Bill Text: FL S1774 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Instructional Personnel in Public Schools

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Education Pre-K - 12 [S1774 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-S1774-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2012                                    SB 1774
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-01428-12                                           20121774__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to instructional personnel in public
    3         schools; amending s. 1012.34, F.S.; providing that a
    4         teacher who is rated as effective or highly effective
    5         may retain his or her rating for 3 years upon
    6         volunteering at or transferring to a high-need or low
    7         performing school; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Present subsection (8) of section 1012.34,
   12  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (9), and a new
   13  subsection (8) is added to that section, to read:
   14         1012.34 Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria.—
   15         (8) PERFORMANCE RATING RETENTION.—A teacher who is rated as
   16  effective or highly effective and who volunteers at a high-need
   17  or low-performing school or who is transferred to a high-need or
   18  low-performing school may retain his or her rating for 3 years
   19  upon volunteering at or transferring to the high-need or low
   20  performing school.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.