SB1167: Student growth indicators; Board of Education shall develop by October 1, 2014, report.


SENATE BILL NO. 1167
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Education
on February 13, 2013)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Barker)
A BILL to direct the Board of Education to develop student growth indicators.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Board of Education shall develop student growth indicators by October 1, 2014. The growth indicators shall be used in the standards of accreditation of schools and in teacher evaluations. The Department of Education shall provide an interim report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the development of the student growth indicators by December 1, 2013, and a final report on the indicators and their uses by October 1, 2014.

SENATE BILL NO. 1167

Offered January 9, 2013
Prefiled January 9, 2013
A BILL to establish a pilot program that explores the use and effectiveness of employing student growth indicators for school accountability and teacher evaluation.
Patron-- Barker

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.   1. The Virginia Department of Education shall establish a pilot program that explores the use and effectiveness of employing student growth indicators for school accountability and teacher evaluation. The Department shall give semiannual reports on the program to the Governor and the General Assembly. Such reports shall include (i) the process used for identifying schools to participate; (ii) the strengths and weaknesses associated with using student growth indicators as a method for school accountability or teacher evaluation; (iii) a comparison of the effectiveness of the use of student growth indicators to the effectiveness of the use of alternative methods of accountability and evaluation; and (iv) any recommendations to improve the school accreditation and teacher evaluation process that result from the program.

2.  That the provisions of this act shall expire on July 1, 2018.