Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 980
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/05/2013           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Legg) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in
    6  ss. 1012.22 and 1012.34, Florida Statutes, regarding the
    7  performance salary schedule and personnel evaluation procedures
    8  and criteria:
    9         (1) At least 50 percent of a classroom teacher’s or school
   10  administrator’s performance evaluation, or 40 percent if less
   11  than 3 years of student performance data are available, shall be
   12  based upon learning growth or achievement of the teacher’s
   13  students or, for a school administrator, the students attending
   14  that school; the remaining portion shall be based upon factors
   15  identified in district-determined, state-approved evaluation
   16  system plans. Student achievement measures for courses
   17  associated with statewide assessments may be used only if a
   18  statewide growth formula has not been approved for that
   19  assessment or, for courses associated with school district
   20  assessments, if achievement is demonstrated to be a more
   21  appropriate measure of teacher performance.
   22         (2) The student performance data used in the performance
   23  evaluation of nonclassroom instructional personnel shall be
   24  based on student outcome data that reflects the actual
   25  contribution of such personnel to the performance of the
   26  students assigned to the individual in the individual’s areas of
   27  responsibility.
   28         (3) For purposes of the performance salary schedule in s.
   29  1012.22, Florida Statutes, the student assessment data in the
   30  performance evaluation must be from statewide assessments or
   31  district-determined assessments as required in s. 1008.22(8),
   32  Florida Statutes, in the subject areas taught.
   33         Section 2. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (8) of
   34  section 1008.22, Florida Statutes, to read:
   35         1008.22 Student assessment program for public schools.—
   36         (8) LOCAL ASSESSMENTS.—
   37         (d) Each school district shall establish schedules for the
   38  administration of any district-mandated assessment and approve
   39  the schedules as an agenda item at a district school board
   40  meeting. The school district shall publish the testing schedules
   41  on its website, clearly specifying the district-mandated
   42  assessments, and report the schedules to the Department of
   43  Education by October 1 of each year.
   44         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
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   46  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   47         And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   49  and insert:
   50                        A bill to be entitled                      
   51         An act relating to education; providing requirements
   52         for measuring student performance in instructional
   53         personnel and school administrator performance
   54         evaluations; providing requirements for the
   55         performance evaluation of personnel for purposes of
   56         the performance salary schedule; amending s. 1008.22,
   57         F.S.; requiring each school district to establish and
   58         approve testing schedules for district-mandated
   59         assessments and publish the schedules on its website;
   60         requiring reporting of the schedules to the Department
   61         of Education; providing an effective date.