Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 180: Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth Systems, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1542
Committee Amendment CA_A-HA_A_H546 (House)

HOUSE AMENDMENT "Iq" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1109, 
L.D. 1542, "Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 180: Performance 
Evaluation and Professional Growth Systems, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the 
Department of Education" 
Amend the amendment in section 1 in subsection 1 by striking out all of paragraphs 
A and B (page 1, lines 22 to 29 m amendment) and inserting the following: 
'A. Providing that measure:) of student learning and growth may not constitute more 
than 20% of the educator's total score in a performance evaluation and professional 
growth system adopted by a school administrative unit that uses a numerical 
approach to determine an e:ducator's summative effectiveness rating; and providing 
that equivalent measures of student learning and growth must be incorporated in a 
performance evaluation and professional growth system adopted by a school 
administrative unit that that uses a matrix approach to determine an educator's 
summative effectiveness rating; and 
B. Providing that the 20% measure in a performance evaluation and professional 
growth system adopted by a school administrative unit that uses a numerical 
approach, or its equivalent measure in a performance evaluation and professional 
growth system that uses a numerical approach, must include multiple measures of 
student learning and growth, including the following measures in determining an 
educator's summative effectiveness rating: 
(1) For all educators, 5% of the summative effectiveness rating must consist of 
measures of student learning and growth as reflected in standardized assessment 
data from two school-wide assessment tests for reading and mathematics; 
(2) For educators who teach in grades and subjects in which 2 consecutive years 
of summative assessment data are available, 15% of the summative effectiveness 
rating must consist of measures of student learning and growth as reflected in the 
summative assessment data. The Department of Education, through meaningful 
consultation during the 2013-2014 school year with the Maine Educator 
Effectiveness Council as described in section 2 of this resolve, shall develop 
guidelines for calculating the measures of student learning and growth at the 
classroom level. The measures must be evaluated as a pilot project during the 
2014-2015 school year; and 
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HOUSE AMENDMENT./I" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1109, L.D. 1542 
(3) For educators who do not teach in grades and subjects in which 2 consecutive 
years of summative assessment data are available, 15% of the summative 
effectiveness rating must consist of measures of student learning and growth as 
reflected in student progress in meeting 2 learning goals as measured by formal 
or teacher-created assessments. All educators are required to establish 2 student 
learning goals for measuring student learning and growth. The goals established 
for measuring student learning and growth must include 2 data points, be 
rigorous and comparable across classrooms;' 
Amend the amendment in section 1 by inserting after subsection 2 the following: 
'3. The rule must be amended in Section 11 to provide that all educators in a school 
administrative unit must be given an effectiveness rating before effectiveness ratings may 
be used to determine educator retention in the event of a reduction in force or nonrenewal 
of a contract.' 
Amend the amendment in section 1 in subsection 3 in the 4th line (page 2, line 7 in 
amendment) by inserting after the following: "by" the following: 'requiring that members 
of the local education association be included in the initial group and' 
Amend the amendment in section 1 by renumbering the subsections to read 
consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment amends Committee Amendment "A" to provide greater detail 
regarding the permissible elements of a professional evaluation and professional growth 
system; to provide that educator effectiveness ratings may not be used for a reduction in 
force or nonrenewal of a contract unless all educators in the school administrative unit 
have received a rating and to require that members of a local education association be 
part of the initial group of stakeholders cOllaborating.jD develop the professional 
evaluation and professional growth evaluation system. f 
SPONSORED BY: . !4b~~-.e/' 
(Representative MACDONALD, W.) 
TOWN: Boothbay 
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