Bill Text: MI SB0775 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; teachers; certain provisions regarding teacher performance evaluations during a probationary period; modify. Amends secs. 2a & 3b, art. II of 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4 (MCL 38.82a & 38.83b). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0774'18

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-25 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0775 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0775-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 775

 

 

January 25, 2018, Introduced by Senators HOPGOOD, GREGORY, BIEDA, HOOD, YOUNG, ANANICH, HERTEL, KNEZEK, WARREN and JOHNSON and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

     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 (MCL 38.82a and

 

38.83b), as added 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

 

A teacher shall 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 considered to have

 

successfully completed the probationary period.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 774                                     

 

          of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.