Bill Text: MI HB5105 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education: teachers; ratings related to performance evaluations for teachers; modify. Amends secs. 2a & 3b, art. II & sec. 3, art. III of 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4 (MCL 38.82a et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5104'21
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-24 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/23/2021 [HB5105 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5105-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5105
A bill to amend 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, entitled
"An act relative to continuing tenure of office of certificated teachers in public educational institutions; to provide for probationary periods; to regulate discharges or demotions; to provide for resignations and leaves of absence; to create a state tenure commission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof; and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this act,"
by amending sections 2a and 3b of article II and section 3 of article III (MCL 38.82a, 38.83b, and 38.93), sections 2a and 3b of article II as added and section 3 of article III as amended by 2011 PA 101.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
ARTICLE II
Sec. 2a. A probationary teacher who is rated as effective or highly effective on his or her most recent annual year-end performance evaluation under section 1249 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1249, is not subject to being displaced by a teacher on continuing tenure solely because the other teacher has continuing tenure.
Sec. 3b. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a teacher shall is not be considered to have successfully completed the probationary period unless the teacher has been rated as effective or highly effective on his or her 3 most recent annual year-end performance evaluations under section 1249 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1249, and has completed at least 5 full school years of employment in a probationary period.
(2) If a teacher has been rated as highly effective on 3 consecutive annual year-end performance evaluations under section 1249 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1249, and has completed at least 4 full school years of employment in a probationary period, the teacher shall be is considered to have successfully completed the probationary period.
ARTICLE III
Sec. 3. The controlling board of the school district employing a teacher on continuing tenure shall ensure that the teacher is provided with an annual a year-end performance evaluation in accordance with section 1249 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1249. If the teacher has received a needing-support rating of ineffective or minimally effective on an annual a year-end performance evaluation, the school district shall provide the teacher with an individualized development plan developed by appropriate administrative personnel in consultation with the individual teacher. The individualized development plan shall must require the teacher to make progress toward individual development goals within a specified time period, not to exceed 180 days. The annual year-end performance evaluation shall must be based on multiple classroom observations conducted during the period covered by the evaluation and shall must include, in addition to the factors required under section 1249 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1249, at least an assessment of the teacher's progress in meeting the goals of his or her individualized development plan. The controlling board shall determine the format and number of the classroom observations in consultation with teachers and school administrators.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5104 (request no. 00651'21) of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.
