AB323: Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-114)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a strategic plan for the recruitment of teachers and other licensed educational personnel; revising the membership of the Commission on Professional Standards in Education; requiring the Commission to adopt certain regulations concerning the licensing of teachers and other educational personnel; authorizing a school district or governing body of a charter school or university school for profoundly gifted pupils to compensate a student who is assigned for training purposes as a student teacher, counselor, student social worker or trainee in a library; eliminating the requirement that pupil growth account for 15 percent of certain teacher and administrator evaluations; revising provisions governing the review of the statewide performance evaluation system; revising provisions relating to the evaluations that certain teachers are required to receive; authorizing a school district and the governing body of a charter school to provide certain professional development training; making an appropriation to the Department of Education; repealing provisions containing certain requirements relating to learning goals for pupils and the measurement of pupil growth; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.