H0097B1339A00790 AJB:CDM 04/18/17 #90 A00790
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 97
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE McCARTER
Printer's No. 1339
Amend Bill, page 1, line 5, by inserting after "thereto," "
in professional employees, further providing for rating system
and providing for evaluation of charter entity educators;
Amend Bill, page 1, lines 14 through 16, by striking out all
of said lines and inserting
Section 1. Section 1123(e), (i), (n) and (o)(2) of the act
of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School
Code of 1949, are amended to read:
Section 1123. Rating System.--* * *
(e) Notwithstanding subsections (b), (c) and (d),
professional employes and temporary professional employes
serving as classroom teachers, principals and nonteaching
professional employes may be evaluated through the use of a
rating tool developed by an individual school district,
intermediate unit [or], area vocational-technical school,
charter school or cyber charter school that the department has
approved as meeting or exceeding the measures of effectiveness
established under this section.
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(i) All school districts, intermediate units [and], area
vocational-technical schools, charter schools and cyber charter
schools shall provide to the department the aggregate results of
all professional employe and temporary professional employe,
principal and nonteaching professional employe evaluations.
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(n) The requirements of this section shall apply to all
school districts, intermediate units [and], area vocational-
technical schools, charter schools and cyber charter schools.
(o) For purposes of this section:
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(2) The term "chief school administrator" shall include
individuals who are employed as a school district
superintendent, an executive director of an intermediate unit
[or], a chief school administrator of an area vocational-
technical school or a chief executive officer of a charter
school or cyber charter school.
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Section 1.1. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 1123.1. Evaluation of Charter Entity Educators.--(a)
Beginning in the 2017-2018 school year, all educators teaching
in a charter school entity shall be evaluated using an approved
rating tool developed under section 1123.
(b) The Department of Education shall develop, issue and
publish in the Pennsylvania Bulletin a rating tool for educators
teaching in a charter school entity that is consistent with
section 1123 and includes the weights given to the multiple
measures of student performance contained in section 1123(b)(1)
(ii).
Section 1.2. Section 1525 of the act is amended to read:
Amend Bill, page 75, by inserting between lines 2 and 3
(1) The amendment or addition of sections 1123 and
1123.1 of the act shall take effect in 60 days.
Amend Bill, page 75, line 3, by striking out "(1)" and
inserting
(2)
Amend Bill, page 75, line 5, by striking out "(2)" and
inserting
(3)
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