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122A.40 - 2013 Minnesota Statutes
2013 Minnesota StatutesEducation Code: Prekindergarten - Grade 12Chapter 122ASection 122A.40
2013 Table of Chapters2013 Statutes New, Amended or Repealed2013 Statutes Topics (Index)Chapter 122A
2017 Subd. 10 Amended 1Sp2017 c 5 art 2 s 21
2017 Subd. 11 Repealed 1Sp2017 c 5 art 2 s 58
(a) To improve student learning and success, a school board and an exclusive representative of the teachers in the district, consistent with paragraph (b), may develop a teacher evaluation and peer review process for probationary and continuing contract teachers through joint agreement. If a school board and the exclusive representative of the teachers do not agree to an annual teacher evaluation and peer review process, then the school board and the exclusive representative of the teachers must implement the plan for evaluation and review under paragraph (c). The process must include having trained observers serve as peer coaches or having teachers participate in professional learning communities, consistent with paragraph (b).
(2) must establish a three-year professional review cycle for each teacher that includes an individual growth and development plan, a peer review process, the opportunity to participate in a professional learning community under paragraph (a), and at least one summative evaluation performed by a qualified and trained evaluator such as a school administrator. For the years when a tenured teacher is not evaluated by a qualified and trained evaluator, the teacher must be evaluated by a peer review;
(8) must use data from valid and reliable assessments aligned to state and local academic standards and must use state and local measures of student growth that may include value-added models or student learning goals to determine 35 percent of teacher evaluation results;
(9) must use longitudinal data on student engagement and connection, and other student outcome measures explicitly aligned with the elements of curriculum for which teachers are responsible;
Affliction with active tuberculosis or other communicable disease, mental illness, drug or alcoholic addiction, or other serious incapacity shall be grounds for temporary suspension and leave of absence while the teacher is suffering from such disability. Unless the teacher consents, such action must be taken only upon evidence that suspension is required from a physician who has examined the teacher. The physician must be competent in the field involved and must be selected by the teacher from a list of three provided by the school board, and the examination must be at the expense of the school district. A copy of the report of the physician shall be furnished the teacher upon request. If the teacher fails to submit to the examination within the prescribed time, the board may discharge the teacher, effective immediately. In the event of mental illness, if the teacher submits to such an examination and the examining physician's or psychiatrist's statement is unacceptable to the teacher or the board, a panel of three physicians or psychiatrists must be selected to examine the teacher at the board's expense. The board and the teacher shall each select a member of this panel, and these two members shall select a third member. The panel must examine the teacher and submit a statement of its findings and conclusions to the board. Upon receipt and consideration of the statement from the panel the board may suspend the teacher. The board must notify the teacher in writing of such suspension and the reasons therefor. During the leave of absence, the district must pay the teacher sick leave benefits up to the amount of unused accumulated sick leave, and after it is exhausted, the district may in its discretion pay additional benefits. The teacher must be reinstated to the teacher's position upon evidence from such a physician of sufficient recovery to be capable of resuming performance of duties in a proper manner. In the event that the teacher does not qualify for reinstatement within 12 months after the date of suspension, the continuing disability may be a ground for discharge under subdivision 13.
The pendency of judicial proceedings must not be ground for postponement of the effective date of the board's order, but if judicial review eventuates in reinstatement of the teacher, the board must pay the teacher all compensation withheld as a result of the termination or dismissal order.
History: Ex1959 c 71 art 6 s 12; 1963 c 450 s 1; 1967 c 890 s 1; 1969 c 781 s 1; 1971 c 253 s 1; 1971 c 743 s 1; 1973 c 128 s 1; 1974 c 458 s 1-4; 1975 c 151 s 1; 1975 c 177 s 1; 1975 c 432 s 70; 1976 c 222 s 17,208; 1977 c 447 art 7 s 21-23; 1978 c 632 s 1,2; 1978 c 706 s 38,39; 1978 c 764 s 75,76; 1979 c 40 s 2; 1979 c 139 s 1; 1980 c 509 s 35; 1980 c 609 art 6 s 24,25; 1982 c 424 s 33; 1983 c 314 art 7 s 29-31; 1984 c 462 s 27; 1984 c 463 art 7 s 13; 1984 c 525 s 1; 1Sp1985 c 12 art 7 s 22; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 718 art 7 s 35; 1989 c 152 s 1; 1990 c 562 art 8 s 29; 1991 c 130 s 26; 1991 c 196 s 1,2; 1991 c 265 art 9 s 45-48; 1992 c 499 art 8 s 13; 1993 c 224 art 12 s 22,23; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 8 s 6; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 7 s 8; 1998 c 397 art 8 s 17-33,101; art 11 s 3; 1999 c 107 s 66; 1999 c 201 s 2,3; 1999 c 241 art 9 s 13-15; 2000 c 343 s 4; 1Sp2001 c 6 art 2 s 10,11; 2005 c 36 s 1; 1Sp2005 c 5 art 10 s 1; 2009 c 96 art 2 s 21,22; 2010 c 264 art 2 s 2,9; 1Sp2011 c 11 art 2 s 12-15; 2012 c 239 art 2 s 5,6; 2013 c 116 art 3 s 15
NOTE: The amendment to subdivision 5 by Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 11, article 2, section 12, applies to all collective bargaining agreements ratified after July 1, 2013. Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 11, article 2, section 12, the effective date.
NOTE: The amendments to subdivisions 6 and 8 by Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 11, article 2, sections 13 and 14, are effective July 21, 2011, and apply beginning with the 2014-2015 school year and later. Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 11, article 2, sections 13 and 14, the effective dates.
NOTE: The amendment to subdivision 9 by Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 11, article 2, section 15, applies to all collective bargaining agreements ratified after July 1, 2014. Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 11, article 2, section 15, the effective date.