Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0257

Relating to education

ARTICLE 1 - PRINCIPLED PAY PRACTICES

Providing for a
principled pay practices system to attract and retain high quality teachers;
modifying certain educational improvement plan content requirements for
consistency with the system and requiring substantial teacher participation in
plan development; providing for principled pay practices aid, specifying certain
school district qualification and collective bargaining agreement requirements
and providing for optional application approval by and appropriating money to
the commissioner of education for the aid; authorizing districts and exclusive
representatives of teachers to jointly reopen closed collective bargaining
agreements to enter into a principled pay practices system; repealing the
alternative teacher compensation system and aid

ARTICLE 2 - SITE BASED
ACHIEVEMENT CONTRACTS

Providing for commissioner of education grants to public
school sites to increase student achievement; specifying certain site and grant
eligibility requirements, requiring approved site decision making agreements and
achievement contracts and specifying certain site team plan and bargaining
agreement requirements; specifying certain application requirements and
providing for award of the grants, imposing certain minimum and maximum limits;
requiring commissioner annual reports to the legislature on program progress,
specifying certain report content requirements
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