10  
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (7) of
   14  section 1012.34, Florida Statutes, and subsection (8) of that
   15  section is amended, to read:
   16         1012.34 Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria.—
   17         (7) MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING GROWTH.—
   18         (f) A classroom teacher shall be assigned a student
   19  learning growth score based on valid and reliable statewide
   20  assessments only for the students and subjects taught by the
   21  teacher during the school year. Classroom teachers who teach
   22  students or subjects not assessed by statewide assessments and
   23  instructional personnel who are not classroom teachers may not
   24  be assigned a student learning growth score based on students or
   25  subjects that they did not teach.
   26         (8) RULEMAKING.—The State Board of Education shall adopt
   27  rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 which establish
   28  uniform procedures for the submission, review, and approval of
   29  district evaluation systems and reporting requirements for the
   30  annual evaluation of instructional personnel and school
   31  administrators; specific, discrete standards for each
   32  performance level required under subsection (2) to ensure clear
   33  and sufficient differentiation in the performance levels and to
   34  provide consistency in meaning across school districts; the
   35  measurement of student learning growth and associated
   36  implementation procedures required under subsection (7); a
   37  process to permit instructional personnel to review the class
   38  roster for accuracy and to correct any mistakes relating to the
   39  identity of students for whom the individual is responsible; and
   40  a process for monitoring school district implementation of
   41  evaluation systems in accordance with this section.
   42  Specifically, the rules shall establish a student learning
   43  growth standard that if not met will result in the employee
   44  receiving an unsatisfactory performance evaluation rating,
   45  except that an employee may not be penalized for unsatisfactory
   46  performance if the student learning growth portion of the
   47  evaluation is assigned based on students or subjects that the
   48  employee did not teach. Similarly, an employee’s 3 years of
   49  student learning growth data may not be used to penalize the
   50  employee if any of the data is based on students or subjects
   51  that the employee did not teach. In like manner, the rules shall
   52  establish a student learning growth standard that must be met in
   53  order for an employee to receive a highly effective rating and a
   54  student learning growth standard that must be met in order for
   55  an employee to receive an effective rating.
   56         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.