Bill Text: MI SB1509 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; teachers; teacher performance evaluation system; modify implementation requirements. Amends sec. 1249 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1249).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-29 - Assigned Pa 0336'10 With Immediate Effect [SB1509 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB1509-Chaptered.html
Act No. 336
Public Acts of 2010
Approved by the Governor
December 21, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 21, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 21, 2010
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Senator Kuipers
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1509
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1249 (MCL 380.1249), as added by 2009 PA 205.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1249. (1) Not later than September 1, 2011, and 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) A school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall continue to conduct the evaluations for school principals that are currently required by the department through the 2010-2011 school year. At the end of the 2010-2011 school year, a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall report the most recently completed or determined “effectiveness label” from that evaluation for each principal who is in place for 2010‑2011, in a form and manner prescribed by the department.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
