This bill modifies the model framework for teacher and principal evaluations as follows:

• Decreases the percentage that student academic progress data can factor into evaluation scores from between 33 and 50 percent to between 20 and 40 percent.

• Requires the framework to include teacher observations that account for between 60 and 80 percent of the evaluation score.

• Requires that student academic progress data to be directly attributable to the teacher, and that the data does not include students who weren’t enrolled in the school for a full year.

• Schools are not required to use data from statewide assessments as part of the evaluation, and are prohibited from using this data to evaluate teachers who don’t teach subjects tested by the statewide assessment.

• Allows school districts to decide the factor to which statewide assessment data will play into the overall student academic progress score, and can include multiple measures of student academic progress.