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Key Votes
HF 1870 - Authorizes School Districts to Dismiss Teachers Based on Performance - Key Vote
Minnesota Key Votes
Stages
- May 3, 2012 Executive Vetoed
- April 28, 2012 Senate Conference Report Adopted
- April 26, 2012 House Conference Report Adopted
- March 5, 2012 House Concurrence Vote Failed
- Feb. 27, 2012 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 16, 2012 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 24, 2012 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Vetoed (Executive) - May 3, 2012
Title: Authorizes School Districts to Dismiss Teachers Based on Performance
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (Senate) (-) - April 28, 2012
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (House) (-) - April 26, 2012
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Failed (House) - March 5, 2012
Legislation - Bill Passed With Amendment (Senate) (36-26) - Feb. 27, 2012(Key vote)
Title: Authorizes School Districts to Dismiss Teachers Based on Performance
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that establishes teacher performance evaluations, rather than seniority alone, to be used in consideration for dismissal of teachers.
Highlights:
- Authorizes a negotiated plan to base unrequested leave of absence, discharge, and demotion decisions on a teacher’s subject matter licensure fields and evaluation outcomes (Secs. 2 & 4).
- Requires school boards to make discharge, demotion, and unrequested leave of absence decisions based on a teacher’s subject matter licensure fields and most recent evaluation outcome, beginning no later than the 2016-2017 school year (Secs. 3 & 4).
- Requires school boards to publish any unrequested leave of absence, discharge, or demotion plan due to discontinuance of position or lack of pupils (Secs. 3 & 4).
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (68-61) - Feb. 16, 2012(Key vote)
Title: Authorizes School Districts to Dismiss Teachers Based on Performance
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes teacher performance evaluations to be considered in teacher dismissals.
Highlights:
- Authorizes a school board to base unrequested leave of absence or dismissal decisions on a teacher's evaluation outcome, beginning no later than the 2016-2017 school year (Secs. 3 & 5).
- Requires dismissals and demotions in a particular licensure field to be implemented based on the following (Secs. 3, 5 & 6):
- The most recent evaluation outcome for teachers beginning with the “least effective” to “most effective” category; and
- The least to greatest seniority within each “effective” category.
- Specifies that unrequested leave of absence for teachers categorized as “ineffective” or less lasts for 1 year before the teacher’s right to reinstatement expires (Sec. 3).
- Prohibits the use of salary as a factor in dismissal or demotion decisions (Sec. 5).
- Requires a school board to publish implemented dismissal and demotion plans (Sec. 5).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 24, 2012
Title: Authorizes School Districts to Dismiss Teachers Based on Performance
Sponsors
- Branden Petersen (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Connie Doepke (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Keith Downey (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Sondra Erickson (MN - R)
- Dan Fabian (MN - R)
- Patrick 'Pat' Garofalo (MN - R)
- Jenifer Loon (MN - R)
- Pam Myhra (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Duane Quam (MN - R)
- Linda Runbeck (MN - R)
- Peggy Scott (MN - R)
- Kirk Stensrud (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
