Key Votes
SB 191 - Education Law Amendments - Key Vote
Colorado Key Votes
Dan Gibbs voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) on this legislation.
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Stages
- May 20, 2010 Executive Signed
- May 12, 2010 Senate Concurrence Vote Passed
- May 12, 2010 House Bill Passed
- April 30, 2010 Senate Bill Passed
- April 12, 2010 Introduced
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Legislation - Signed (Executive) - May 20, 2010
Title: Education Law Amendments
Signed by Governor Bill Ritter, Jr.
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (Senate) (27-8) - May 12, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Education Law Amendments
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to repass a bill, after having concurred with House amendments thereto, that create an evaluation system in order to determine educator effectiveness.
Highlights:
-Establishes a system to evaluate licensed personnel that will be used to provide a basis for making decisions regarding hiring, compensation, promotion, assignment, professional development, earning and retaining nonprobationary status, dismissal, and non-renewal of contract (Sec. 1).
-Defines "council" to mean the State Council for Educator Effectiveness, and outlines the following duties of the council (Secs. 2, 5):
- -Ensuring that all personnel are evaluated fairly;
-Ensuring that at least 50 percent of the evaluation is determined by the academic growth of the students; and
-Ensuring that teachers have an opportunity to improve their effectiveness through a teacher development plan.
Note:
NOTE: THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES ITS MEMBERS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO BOTH VOTE ON WHETHER TO CONCUR WITH THE OPPOSING CHAMBER'S AMENDMENTS AND, IF THE CONCURRENCE VOTE SUCCEEDS, VOTE TO REPASS THE BILL AFTER THE AMENDMENTS ARE INCORPORATED. THIS IS A VOTE ON REPASSAGE OF THE BILL AFTER THE MEMBERS CONCURRED WITH THE OPPOSING CHAMBER'S AMENDMENTS.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (36-29) - May 12, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Education Law Amendments
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that creates an evaluation system in order to determine educator effectiveness.
Highlights:
-Establishes a system to evaluate licensed personnel that will be used to provide a basis for making decisions regarding hiring, compensation, promotion, assignment, professional development, earning and retaining nonprobationary status, dismissal, and non-renewal of contract (Sec. 1).
-Defines "council" to mean the State Council for Educator Effectiveness, and outlines the following duties of the council (Secs. 2, 5):
- -Ensuring that all personnel are evaluated fairly;
-Ensuring that at least 50 percent of the evaluation is determined by the academic growth of the students; and
-Ensuring that teachers have an opportunity to improve their effectiveness through a teacher development plan.
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (21-14) - April 30, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Education Law Amendments
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that creates an evaluation system in order to determine educator effectiveness.
Highlights:
-Establishes that an evaluation system shall be used for making decisions regarding the hiring, compensation, promotion, assignment, professional development, earning, dismissal, and non-renewal of contracts for educators (Sec. 1).
-Establishes that the state board shall work with the governor's council to develop a system to evaluate the effectiveness of licensed personnel (Sec. 3).
-Establishes the State Council for Educator Effectiveness whose duties include ensuring that all personnel are evaluated fairly, that at least 50 oercent of the evaluation is determined by the academic growth of the students, and that teachers have an opportunity to improve their effectiveness through a teacher development plan (Sec. 5).
-Specifies that evaluations will take into consideration diverse factors, such as special education, student mobility, and classrooms with 95 percent of the students being classified as "high risk" (Sec. 5).
-Requires that the State Council for Educator Effectiveness provide the State Board with recommendations that define principal and teacher effectiveness based on demonstrated ability to produce improved student outcomes (Sec. 5)
-Requires local boards of education to adopt a written system to evaluate the employment performance of licensed personnel (Sec. 7).
-Requires that probationary teachers receive at least two documented observations each year and one evaluation that results in a written report (Sec. 7).
-Requires that non-probationary teachers receive at least one documented observation each year and that at least one evaluation results in a written report (Sec. 7).
-Authorizes that a non-probationary teacher given a rating of ineffectiveness will have an opportunity to appeal that rating under a fair, transparent process (Sec. 7).
-Establishes that Principals will also undergo evaluations at least once a year as they must demonstrate their ability to select effective teachers with unique qualifications that support the instructional model of his or her school and are aligned with the school's culture and mission (Sec. 7, Sec. 11).
-Defines a "probationary teacher" as one who has not completed 3 consecutive years of demonstrated effectiveness (Sec. 10).
-Establishes that a teacher may be assigned to a particular school only with the consent of the receiving school (Sec. 11).
-Specifies that any non-probationary teacher who was deemed effective and has not secured a job be placed in a priority hiring pool so that he/she is able to find a position (Sec. 11).
-Permits the suspension of a teacher during the contractual period when there is a decrease in teaching positions (Sec 12).
-Specifies that the evaluation system only apply to probationary teachers and shall no longer apply when the teacher has been granted non-probationary status as a result of three consecutive years of demonstrated effectiveness (Sec. 13).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - April 12, 2010
Title: Education Law Amendments
Sponsors
- Terrance D. Carroll (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joyce Foster (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Cheri Gerou (CO - R)
- Dan Gibbs (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary A. Hodge (CO - D)
- Michael 'Mike' Johnston (CO - D)
- Keith C. King (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mike Kopp (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas W. 'Tom' Massey Jr. (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Carole R. Murray (CO - R)
- Linda M. Newell (CO - D)
- Joshua A. 'Josh' Penry (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joe Rice (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Chris Romer (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christine Scanlan (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark Harold Scheffel (CO - R)
- Nancy Spence (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kenneth Guy 'Ken' Summers (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Greg Brophy (CO - R)
- Bill L. Cadman (CO - R)
- Bob Gardner (CO - R)
- Ted Harvey (CO - R)
- James E. 'Jim' Kerr (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kenneth H. 'Ken' Kester (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kent D. Lambert (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kevin Lundberg (CO - R)
- Michael 'Mike' May (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Karen Middleton (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Shawn Mitchell (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Betty June 'B.J.' Nikkel (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Scott W. Renfroe (CO - R)
- David C. Schultheis (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Amy Stephens (CO - R)
- Spencer Swalm (CO - R)
- Albert C. 'Al' White (CO - R) (Out Of Office)
