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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 78

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Relating to: pupil assessments, evaluation of educator effectiveness, and school accountability reports. (FE)

Public instruction, department of School School — Board School — Evaluation and testing School — Finance Teacher

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to annually

prepare accountability reports that evaluate the performance and improvement of

each school and school district in the state and, beginning in the 2015-16 school year,

of each participating private school and independent charter school. DPI must place

each school and school district into one of five performance categories based on

certain measures including pupil achievement in reading and mathematics.

This bill prohibits DPI from issuing a school accountability report for the

2014-15 school year.

Current law directs DPI to develop a system to evaluate the effectiveness of

teachers and principals in public schools, including independent charter schools.

Current law requires each school board and the governing body of each independent

charter school to evaluate teachers and principals in the school district or charter

school beginning in the 2014-15 school year. This bill delays until the 2015-16 school

year the requirement to evaluate the effectiveness of teachers and principals.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brandtjen (R) , E. Brooks (R) , Horlacher (R) , Jagler (R) , Kitchens (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Murphy (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

6 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Farrow (R) , Gudex (R) , S. Fitzgerald (R) , Vukmir (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 May 7, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 May 7, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Mar 5, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kitchens, Brandtjen, E. Brooks, Jagler, Horlacher, Kleefisch, Murphy and Thiesfeldt; cosponsored by Senators Farrow, S. Fitzgerald, Gudex, Vukmir and Wanggaard

  2. Mar 5, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Mar 10, 2015 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Mar 12, 2015 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kitchens

  5. Mar 17, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Mar 26, 2015 · Assembly

    Representative Allen added as a coauthor

  7. May 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-13-2015 by Committee on Rules

  8. May 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. May 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  10. May 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  11. May 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  12. May 13, 2015 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  13. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1