TITLE: Relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the performance of public school teachers and administrators.

SUMMARY: Relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the performance of public school teachers and administrators.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the performance of public school teachers and administrators. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 21.355, Education Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 21.355. CONFIDENTIALITY. (a) A document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential. (b) Subsection (a) applies to a teacher or administrator employed by an open-enrollment charter school regardless of whether the teacher or administrator is certified under Subchapter B. (c) At the request of a school district or open-enrollment charter school at which a teacher or administrator has applied for employment, an open-enrollment charter school may give the requesting district or school a document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator employed by the school. SECTION 2. Section 21.355, Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies to each document described by that section, regardless of whether the document was created before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.