Bill Text: IN HB1134 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Teacher performance evaluations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-02-16 - Senator Sipes added as cosponsor [HB1134 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2010-HB1134-Amended.html

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January 29, 2010

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HOUSE BILL No. 1134

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DIGEST OF HB 1134 (Updated January 28, 2010 8:56 am - DI 109)

Citations Affected: IC 20-28.

Synopsis: Teacher performance evaluations. Prohibits the use of test scores as a sole factor to determine teacher employment decisions.

Effective: July 1, 2010.

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Porter

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    January 7, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
    January 28, 2010, amended, reported _ Do Pass.

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January 29, 2010

Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1134

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 20-28-11-3; (10)HB1134.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 20-28-11-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.182-2009(ss), SECTION 514, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 3. (a) Each plan:
        (1) must provide for the improvement of the performance of the individuals evaluated;
        (2) must provide for the growth and development of the individuals evaluated;
        (3) must require periodic assessment of the effectiveness of the plan;
        (4) must provide that nonpermanent and semipermanent teachers receive:
            (A) an evaluation on or before December 31 each year; and
            (B) if requested by that teacher, an additional evaluation on or before March 1 of the following year;
        (5) may provide a basis for making employment decisions; and
        (6) if federal rules, regulations, or directives require the use of collective program results of tests to evaluate educators in order

to qualify for those federal funds, collective program results of tests used by any school corporation that would receive federal funds may be used as a factor, but not the sole factor, to evaluate educators. If collective testing results are used as a factor in evaluations by a school corporation, they must be applied to all educators in that school corporation.
Except as provided in subdivision (6), the plan may not provide for an evaluation that is based in whole or in part on the ISTEP program test scores of the students in the school corporation.
     (b) If subsection (a)(6) applies:
        (1) the collective testing results may not be used as a sole factor to make assignment or employment decisions regarding teachers;
        (2) each test used must be determined to be valid and reliable according to accepted psychometric standards for the purpose that a test is used; and
        (3) a testing contractor must certify that a test is valid and reliable for the purpose for which it is used.