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provided to the teacher in an electronic format. •Stipulates that a school district or charter school that receives information about a certificated teacher from the evaluation report and performance classification can solely use the information for employment purposes and cannot release to or allow access to the information by any other person, entity, school district or charter school. – The AEA supports this language because it protects against further dissemination of evaluation data. Governing Board Policies •Requires the governing board to adopt procedures specifying that preliminary notice of inadequacy of classroom performance be issued no later than the second consecutive year that the teacher is designated in one of the two lowest performance classifications. The exception to this is if the teacher is in the first or second year of employment with the district or has been reassigned to teach a new subject or grade level for the preceding or current school year. – The original version of HB 2500 regarded teachers in the two lowest performance classifications ("developing" or "ineffective") as inadequate. The AEA believes that a "developing" classification is not by definition negative and succeeded in amending the bill to include the exceptions described above. •Requires a governing board to prescribe training requirements for qualified evaluators. AT THE CAPITOL •Requires the governing board to identify the appropriate use of quantitative data of student academic progress in evaluations of all certified teachers. – The plan may make distinctions between certificated teachers who provide direct instruction to students and those who do not. – The plan may include data for multiple school years and may limit the use of data for certificated teacher who have taught for less than two complete school years. Definitions •Defines "inadequacy of classroom performance" as that which is adopted by the governing board pursuant to state law in A.R.S. 15-538. •Defines "performance classifications" as the four performance classifications adopted by the State Board of Education. (The classifications are highly effective, effective, developing, and ineffective.) •Defines "qualified evaluator" as a school principal or other person who is trained to evaluate teachers and who is designated by the governing board to evaluate the district's certificated teachers. Effective Date The provisions of this legislation apply from and after June 30, 2013. 2 Legislative Update: Bad Bills Blocked, cont. from page 9 operators, and School Tuition Organizations (STO). Victory! Union Bill Defeated Twice on Senate Floor SB 1182, Senator Griffin's paycheck deception bill, was defeated twice on the Senate floor in February. This bill would require unions to annually reauthorize in order to collect union dues via payroll. It applies to all public sector unions with no exclusion for public safety. The bill failed during Committee of the Whole (COW) which is a rare proce Summer.13advo.indd 27 dural move that only gets used once or twice per session. AEA worked hard to make sure that all 13 Democrats were in their seats so that we had the votes to do this. The 13 Democrats were joined in their "NO" votes by Senate Majority Leader John McComish, Senate Majority Whip Adam Driggs, and Senators Rich Crandall and Bob Worsley. The bill failed twice (as it was reconsidered on another procedural motion). Both times it failed on a roll call vote by a vote of 12 ayes and 17 nays. 2 AEA Advocate x Summer 2013 27 3/18/13 12:03 PM