= Removes the requirement that data on student academic progress account for 33% to 50% of the State Board of Education’s teacher and principal evaluation instrument.

= Enables charter schools and school districts to adopt instruments for the measurement of student academic progress other than the statewide assessment.

= Instructs school district governing boards to adopt policies describing the methods for evaluations and the formula to determine evaluation outcomes in a public meeting

= Requires the policies for principal and teacher evaluations that are adopted by school governing boards to describe the methods used for evaluating their performance-- which includes the data used to measure student performance, job effectiveness, and the formula used to determine evaluation outcomes.