Bill Text: OR SB333 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to public school teachers; appropriating money; declaring an emergency.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB333 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB333-Engrossed.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
 { +  braces and plus signs + } .

LC 1642

                           A-Engrossed

                         Senate Bill 333
                 Ordered by the Senate April 22
           Including Senate Amendments dated April 22

Sponsored by Senator HASS; Representative READ (Presession
  filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure.

    { - Establishes Oregon Teacher Effectiveness and Career
Enhancement Initiative Program within Department of
Education. Describes application process and other requirements
of program. - }
   { +  Creates Educator Preparation Improvement Fund.
Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Teacher Standards and
Practices Commission for encouraging certain teacher education
programs and school district partnerships.
  Directs Department of Education to create comprehensive
leadership development system for licensed teachers. Specifies
components of system.
  Specifies that commission may disburse Professional
Organizations Certification Fund moneys to teachers for purpose
related to certification through National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards.
  Requires commission and department to propose guidelines to
adopt uniform set of model core teaching standards that align
with updated national standards and to prepare plan to encourage
national board certification for teachers. Sunsets March 2,
2013. + }
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to public school teachers; creating new provisions;
  amending ORS 342.120, 342.122 and 342.200; appropriating money;
  and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + Sections 2 and 3 of this 2011 Act are added to
and made a part of ORS chapter 342. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + (1) There is created the Educator Preparation
Improvement Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund.
Interest earned on moneys in the Educator Preparation Improvement
Fund shall be credited to the fund.
  (2) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission may accept
from any source any grant, donation or gift of money or other
valuable thing made to the commission for purposes of the
Educator Preparation Improvement Fund.
  (3) Moneys credited to the Educator Preparation Improvement
Fund are continuously appropriated to the commission for the
purposes set forth in subsection (4) of this section. The
commission may draw checks or orders upon the State Treasurer in
making disbursements from the Educator Preparation Improvement
Fund for the purposes set forth in subsection (4) of this
section.
  (4) The purpose of the Educator Preparation Improvement Fund is
to encourage approved teacher education programs and school
district partnerships that:
  (a) Respond to changes in the education of students in
preprimary programs and grades 1 through 12;
  (b) Encourage collaboration around delivery models that provide
effective professional preparation;
  (c) Recognize the needs of students in this state, including
but not limited to recruiting underrepresented persons to teach
in high needs areas such as special education, mathematics,
science and teaching English to speakers of other languages;
  (d) Encourage collaborative initiatives that improve student
success and postsecondary access and achievement; and
  (e) Respond to the need for national accreditation of approved
teacher education programs in this state. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + (1) The Department of Education, in partnership
with the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, shall create
a comprehensive leadership development system for licensed
teachers.
  (2) The comprehensive leadership development system must
include:
  (a) A cost-effective plan that requires the coordination of
public and private organizations and resources to:
  (A) Improve the success of this state's highest needs students;
  (B) Provide research and technical assistance to schools
seeking to adopt or enhance evidence-based leadership practices
for teachers;
  (C) Recruit underrepresented persons into teacher leadership;
and
  (D) Strengthen the capacity of teachers to improve education in
public schools in this state;
  (b) A plan for collaboration and continuous improvement among
teacher preparation programs approved by the Teacher Standards
and Practices Commission to support performance-based assessments
for teachers and candidates for teacher licensure;
  (c) A plan for recruitment of underrepresented persons into
teacher leadership programs;
  (d) The improvement of access to high quality preparation and
professional development for teachers working in rural school
districts;
  (e) A method for disseminating evidence-based practices to
support the development of effective teachers; and
  (f) A method for providing research and technical assistance to
school districts to encourage the placement of the most highly
effective teachers in the highest need schools. + }
  SECTION 4. ORS 342.120 is amended to read:
  342.120. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires
otherwise:
  (1) 'Administrator' includes all superintendents, assistant
superintendents and principals in the public schools or education
service districts.
  (2) 'Approved teacher education institution' is one which meets
the standards of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission
for preparation of teachers for preprimary programs and grades 1
through 12.
  (3) 'Approved teacher education program' is one offered by an
approved teacher education institution and is so recognized by
the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, after considering
recommendations of the State Board of Education.
  (4) 'Commission' means the Teacher Standards and Practices
Commission.
  (5) 'Educational assistant' means a classified school employee
who does not require a license to teach, who is employed by a
school district or education service district and whose
assignment consists of and is limited to assisting a licensed
teacher in accordance with rules established by the State Board
of Education.
  (6) 'Instruction' includes direction of learning in class, in
small groups, in individual situations, in the library and in
guidance and counseling, but does not include the provision of
related services, as defined in ORS 343.035, to a child
identified as a child with a disability pursuant to ORS 343.146
to 343.183 when provided in accordance with ORS 343.221.
  (7) 'Intern teacher' means a regularly enrolled student of an
approved teacher education institution who teaches under the
supervision of the staff of the institution and of the employing
school district in order to acquire practical experience in
teaching and for which the student receives both academic credit
from the institution and financial compensation from the school
district or education service district.
  (8) 'State board' means the State Board of Education.
  (9) 'Teacher' includes all licensed employees in the public
schools or employed by an education service district who have
direct responsibility for instruction, coordination of
educational programs or supervision or evaluation of teachers and
who are compensated for their services from public funds.
'Teacher' does not include a school nurse as defined in ORS
342.455.
  (10) 'Teaching license' means a license issued under ORS
342.125 or 342.144.
   { +  (11) 'Underrepresented person' means:
  (a) A person having origins in any of the black racial groups
of Africa, but who is not Hispanic;
  (b) A person of Hispanic culture or origin;
  (c) A person having origins in any of the original peoples of
the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent or the
Pacific Islands; or
  (d) An American Indian or Alaskan Native having origins in any
of the original peoples of North America. + }
  SECTION 5. ORS 342.122 is amended to read:
  342.122. (1) There is created the Professional Organizations
Certification Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund.
Interest earned on moneys in the Professional Organizations
Certification Fund shall be credited to the fund.
  (2) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission may accept
from any source any grant, donation or gift of money or other
valuable thing made to the commission for purposes of the
Professional Organizations { +   + }Certification Fund.
  (3) Moneys credited to the Professional Organizations
Certification Fund are continuously appropriated to the
commission for the purposes of   { - advanced certifications
of - }   { + assisting + } teachers and administrators  { + to
apply for and attain advanced certifications + } in accordance
with ORS 342.121 (2)  { - . - }  { + , including certification
through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or
any other national professional organization for teaching
standards designated by the commission.
  (4) + } The commission may draw checks or orders upon the State
Treasurer in making disbursements from the Professional
Organizations Certification Fund for the purposes stated in this
subsection.
   { +  (5) As provided by subsection (3) of this section, the
commission may disburse moneys from the Professional
Organizations Certification Fund to applicants who are teachers
for assistance with the direct costs of seeking and obtaining
national board certification. The commission shall disburse
moneys in a manner that provides support, but does not pay for
all the costs of any one application. Additionally, the
commission shall disburse moneys to provide continuous support to
as many applicants as possible.
  (6) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall adopt
rules that govern the disbursement of moneys from the
Professional Organizations Certification Fund consistent with
this section. + }
  SECTION 6. ORS 342.200 is amended to read:
  342.200.  { + (1) + } In order to allow the school districts of
the state to take full advantage of various professional skills
and disciplines not directly developed through teaching
experience or professional education for which teaching
experience is a prerequisite, it is the public policy of the
State of Oregon that the Teacher Standards and Practices
Commission, in establishing professional requirements and
experience under ORS 342.140, shall consider professional skills,
education and experience not directly related to, nor contingent
upon, teaching experience or training as a classroom teacher.
   { +  (2) The commission shall establish and prescribe the
requirements for an optional advanced leadership endorsement for
licensed public school teachers who engage in mentoring, provide
professional support for new teachers, provide outstanding
instructional leadership or otherwise contribute to demonstrated
school improvement. + }
  SECTION 7.  { + The Department of Education and the Teacher
Standards and Practices Commission shall submit a report on a
plan for implementation of the comprehensive leadership
development system created under section 3 of this 2011 Act to
the Legislative Assembly no later than March 1, 2013. The report
must include the projected costs of the system, the design of the
system and evidence of collaboration with and access to existing
resources, systems and programs. + }
  SECTION 8.  { + (1) As used in this section, 'Oregon Coalition
for Quality Teaching and Learning' means the collaborative group
of state, school district, educator, administrator, community and
higher education representatives operating as a unit organized
under the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
  (2) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and the
Department of Education, working with the Oregon Coalition for
Quality Teaching and Learning, shall propose guidelines to adopt
a uniform set of model core teaching standards for teaching
preparation, new teachers and experienced teachers that align
with updated national teaching standards. The guidelines must
allow the standards to be customized based on the collaborative
efforts of the teachers and administrators of the school district
and the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees of
the school district.
  (3) The guidelines must propose model core teaching standards
that:
  (a) Are research-based;
  (b) Distinguish different levels of proficiency; and
  (c) Include multiple measures of student growth and achievement
using student, school and school district data.
  (4) The commission and the department shall report to the
Legislative Assembly prior to January 1, 2012, on the proposed
guidelines for model core teaching standards.
  (5) The commission shall adopt and distribute the model core
teaching standards to school districts on or before March 1,
2012.
  (6) All school districts shall begin using the model core
teaching standards in annual evaluations of teachers beginning in
the 2012-2013 school year. + }
  SECTION 9.  { + (1) As used in this section, 'Oregon Coalition
for Quality Teaching and Learning' means the collaborative group
of state, school district, educator, administrator, community and
higher education representatives operating as a unit organized
under the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
  (2) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and the
Department of Education, working with the Oregon Coalition for
Quality Teaching and Learning, shall prepare a plan to encourage
national board certification for teachers.
  (3) The plan must address the costs of applying for
certification, providing preparation support for applicants and a
strategy for providing bonuses for nationally board certified
teachers.
  (4) Moneys from the Professional Organizations Certification
Fund may be used to prepare the plan. + }
  SECTION 10.  { + Sections 7, 8 and 9 of this 2011 Act are
repealed on March 2, 2013. + }
  SECTION 11.  { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect on
its passage. + }
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