HB2375: Provisional teacher licensure; permissive extension, satisfactory performance evaluations.

Legislative Summary

Provisional teacher licensure; permissive extension; filed satisfactory performance evaluations during years of actual employment. Requires the Board of Education to extend for at least one additional year, but for no more than two additional years, the three-year provisional license of a teacher upon receiving from the division superintendent (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactory performance evaluations for such teacher for each year during the original three-year provisional license that such teacher was actually employed and received a filed performance evaluation. Current law requires satisfactory performance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the original three-year provisional license in order to be eligible for such an extension. Provisional teacher licensure; permissive extension; filed satisfactory performance evaluations during years of actual employment. Requires the Board of Education to extend for at least one additional year, but for no more than two additional years, the three-year provisional license of a teacher upon receiving from the division superintendent (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactory performance evaluations for such teacher for each year during the original three-year provisional license that such teacher was actually employed and received a filed performance evaluation. Current law requires satisfactory performance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the original three-year provisional license in order to be eligible for such an extension.