Bill Text: MN HF2283 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Teachers; advisory task force on better aligning Minnesota's alternative teacher professional pay system and teacher evaluation program established.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-03 - Author added Slocum [HF2283 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF2283-Introduced.html
1.2relating to education; establishing an advisory task force on better aligning
1.3Minnesota's alternative teacher professional pay system and teacher evaluation
1.4program.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. ADVISORY TASK FORCE; BETTER ALIGNING MINNESOTA'S
1.7ALTERNATIVE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL PAY SYSTEM AND TEACHER
1.8EVALUATION PROGRAM.
1.9(a) An advisory task force on better aligning Minnesota's alternative teacher
1.10professional pay system under Minnesota Statutes, sections 122A.413 to 122A.416, and
1.11Minnesota's teacher evaluation program under Minnesota Statutes, sections 122A.40,
1.12subdivision 8, and 122A.41, subdivision 5, is established to make recommendations to the
1.13education policy and finance committees of the legislature and the education commissioner
1.14on effecting and funding an improved alignment of this system and program.
1.15(b) The advisory task force shall include the following members appointed by their
1.16respective organizations:
1.17(1) one school superintendent appointed by the Minnesota Association of School
1.18Administrators;
1.19(2) one secondary school principal appointed by the Minnesota Association of
1.20Secondary School Principals;
1.21(3) one elementary school principal appointed by the Minnesota Elementary School
1.22Principals' Association;
1.23(4) one school board member appointed by the Minnesota School Boards Association;
2.1(5) two Department of Education staff members appointed by the commissioner
2.2of education;
2.3(6) one research faculty member appointed by the dean of the College of Education
2.4and Human Development at the University of Minnesota and one faculty member
2.5representing the Minnesota Association of the Colleges for Teacher Education appointed
2.6by the Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education;
2.7(7) one licensed elementary school teacher and one licensed secondary school
2.8teacher employed in school districts with an alternative teacher professional pay system
2.9agreement and one licensed elementary school teacher and one licensed secondary school
2.10teacher employed in school districts without an alternative teacher professional pay
2.11system agreement, where one or more of these teachers may be a master teacher, peer
2.12evaluator, in another teacher leader position, or national board certified teacher, appointed
2.13by Education Minnesota;
2.14(8) one teacher or school administrator employed in a Minnesota charter school
2.15with an alternative teacher professional pay system agreement and one teacher or school
2.16administrator employed in a Minnesota charter school without an alternative teacher
2.17professional pay system agreement appointed by the Minnesota Association of Charter
2.18Schools;
2.19(9) one parent or guardian of a student currently enrolled in a Minnesota public
2.20school appointed by Parents United for Public Schools;
2.21(10) one teacher employed in a Minnesota school district with an alternative teacher
2.22professional pay system agreement, who may be a master teacher, peer evaluator, in
2.23another teacher leader position, or national board certified teacher, appointed by the
2.24Association of Metropolitan School Districts; and
2.25(11) one teacher employed in a Minnesota school district with an alternative
2.26professional pay system agreement, who may be a master teacher, peer evaluator, in
2.27another teacher leader position, or national board certified teacher, appointed by the
2.28Minnesota Rural Education Association.
2.29The following individuals shall serve as ex officio advisory task force members: two current
2.30members of the Minnesota house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house,
2.31with one from each political party, and where one house member is from the seven-county
2.32metropolitan area and one house member is from greater Minnesota; and two current
2.33members of the Minnesota senate appointed by the senate Subcommittee on Committees of
2.34the Committee on Rules and Administration, with one from each political party, and where
2.35one senate member is from the seven-county metropolitan area and one senate member is
3.1from greater Minnesota. Task force members may identify other ex officio representatives
3.2of other education organizations and stakeholders to also serve on the advisory task force.
3.3(c) The commissioner of education shall convene the first meeting of the task
3.4force by August 1, 2014. Task force members shall elect two members to serve as the
3.5task force cochairs, one of whom must be a teacher-member of the task force. The task
3.6force must meet at least monthly. Task force members' terms and other task force matters
3.7are subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 15.059. The commissioner may reimburse
3.8task force members from the Department of Education's current operating budget but
3.9may not compensate task force members for task force activities. Task force members
3.10are encouraged to seek input from individuals, representatives of organizations, and other
3.11education stakeholders whose expertise can help inform the work of the task force.
3.12(d) Task force members, by February 1, 2015, must submit to the education policy
3.13and finance committees of the legislature and the education commissioner their written
3.14recommendations on better aligning and financing the alternative teacher professional pay
3.15system and teacher evaluation program.
3.16(e) The commissioner shall provide assistance to the task force upon members'
3.17request.
3.18(f) The advisory task force expires on February 2, 2015, or the day after the task
3.19force members submit their report under paragraph (d), whichever comes first.
3.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3Minnesota's alternative teacher professional pay system and teacher evaluation
1.4program.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. ADVISORY TASK FORCE; BETTER ALIGNING MINNESOTA'S
1.7ALTERNATIVE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL PAY SYSTEM AND TEACHER
1.8EVALUATION PROGRAM.
1.9(a) An advisory task force on better aligning Minnesota's alternative teacher
1.10professional pay system under Minnesota Statutes, sections 122A.413 to 122A.416, and
1.11Minnesota's teacher evaluation program under Minnesota Statutes, sections 122A.40,
1.12subdivision 8, and 122A.41, subdivision 5, is established to make recommendations to the
1.13education policy and finance committees of the legislature and the education commissioner
1.14on effecting and funding an improved alignment of this system and program.
1.15(b) The advisory task force shall include the following members appointed by their
1.16respective organizations:
1.17(1) one school superintendent appointed by the Minnesota Association of School
1.18Administrators;
1.19(2) one secondary school principal appointed by the Minnesota Association of
1.20Secondary School Principals;
1.21(3) one elementary school principal appointed by the Minnesota Elementary School
1.22Principals' Association;
1.23(4) one school board member appointed by the Minnesota School Boards Association;
2.1(5) two Department of Education staff members appointed by the commissioner
2.2of education;
2.3(6) one research faculty member appointed by the dean of the College of Education
2.4and Human Development at the University of Minnesota and one faculty member
2.5representing the Minnesota Association of the Colleges for Teacher Education appointed
2.6by the Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education;
2.7(7) one licensed elementary school teacher and one licensed secondary school
2.8teacher employed in school districts with an alternative teacher professional pay system
2.9agreement and one licensed elementary school teacher and one licensed secondary school
2.10teacher employed in school districts without an alternative teacher professional pay
2.11system agreement, where one or more of these teachers may be a master teacher, peer
2.12evaluator, in another teacher leader position, or national board certified teacher, appointed
2.13by Education Minnesota;
2.14(8) one teacher or school administrator employed in a Minnesota charter school
2.15with an alternative teacher professional pay system agreement and one teacher or school
2.16administrator employed in a Minnesota charter school without an alternative teacher
2.17professional pay system agreement appointed by the Minnesota Association of Charter
2.18Schools;
2.19(9) one parent or guardian of a student currently enrolled in a Minnesota public
2.20school appointed by Parents United for Public Schools;
2.21(10) one teacher employed in a Minnesota school district with an alternative teacher
2.22professional pay system agreement, who may be a master teacher, peer evaluator, in
2.23another teacher leader position, or national board certified teacher, appointed by the
2.24Association of Metropolitan School Districts; and
2.25(11) one teacher employed in a Minnesota school district with an alternative
2.26professional pay system agreement, who may be a master teacher, peer evaluator, in
2.27another teacher leader position, or national board certified teacher, appointed by the
2.28Minnesota Rural Education Association.
2.29The following individuals shall serve as ex officio advisory task force members: two current
2.30members of the Minnesota house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house,
2.31with one from each political party, and where one house member is from the seven-county
2.32metropolitan area and one house member is from greater Minnesota; and two current
2.33members of the Minnesota senate appointed by the senate Subcommittee on Committees of
2.34the Committee on Rules and Administration, with one from each political party, and where
2.35one senate member is from the seven-county metropolitan area and one senate member is
3.1from greater Minnesota. Task force members may identify other ex officio representatives
3.2of other education organizations and stakeholders to also serve on the advisory task force.
3.3(c) The commissioner of education shall convene the first meeting of the task
3.4force by August 1, 2014. Task force members shall elect two members to serve as the
3.5task force cochairs, one of whom must be a teacher-member of the task force. The task
3.6force must meet at least monthly. Task force members' terms and other task force matters
3.7are subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 15.059. The commissioner may reimburse
3.8task force members from the Department of Education's current operating budget but
3.9may not compensate task force members for task force activities. Task force members
3.10are encouraged to seek input from individuals, representatives of organizations, and other
3.11education stakeholders whose expertise can help inform the work of the task force.
3.12(d) Task force members, by February 1, 2015, must submit to the education policy
3.13and finance committees of the legislature and the education commissioner their written
3.14recommendations on better aligning and financing the alternative teacher professional pay
3.15system and teacher evaluation program.
3.16(e) The commissioner shall provide assistance to the task force upon members'
3.17request.
3.18(f) The advisory task force expires on February 2, 2015, or the day after the task
3.19force members submit their report under paragraph (d), whichever comes first.
3.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
