TITLE: Relating to a classroom teacher's right to appeal to the commissioner of education regarding the teacher's designation under a local optional teacher designation system.

SUMMARY: Relating to a classroom teacher's right to appeal to the commissioner of education regarding the teacher's designation under a local optional teacher designation system.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to a classroom teacher's right to appeal to the commissioner of education regarding the teacher's designation under a local optional teacher designation system. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 21.3521, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows: (f-1) A classroom teacher may appeal to the commissioner if, based on the teacher's performance, the teacher believes that but for the school district's, open-enrollment charter school's, or agency's error the teacher would have earned a specific designation and the teacher: (1) fails to earn any designation; or (2) is issued a designation other than that designation. SECTION 2. 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.