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Level |
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 LA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Section 2: Amends provisions related to extended sick leave for school bus drivers, teachers and other district employees. Repeals provision allowing local boards a waiver from certain parameters for extended sick leave. Specifies that, with exception of maternity leave for teachers, extended sick leave may only be used for a medical necessity, and defines medical necessity as the result of a catastropic illness or injury (i.e., life-threatening, chronic, or incapacitating condition) of the driver or driver, or an immediate family member. Amends provisions related to doctor's statement certifying a medical necessity. Directs local boards to develop and implement three sick leave bank policies, one each for school bus drivers, teachers, and other employees. Requires annual reporting to the department of education on the number of extended leave requests granted and denied annually, and the reasons for such denials. Provides only the local superintendent may make decisions on granting extended leave or sabbatical leave.
From bill analysis: Repeals Section 2 of Act No. 470 of the 2010 Regular Session, which provided that school nurses, speech language pathologists, audiologists, and educational diagnosticians are eligible for leave as provided in R.S. 17:46(A)(1)(b) and R.S. 17:1170 only in a fiscal year for which the amount of the state and local base per pupil cost determination, as established in the MFP formula most recently approved by the legislature, is increased at least 2.75% over the amount established for the previous fiscal year.
Bill text (pages 2-9 of 9): http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812415
Bill analysis: http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=802123
Title: S.B. 494 - Sick and Sabbatical Leave for District Employees
Source: legis.la.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Provides that if a district enters into a contract or employment agreement with an officer, agent, employee or contractor that includes a severance pay provision, the agreement must include the provisions of s. 215.425 (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0200-0299/0215/Sections/0215.425.html) (reducing severance package language from maximum of one year's salary to a maximum of 20 weeks' compensation). Amends separate section to require district school superintendent contracts, if they contain severance pay provisions, to include the provisions of s. 215.425.
Bill text (pages 8-9 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Severance Pay
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Addresses salary schedules for teachers and all school employees. Salary schedules for teachers, administrators and other certified staff will be based on the following criteria, with no one criterion accounting for more than 50% of salaries: effectiveness; demand inclusive of area of certification, particular school need, geographic area, and subject area, which may include advanced degree levels; and experience. No teacher or administrator rated ineffective can receive a higher salary in the year following the evaluation than received in the year of the evaluation.
http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=789546
Title: H.B. 974
Source: http://legis.la.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Defines "district administrator" and "school administrator". Directs the state board to adopt rules establishing a framework for the evaluation of school and district administrators that includes, among other components, student achievement indicators emphasizing learning growth and proficiency, and the results of a local evaluation tool that includes input from employees, parents and students. Requires districts to implement an evaluation system for school and district administrators by the the 2014-15 school year. By the 2015-16 school year, requires a school or district administrator's salary to be based on his/her most recent evaluation. Requires a district to continue to award any salary increases to a school or district administrator based on the aforementioned evaluation until at least 15% of a school or district administrator's salary is contingent upon the evaluation. Pages 31-32 of 35: http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/sbillenr/sb0064.pdf
Title: S.B. 64 - Administrator Evaluation and Compensation
Source: le.utah.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Provides that the first teacher supply and demand report following the initial report must be provided by January 2012, rather than January 2011. Requires administrator and teacher salary and benefits information, prior to being reported to the state board for an annual report, to be presented at a regular school board meeting and posted to the district Web site, if one exists. Makes other minor changes. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0256.pdf
Title: H.B. 3464
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Provides that for any school year in which a district has reduced the amount of the annual salaries paid to district classroom teachers from the amount paid for the preceding school year due to district financial conditions and not teacher performance, the district must reduce the amount of the annual salary paid to each district administrator or other professional employee by a percent or fraction of a percent that is equal to the average percent or fraction of a percent by which teacher salaries have been reduced. Pages 14-15: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 8 - Reduction in Teacher and Administrator Salaries
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Modifies current law to require up to 20 percent of a school district superintendent's salary be classified as performance pay. Previously law required at least 20 percent of the superintendent's compensation and benefits be classified as performance pay.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1263h.pdf
Title: S.B. 1263--Performance Pay
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | --Public employee pay: Does away with salary schedules and replaces with salary "ranges." Requires performance-based pay for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Requires a school board to measure performance by considering the level of license the teacher holds, whether the teacher is a "highly qualified teacher," the value-added measure the board uses to determine the performance of the students assigned to the teacher's classroom, the results of the teacher's performance evaluations or peer reviews (see Section 3317.13).
--Public employee benefits: Caps vacation leave at 7.7 hours per biweekly pay period. Reduces sick leave accrual for most public employees from 4.6 hours to 3.1 hours per biweekly pay period. Limits public employer contributions toward health care benefit costs to 85%. Requires health care benefits provided to management level employees to be the same as any health care benefits provided to other employees of the same public employer. Requires boards of education to adopt policies to provide leave with pay for school employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and abolishes statutorily provided leave for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Prohibits a public employer from paying employee contributions to the five public employee retirement systems. Requires health care benefits provided through a jointly administered trust fund to be the same as the health care benefits provided to other public employees.
--Employment: Abolishes continuing contracts for teachers, except for those continuing contracts in existence prior to the effective date of the bill and revises the law relating to limited contracts.
Reduction in force: Prohibits a school district financial planning and supervision commission from using seniority as the only factor when making reductions in nonteaching employees. Prohibits a public employer from violating Ohio or federal civil rights law when conducting a reduction in force.
Bill text: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_5_EN_N.pdf
Bill summary: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/s0005-rs-129.pdf
Title: S.B. 5 - Compensation sections
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| FL | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Repeals existing language related to local salary schedules. Directs local boards to establish a grandfathered salary schedule for all employees hired before July 1, 2014. By July 2014, requires local boards to adopt a performance salary schedule that provides annual salary adjustments for instructional personnel and administrators based on performance. Employees must be compensated based on performance after they have received a performance evaluation as revised through this legislation. Establishes salary adjustments for highly effective or effective performance. Provides an employee receiving a rating other than highly effective or effective will not receive an annual salary adjustment for that year. Also directs local boards to provides for salary supplements for assignment to a Title I or low-performing school, certification and teaching in a critical teacher shortage area, or assignment of additional academic responsibilities. Provides that if budget constraints in any given year limit a local board's ability to fully fund all adopted salary schedules, the performance salary schedule may not be reduced on the basis of total cost or the value of individual awards in a manner that is proportionally greater than reductions to any other salary schedules adopted by the district. Existing legislation defines "critical teacher shortage area" as math, science and career education; this legislation directs the state board to identify critical teacher shortage areas.
Requires instructional personnel on annual contract as of July 2014 to be placed on the performance salary schedule. Permits instructional personnel on continuing contract or professional service contract to opt into the performance salary schedule if the employee relinquishes such contract and agrees to be employed on an annual contract. Directs districts, in developing the grandfathered salary schedule for instructional staff, to base a portion of each employee's compensation on performance, and to provide differentiated pay for both instructional personnel and school administrators based on district-determined factors, including additional responsibilities, school demographics, critical shortage areas and level of job performance difficulties.
Prohibits local boards from using advanced degrees in setting a salary schedule for instructional staff or administrators, unless the advanced degree is held in the individual's area of certification and is only a salary supplement. Requires that a superintendent's primary consideration in recommending an individual for a promotion be the individual's demonstrated effectiveness.
Exempts a Race to the Top district from specified salary schedule and performance pay provisions for the 2011-12 school year and annually thereafter based on annual approval by the state board, provided specified criteria are met. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf
http://laws.flrules.org/2011/1
Title: S.B. 736 - Performance Salary Schedule
Source: laws.flrules.org
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Provides that a local school district may pay teachers based on the years of experience the teacher possessed in fiscal year 2009-2010 without negative impact to their experience credit; Provides that school districts may not pay district or school administrators more than they received in fiscal year 2009-2010; Requires districts to pay teachers and school and district administrators for changes in their education level. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4838.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4838
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Allows an educator, regardless of whether or not he/she is in a leadership position, to be placed on the salary schedule based on the leadership degree if the educator possessed (1) A master's level leadership degree prior to July 1, 2012; (2) An education specialist level leadership degree prior to July 1, 2013; or (3) A doctoral level leadership degree prior to July 1, 2014, as long as he/she was enrolled in such leadership preparation program on or before April 2009. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb923.pdf
Title: H.B. 923
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Prohibits the use of state funds to provide a salary increase for the local school superintendent or administrators during a school year in which a local board of education furloughs teachers, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, support staff or other nonadministrative positions. Requires the local board to provide 30 days' notice and a public hearing if local or private funds are intended to be used for salary increases for the local school superintendent or administrators during a year in which staff in the aforementioned nonadministrative positions were furloughed. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb977.pdf
Title: H.B. 977
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires school districts to post on their Web site an itemized salary compensation report for every administrative employee in the district, including the superintendent. Requires the report to include base salary, bonuses, pension contributions, retirement increases, the cost of health insurance, the cost of life insurance, paid sick and vacation day payouts, annuities and any other form of compensation or income paid on behalf of the employee. Requires the report to be presented at a regular board meeting. Provides that copies must be available to any individual requesting them. Requires every district to post online the contract the board enters into with an exclusive bargaining representative. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB2270lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2270
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation/
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to review models for performance-based pay and bonuses for teachers, principals and superintendents and to adopt rules authorizing school administrative units to use a performance-based pay model for the remuneration of teachers beginning in school year 2010.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/SP045801.pdf
Title: S.B. 458
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/
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| MA | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Relates to defining school principal's contracts; provides for school principals entering into individual employment contracts with their employing districts; provides that subsequent contracts shall be treated as a school principal entering into his second contract period and shall be subject to all further applicable terms and conditions; requires notification of nonrenewal.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st00/st00273.htm
Title: S.B. 273
Source: http://www.mass.gov/
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Requires that schools selected by the state board of education to participate in the technology assisted project-based instruction program, an internet-based alternative to learning in traditional brick-and- mortar schools, include in the annual report required under the program, a listing of the salaries, by title and job description, of the administrators who work at each school. Chapter No. 155
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/48leg/2r/bills/sb1081s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1081
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Eliminates school administrators from eligibility for educator salary adjustments to attract and retain highly skilled and dedicated educators.
Pages 26-28 of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf
Title: S.B. 2 - Section 18
Source: le.utah.gov
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Changes the calculation for minimum salaries of school principals and assistant school principals.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0035.pdf
Title: H.B. 35
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Amends the definition of administrator in the Illinois Pension Code to exclude a member on the Chicago teachers' or Chicago charter school teachers' salary schedule, and to include a member who is paid on an administrative payroll. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4541lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4541
Source:
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the state board to establish a grant program for High Performance Principals to attract successful principals to schools in need of improvement (that have not made adequate yearly progress for 2 or more consecutive years in the same subject). Mandates that the sole criteria for designating and selecting individuals as High Performance Principals must be data-based evidence of the effectiveness of a proposed High Performance Principal in improving a low performing school or in taking an average or excellent performing school to higher achievement within the last five years. Authorizes the state board to establish and maintain a nonexclusive pool of preapproved eligible candidates for High Performance Principals for consideration by local school systems.
Provides that an individual selected as a High Performance Principal is eligible for a one-year salary supplement, in an amount as determined by the state board and subject to legislative appropriations. Limits an individual grant to a maximum of $15,000 a year; provides that the amount shall be awarded pursuant to state board rule based on the relative recruitment need of that Needs Improvement School. Allows the local school system to apply for up to two additional school years for renewal of the High Performance Principal designation for an individual, subject to appropriation. Requires an individual selected as a High Performance Principal to enter into a contract with the local board which must include terms and conditions relating to the designation of High Performance Principal, as required by the state board.
Requires an individual to reimburse the local board for any moneys paid to him or her relating to the High Performance Principal designation if he or she does not comply with the terms of the contract relating to the High Performance Principal designation.
Requires a local board to report on the effectiveness of an individual designated as a High Performance Principal and his or her impact on the improvement of the school in the school year in which he or she was designated a High Performance Principal. Mandates that the state board use the data in the reports as the primary factor in evaluating applications for renewal of a High Performance Principal designation. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb468.pdf
Title: S.B. 468
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | In a Section regarding reclassification of principals in school districts other than the Chicago school district, provides that upon non-renewal of a principal's administrative contract, the principal shall be reclassified pursuant to the Section (requires written notice, due process).
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0201
Title: S.B. 427
Source: http://www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Requires a county superintendent of school and the governing board of a school district with 10 or more full-time employees, and the governing board of a community college district to annually report all compensation received by a county superintendent of schools, district superintendent of schools, and president of a community college and other personnel. Requires the reporting of compensation received by bargaining unit employees by the above-mentioned educational entities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_745_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_745_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 745
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | The education reform in this Act shall be known as the "Reinventing Education Act of 2004." The provisions include (1) establishing a weighted student formula; (2) providing additional information technology; (3) empowering principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; (4) strengthening community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; (5) providing more mathematics textbooks; (6) lowering class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; (7) providing full-time, year-round, high school student activity coordinators; (8) providing support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; (9) establishing a national board certification incentive program for teachers; (10) enhancing teacher education; (11) reducing the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; (12) improving the educational accountability system; and (13) requiring board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts. Establishes the after-school plus program revolving fund.Creates a working group to create a plan for principal performance contracts. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=HB2002&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs
Title: H.B. 2002
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes boards of education to establish tax- sheltered deferred compensation plans under section 457 of the federal Internal Revenue Code. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2002/Bills/A3500/3385_I1.PDF
Title: A.B. 3385
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | 1. Before September eleventh of each year, each school district is requried to report the following information to the superintendent of public instruction, with respect to each teacher and class of teachers and with respect to each administrator and class of administrators:
a. The number of days each was employed during the preceding school year.
b. The base salaries.
c. The amount of compensation provided for extended contracts.
d. The amount of compensation provided for cocurricular activities.
e. The amount expended for contract buyouts.
f. The amount of compensation provided in lieu of salaries.
g. The amount paid for signing bonuses.
h. The amount of compensation provided for substitute teaching and workload
adjustment.
i. The amount of compensation provided for any other purposes. j. The amount expended for health insurance benefits.
k. The amount expended for dental, vision, and cancer insurance benefits.
l. The amount expended for life and long-term disability insurance benefits.
m. The amount of retirement contributions and assessments, including individual shares
if paid by the district.
n. The district's share of Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes.
o. The amount of dues or membership fees paid by the district.
p. Any other benefits provided by the district.
2. In addition to the requirements of subsection 1, each school district must also indicate: a. Whether each teacher and administrator is employed on a full-time or a part-time basis. b. The number of days used to determine the base salary of each teacher and administrator.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DBBJ0500.pdf
Title: H.B. 1295
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | On or before October 1 of each year, requires the board of education of each school district to provide to a newspaper of general
circulation within the district a statement showing the name, position and salary of the superintendent, deputy superintendents, assistant superintendents, directors, principals and any other administrator with districtwide responsibilities of such school district.
Expires on June 30, 2006. http://www.kslegislature.org/enrollbills/approved/2003/82.pdf
Title: S.B. 82
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| NY | Vetoed 12/2002 | P-12 | Adjusts the salary cap for district superintendents appointed by a board of cooperative educational services to 98% of the Education Commissioners salary for the current fiscal year.
Title: A.B. 7535
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance, retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed as principals and supervisors of principals; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency; clarifies that retirees must meet performance requirements for each year of their employment prior to retirement; provides for the act's termination.
Title: H.B. 442, S.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes linkage with the Teachers' National Average Salary Bill; relates to the Teacher Tenure Law; provides for the appeal of transfers of teachers; adds failure to perform duties to grounds for termination.,
Title: H.B. 285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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