Bill Text: NJ A5077 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

New Jersey Assembly Bill 5077

Bill Title: Extends statutory pause on collection of student growth objective data.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-12-19 - Passed by the Assembly (61-2-8) [A5077 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A5077-Amended.html

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5077

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 9, 2024

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman CARMEN THERESA MORALES

District 34 (Essex)

Assemblywoman ROSAURA "ROSY" BAGOLIE

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

Extends statutory pause on collection of student growth objective data.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

As reported by the Assembly Education Committee on December 12, 2024, with amendments.

An Act concerning educator evaluations and amending P.L.2024, c.14.

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Section 5 of P.L.2024, c.14 (C.18A:6-123.1) is amended to read as follows:

5. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 17 of P.L.2012, c.26 (C.18A:6-123) or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, in the 2024-2025 school year and each school year thereafter until the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10, teachers ¹, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals¹ shall not collect new student growth objective data ¹or administrator goals data¹. For the purposes of conducting evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice principals in the 2024-2025 school year and in each school year thereafter until the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10, existing student growth objective data from the most recent year in which the educator completed student growth objectives ¹or existing administrator goals data for the most recent year in which the educator completed administrator goals¹ shall be used. For any teacher ¹, principal, assistant principal, or vice-principal¹ in their first year of employment in a district¹[,] ;¹ any teacher ¹, principal, assistant principal, or vice-principal¹ without a record of pre-existing student growth objectives ¹[,] or administrator goals;¹ or any non-tenured teacher ¹, principal, assistant principal, or vice-principal¹, the ¹[teacher] educator¹ shall be required to set student growth objectives ¹or administrator goals, as appropriate,¹ and collect data pertaining to these objectives ¹or goals¹ during the 2024-2025 school year and each school year thereafter until the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10.

b. Beginning [with the 2025-2026 school year] in the first full school year following the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10, school districts shall implement guidelines for the collection of student growth objective data ¹and administrator goals data¹consistent with any law, rule, or regulation enacted as a result of the findings of the New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force established pursuant to P.L.2024, c.14 (C.18A:6-123.1 et al.).

c. A teacher ¹, principal, assistant principal, or vice-principal¹ who is not ¹[satisfied with an evaluation score from the last year in which the] required to complete annual¹ student growth objectives ¹[were collected may formally request a reexamination of the evaluation and the issuance of a new evaluation score] or administrator goals pursuant to subsection a. of this section may complete new student growth objectives or administrator goals for one year. The scores from the new student growth objectives or administrator goals will be applied to the educator's summative evaluation for that school year and all subsequent school years until the next expiration and readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10, unless the educator requests the opportunity to complete new student growth objectives or administrator goals in a subsequent school year. A teacher, principal, assistant principal, or vice-principal shall notify their supervisor and the school principal in writing on or before September 30 of the year in which the new student growth objectives or administrator goals are to be completed¹.