AB 57 — Temporarily suspends certain requirements relating to certain teacher and administrator evaluations. (BDR 34-434)

(ReprintedAssembly withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on March 22, 2021) FIRST REPRINT A.B.

5757–Committee Aon SSEMBLYEducation BCHAPTER.......... ILLN O.

57–COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (ON B EHALF OF THE W ASHOE C OUNTY SCHOOL D ISTRICT) PREFILED N OVEMBER 18, 2020 ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Temporarily suspends certain requirements relating to certain teacher and administrator evaluations.

(BDR 34-434) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

No.

~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

requiring that pupil growth account for 0 percent of certain teacher and administrator evaluations throughfor the 2022-20232021-2022 school year;

requiring that pupil growth account for 15 percent of certain teacher and administrator evaluations beginning with the 2023-2022-2023 school year;

Existing law requires that pupil growth account for 15 percent of an evaluation of a teacher or administrator who provides direct instructional services to pupils.

(NRS 391.480) Section 1 teacherof orthis administratorbill duringrequires thethat schoolpupil yearsgrowth 2020-2021,account 2021-2022for and0 2022-ofpercent of an evaluation of a 2023.teacher or administrator during the school year 2021-2022.

Section 1 requires that pupil growth account for 15 percent of such an evaluation for each school year beginning with the academicschool year 2023-2024.2022-2023.

Section 2 of this bill temporarilytemporarilyyear suspends the requirement to establish learning goals for pupils during the school years 2020-2021,2020-2021 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.2021-2022.

-EXPLANATION *AB57_R1* – 2Matter –in THEbolded PEOPLEitalics OFis THEnew; STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

or - 81st Session (2021) – 2 – (4) Ineffective.

(b) Include the criteria for making each designation identified in paragraph (a), which must include, without limitation, consideration of whether the classes for which the employee is responsible exceed the applicable recommended ratios of pupils per licensed teacher prescribed by the State Board pursuant to NRS 388.890 and, if so, the degree to which the ratios affect:

(1) Zero percent of the evaluation of a teacher or administrator who provides direct instructional services to pupils at a school in a school district for the following school years:ls (I) School year 2020-2021;2021-2022;

(II)and School(2) Fifteen percent of the evaluation of a teacher or administrator who provides direct instructional services to pupils at a school in a school district [.] for each academic year 2021-2022;beginning with the school year 2022-2023.

(d) Include an evaluation of whether the teacher, or administrator who provides primarily administrative services at the school level or administrator at the district level who provides direct supervision of the principal of a school, and (III)who Schooldoes yearnot 2022-2023;provide primarily direct instructional services to pupils, regardless of whether the probationary administrator is licensed as a teacher or administrator, including, without limitation, a principal and vice administrator, employs practices and strategies to involve ander or engage the parents and families of pupils.

and (2) Fifteen percent of the evaluation of a teacher or administrator who provides direct instructional services to pupils at a school in a school district [.] for each academic year beginning with the school year 2023-2024.

(d) Include an evaluation of whether the teacher, or administrator who provides primarily administrative services at the school level or administrator at the district level who provides direct supervision of the principal of a school, and who does not provide primarily direct instructional services to pupils, regardless of - *AB57_R1* – 3 – whether the probationary administrator is licensed as a teacher or administrator, including, without limitation, a principal and vice principal or licensed educational employee, other than a teacher or administrator, employs practices and strategies to involve and engage the parents and families of pupils.

The application must be in the form prescribed by the State Board and - 81st Session (2021) – 3 – must include, without limitation, a description of the evaluation system and tools proposed to be used by the school district.

The State Board may approve the use of the proposed evaluation system and tools if it determines that the proposed evaluation system and toolsprescribed applyby standardsthe andState indicatorsBoard.cators that are equivalent to those prescribed4. by the State Board.

4.

391.480 For each school year beginning with the school year 2023-2024:2022-2023:

-the *AB57_R1*learning –goals 4for –pupils 4.established pursuant to this sectionhat measure pupil growth in accordance with the criteria established by regulation of the State Board.

The board of trustees of each school district shall ensure that the learning goals for pupils established pursuant to this section measure pupil growth in accordance with the criteria established by regulation of the State Board.

Notwithstanding the amendatory provisions of section 2 of this act, if an agreement entered into between a school - 81st Session (2021) – 4 – district and an employee organization before the effective date of this act provides incentives to teachers on the basis of learning goals for the pupils of the teacher, a teacher who is subject to such an agreement may continue to develop learning goals for pupils pursuant to NRS 391.480 to satisfy the requirements of the agreement for the duration of the agreement.

The amendatory provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this act apply for the entirety of the 2020-2021 school year to the evaluation of a teacher or administrator who provides direct instructional services to pupils at a school in a school district.district only to the extent that the amendatory provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this act do not result in the decrease of the overall rating of the teacher or administrator.

H~~~~~ 21 - *AB57_R1*81st Session (2021)