From the ECS State Policy Database Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance

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State Status/Date Level Summary GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Repeals: (1) Section 20-2-212.3, relating to increasing teachers' salaries in areas of shortage; (2) Section 20-2-212.4, relating to an additional five percent increase in teacher salary based on student performance; (3) Section 20-2-213, relating to career ladder programs; (4) Section 20-2-231, relating to the Georgia Education Leadership Academy; (5) Section 20-2-232, relating to staff development plans by local school systems. Pages 4-5 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127649.pdf Title: H.B. 706 - Repealing Various Teacher and Leader Provisions Source: www.legis.ga.gov 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 UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Directs the state board to adopt rules requiring each district's employee compensation system to be aligned with its annual evaluation system. Requires that by the 2015-16 school year, any advancement on a salary schedule must be based primarily on an evaluation, and prohibits a salary increase for an employee whose most recent evaluation rating was at the lowest level. Provides that an educator whose most recent evaluation was at the second-lowest level may not receive a salary increase unless the educator is a provisional educator, or is in the first year of an assignment, including new grade level, subject or school. Pages 30-31 of 35: http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/sbillenr/sb0064.pdf Title: S.B. 64 - Employee Performance Compensation Source: le.utah.gov ID Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Amends the provisions of Students Come First that were contained in S 1110 (2011) to clarify that: 1.) State-paid employee benefit apportionment (PERSI and FICA) is apportioned from the funds allocated for Pay for Performance. 2.) Academic growth calculations may be made based on cohorts of students with similar scores. 3.) School administrators may only earn up to 1.0 local Student Achievement Awards share. 4.) Pay for Performance funds must be distributed to districts by no later than the November 15th payment. 5.) The implementation date for the requirement that at least 5% of certificated district office staff pay be based on student performance is moved back one year. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/S1329.pdf Title: S.B. 1329 Source: legislature.idaho.gov UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Removes from the list of nonlapsing funds and accounts certain funds appropriated from the Uniform School Fund to the state board of education for new teacher bonus and performance-based compensation plans, as provided in Section 53A-17a-148 (Section 53A-17a-148 also repealed). http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0156.pdf Title: H.B. 156 - Repeal of Provision re: New Teacher Bonus and Performance-Based Compensation Plans Source: le.utah.gov SD Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Creates the math and science teacher incentive program for the purpose of providing rewards ($2500) to attract certified teachers who teach in math and science subject areas in middle school and high school or who are certified with a math or science specialist endorsement which they are utilizing for any grade, kindergarten through twelve. Program set to begin in the 2014-2015 school year. School districts cannot opt out. (Sec. 11) Creates the top teachers reward program for the purpose of providing rewards ($5000) to up to 20% of top (measured by annual teacher data) certified teachers in a district. School districts can opt out. (Sec.17) Establishes the Local Teacher Reward Plan Advisory Council to provide input in developing one or more model local teacher reward plan applications. (Sec. 30) Establishes the Local Teacher Reward Plan Oversight Board to establish the application form for the local teacher reward plan, further guidelines for district applications, a system to monitor whether each participating school district is complying with the local teacher reward plan, and penalties for noncompliance. (Sec. 32) Establishes the South Dakota Education Reform Advisory Council to advise upon the implementation of this Act. (Sec. 64) http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2012/Bills/HB1234ENR.pdf Title: H.B. 1234 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us IN Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 A new section (20-28-9-1) requires increases or increments in a local salary scale based on the following factors: 1) Combination of the following factors can account for no more than 33% of the calculation used to determine a teacher's increase or increment (number of years of experience and the attainment of either additional content area degrees or additional content area degrees and credit hours); 2) Results of evaluation; 3) assignment of instructional leadership roles, including the responsibility of conducting evaluations; 4) academic needs of students in the school corporation. Teachers rated ineffective or improvement necessary may not receive any raise or increment for the following year if the teacher's contract is continued. Teachers may appeal. By January 31, 2012, requires the department of education to publish a model salary schedule that a school corporation may adopt, and each school corporation is required to submit its local salary schedule to the department, where they will be published to the department's web site. Modifies language concerning supplemental services contracts to allow administrators to select and pay summer school teachers. Clarifies that current teacher salaries cannot be reduced due to a new salary scale adopted to meet requirements of S.B. 1. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html Title: S.B. 1 - Salary Increases Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills MI Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 From Legislative Staff Summary - Amends the public employment relations Act to prohibit decisions about the following subjects from being included in collective bargaining between a public school employer and a representative of its employees: (1) Teacher placement; (2) Policies for personnel decisions made when an employer eliminates a position, or recalls or hires after a position has been eliminated; (3) An employer's performance evaluation system; (4) A policy for discharging or disciplining employees subject to the tenure law, and the discharge or discipline of an individual employee; (5) Classroom observation; (6) A performance-based method of compensation; and (7) Parental notification of ineffective teachers. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/publicact/htm/2011-PA-0103.htm Title: H.B. 4628 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Requires any local board or community school or STEM school receiving federal Race to the Top grant monies to pay teachers based on performance. Requires any such local board to adopt a salary schedule for teachers based on performance; requires a board to measure performance considering specified elements, including the teacher's evaluation conducted under section 3319.111. Requires a local salary schedule to provide for annual adjustments based on performance (i.e., the annual performance-based adjustment for a teacher rated as accomplished must be greater than the annual performance-based adjustment for a teacher rated as proficient), and permits a salary schedule to provide for additional compensation for teachers who agree to perform duties, not contracted for under a supplemental contract, that the employing board determines warrant additional compensation, including assignment to a Title I building, low-performing school or other hard-to-staff school as determined by the board, or assignment to a high-needs subject or grade level. Requires the governing body of a community school or STEM school to comply with section 3319.111 as if it were a district board of education. Pages 197-198, 313-314 and 409-410 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf Title: H.B. 153 - Pay for Performance for RTTT Districts/Schools Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us 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 UT Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Permits a teacher to participate in the teacher salary supplement program if a secondary-level math or grade 7-8 science teacher's bachelor's degree major, master's degree, or doctoral degree has course requirements that are substantially equivalent to the course requirements for a bachelor's degree major, master's degree, or doctoral degree in math or science. Establishes an appeals process for a teacher to follow if the teacher applies for the salary supplement and is not certified as an eligible teacher. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/hbillenr/hb0110.pdf Title: H.B. 110 Source: le.utah.gov 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 ID Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Part 3 of Students Come First legislation. Adds to existing law relating to education to provide provisions relating to pay for performance. The plan rewards teachers and administrators on a school wide basis for student achievement as determined at the local level. Teachers may also be rewarded for teaching in hard to fill positions and for taking on leadership roles such as mentoring, creating curriculum, grant writing and obtaining National Board Certification. Effective July 1, 2012. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1110.pdf Title: S.B. 1110 Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov OK Signed into law 10/2010 P-12 Increases maximum allowable incentive pay amount; authorizes implementation of certain incentive pay plans; provides requirements and procedures for the incentive pay plans. Districts may adopt a salary schedule that provides additional compensation for achieving certain ratings under the Oklahoma Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation System (TLE). Any salary schedule adopted by a district may not set salaries at amounts less than those set pursuant to Section 18-114.12 of this title. No plan developed by the Board or implemented by the local a school district board of education may permit payment in any one year of incentives to any one teacher amounting to more than 50% of the regular salary of the teacher, exclusive of fringe benefits or extra duty pay. Any incentive pay award is to be an annual award and is not to be a part of a teacher's continuing contract of a teacher. Student test scores are not supposed to be the sole criterion for allocation of incentive pay under any plan developed or approved by the Board. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB2033_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 2033 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us FL Issued 06/2010 P-12 Establishes Florida's Task Force on Excellent Teaching. Directs the task force to: (1) Review performance appraisal systems and teacher certification systems (2) Identify initiatives and strategies that honor Florida's quality teachers for dedicating their careers to teaching (3) Examine the positive impact teachers have on the state's ability to compete in a global economy (4) Identify methods for establishing differential and performance-based merit pay for classroom teachers (5) Develop workable measures of student learning gains, including special education students (6) Formulate strategies for identifying and dealing with low-performing teachers (7) Identifying successful strategies and initiatives for improving the recruitment, development and retention of quality teachers through: --Reviewing teacher preparation programs --Identifying linkages between teacher merit and student learning --Identifying effective peer-delivered professional development and support and the essential components of new teacher support programs --Identifying, disseminating and replicating effective teaching practices, including strategies for teachers to collaborate --Identifying technologies proven to support teacher productivity, efficiency and effectiveness --Identifying effective working conditions to retain beginning teachers --Examining compensation, benefits and incentive issues --Examining options to define, recognize and reward effective teachers By December 2010, directs the task force to provide recommendations to the governor, president of the senate, speaker of the house and state board of education that address the goals and objectives of the task force, including recommendations regarding changes to statute and administrative rule. Provides the task force must continue in existence until its objectives are achieved but no later than June 2011, unless extended by a subsequent executive order. http://flgov.com/pdfs/orders/10-126-teaching.pdf Title: E.O. 10-126 Source: flgov.com NE Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 From the Fiscal Note: Provides for the rental income from solar and wind leases on school lands to be used for teacher performance pay beginning in 2016-17. The Board of Educational Lands and Funds (BELF) is to provide a separate accounting of state apportionment which shows the income from solar or wind energy leases on school lands up to an amount of $10 million, which is the maximum amount that may be allocated for teacher performance pay. Beginning in 2016, the funds shall be distributed to school districts on or before February 25 by the State Department of Education (NDE) if the Commissioner of Education has determined that at least 75% of the school districts have included teacher performance pay in collective-bargaining agreements. The funds are allocated to schools based upon the pro rata enumeration of children who are age five through eighteen in each district and are to be used for teacher performance pay. If a school district does not include performance pay in the collective-bargaining agreement, then the district is to return the funds received pursuant to the bill within one month to the temporary school fund. The provisions of the bill sunset in 2019, if the 75% requirement has not been met in 2016, 2017 or 2018 http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB1014.pdf. Title: L.B. 1014 Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools. Also requires the 2010 report to include: (1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs (2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding (3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers (4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning (5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts (6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts. Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to): (1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies (2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time (3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement (4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices (5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms. Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent. Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council. Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Adds national board-certified teachers as a group of educators eligible to be awarded stipends for improved student achievement through the educator excellence awards program. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00709F.pdf Title: H.B. 709 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us 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/ MO Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Creates the "Teacher Choice Compensation Package" for the St. Louis City School District to permit performance-based salary stipends, upon the decision of a teacher, to reward teachers for objectively demonstrated superior performance. It also creates the Teacher Choice Compensation Fund in the State Treasury. The General Assembly must annually appropriate $5 million to the fund. A teacher must give up his or her right to a permanent appointment for the duration of his or her employment with the school district to participate in the Teacher Choice Compensation Package. If a teacher chooses to no longer participate in the Compensation Package, he or she may not resume permanent teacher status with the district. Teachers will qualify annually in October. Stipends will be offered in increments of $5,000, up to $15,000 but must not exceed 50% of a teacher's base salary. The Department will make a payment to the district in the amount of the stipend, which will be delivered as a lump sum in January following the October qualification. If funds are insufficient, the Department may prorate payments. The Teacher Choice Compensation Package will be open to every person employed by the St. Louis City School District regardless of certification status, provided the other requirements are satisfied. Stipends will be prorated for part-time employees and will be forfeited for any teacher dismissed for cause. Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, teachers who opt out of their permanent contract may be eligible based on the following: student scores on a value-added test instrument as described in the act, evaluations by principals or other administrators, evaluations by parents, and evaluations by students. The Department is required to develop or identify model instruments for use by school districts, which may also use or develop their own instruments. The Department is required to develop criteria for determining eligibility for stipend increments. Test-scores will be given more weight than evaluations. The level of scores required must take into account classroom demographics. http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf Title: S.B. 291 - Performance-based Salary Stipends Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov TN Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Provides that employee bonuses and performance compensation are not conditions of employment that the board of education and professional employees' organization have to negotiate in good faith. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB2002.pdf Title: S.B. 2002 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills GA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Provides that effective July 2010, and until there is no longer a shortage of math and science teachers, a secondary school teacher licensed in math or science must be moved to the salary step on the state salary schedule that is applicable to six years of creditable service, unless he or she is already on or above such salary step. After such salary step, provides one additional year of creditable service each year for the next five years, after which time the teacher may continue to be attributed one additional year of creditable service on the salary schedule each year if he or she meets or exceeds student achievement criteria established by the Office of Student Achievement. Provides that upon expiration of five years, or any year thereafter that the teacher does not meet or exceed student achievement criteria, teachers must be moved to the salary step applicable to the actual number of years of creditable service the teacher has accumulated. Provides an annual $1,000 stipend for each year a K-5 teacher with an endorsement in math or science for each year the endorsement is in effect, for up to five years. After the five years, such teacher may continue to receive such stipend if he or she meets or exceeds student achievement criteria established by the Office of Student Achievement. Establishes minimum criteria for math and science endorsements for kindergarten and elementary teachers. Requires the Professional Standards Commission to establish standards for the math and science endorsements. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb280.pdf Title: H.B. 280 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us IA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Amends existing policy and adds new section (284.3) on single salary system. S.F. 445 incorporates Phase II (general salary increases) of the Educational Excellence Program into individual salary schedules and repeals the Educational Excellence Program including elimination of the Educational Excellence Phase I (minimum annual salaries) appropriation and the Phase II set-aside appropriations. From the fiscal note: Beginning in FY 2010, Educational Excellence Program Phase II allocations totaling $41.2 million to school districts and area education agencies (AEAs) will be rolled into the school aid formula and funded on a per pupil basis as part of the teacher salary supplement. The remaining General Fund standing appropriation to Educational Excellence Phase I for FY 2010 is estimated at $13.5 million and the Phase II set-aside is estimated at approximately $760,000. The estimated fiscal impact of Senate File 445 will be a reduction in General Fund expenditures in FY 2010 of $14.3 million compared to the current law estimate for FY 2010. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame=1&GA=83&hbill=SF445 Title: S.B. 445 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us UT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Establishes the Performance-based Compensation Pilot Program. Directs the state board of education to solicit and award grants on a competitive basis to districts and charter schools to develop and implement performance-based compensation plans for elementary school teachers. Requires performance-based compensation plans to provide that (1) student learning gains and (2) an employee's instructional quality as measured by classroom observations or other instruments each account for 40% of the maximum amount of performance-based pay that an employee may be awarded; the remaining 20% of the maximum amount of performance-based pay must include a measure of parent, student or community satisfaction. Repeals the pilot July 1, 2011. Requires criterion-referenced test results to be reported by classroom. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillenr/hb0328.pdf Title: H.B. 328 Source: le.utah.gov CO Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Allows the general assembly to determine annually whether to appropriate moneys for the alternative teacher compensation plan grant program; repeals the 2008-09 fiscal year appropriation of $ 1 million for the grant program; relates to grants to school districts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/B0D88A8489357D3887257552000135CC?open&file=213_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 213 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us CO Adopted 02/2009 P-12 Addresses an alternative teacher compensation plan grant program to be administered through the Department of Education and directs that funds be provided for a competitive grant program to school districts that seek to develop alternative teacher compensation plans. http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300%20Department%20of%20Education&agencyID=109&agencyName=301%20Colorado%20State%20Board%20of%20Education&ccrDocID=3019&ccrDocName=1%20CCR%20301-80%20Rules%20for%20the%20Administration%20of%20the%20Alternative%20Teacher%20Compensation%20Plan%20Grant%20Program Title: 1 CCR 301-80 Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us IL Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Revises the Teaching Excellence Program. Provides an annual payment of $3,000 to a teacher or counselor who holds both a Master Certificate and a corresponding certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Creates a $1,000 incentive for an active teacher or counselor who has a Master Certificate and agrees to provide at least 30 hours of mentoring during that year to teachers or counselors, as applicable. Creates similar incentive for a retired teacher or counselor who holds a Master Certificate and a current corresponding certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Provides an additional $1,000 to an eligible active or retired teacher or counselor who agrees to provide an additional 30 hours of mentoring during that year, for a total of 60 hours of mentoring and $2,000. Increases incentive to $2,000 for active and retired teachers and counselors who meet the aforementioned criteria and who agree to provide at least 30 hours of mentoring in schoolsin on academic early warning status or in schools in which 50% or more of the students receive free or reduced lunch. Provides an additional $2,000 to an eligible active or retired teacher or counselor who agrees to provide an additional 30 hours of mentoring in schools on academic early warning status or in schools in which 50% or more of the students receive free or reduced lunch for a total of 60 hours of mentoring and $4,000. Provides that mentoring under these provisions may include providing high quality professional development for new and experienced teachers or school counselors and/or assisting National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) candidates through the NBPTS certification process. Specifies and prioritizes Master Certificate incentives if funds are available. Provides that if funds remain after all incentives and bonuses have been expended, up to $250,000 must be used for the continuation of an appropriate electronic system to process Master Certificates and various payments. Revises the membership of the state P- 20 Council. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2687lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2687 Source: www.ilga.gov OR Rejected by voters 08/2008 P-12 Enacts the Kids First Act; requires that pay raises for public school teachers shall be based upon each teacher's classroom performance and not related to or connected to his or her seniority; provides that if a school district reduces its teaching staff, the district shall retain the teachers who are most qualified to teach the specific subjects, which they will be assigned to teach; provides the requirements for determining most qualified teachers. http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/irr/2008/020text.pdf Title: Ballot Measure 60 Source: http://www.sos.state.or.us/ FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation under the Retirement System; excludes charter school Merit Award Program funds from administrative fees; revises funding for dual enrollment instruction; authorizes transfer of funds for academic classroom instruction; provides for allocation of research-based reading instruction; authorizes a school district to redirect millage amounts. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5083er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5083&Session=2008 Title: H.B. 5083 Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Specifies that each fiscal year the legislature appropriates suffficient monies for Teacher Performance Pay Program into the Classroom Site Fund, the amount appropriated is equal to the product of the base level specified in statute multiplied by the prior year weighted student count multiplied by a six stage percentage point reaching 5.5% by June 30, 2018. Requires school districts to notify the Arizona Department of Education if the school district intends to participate in the Teacher Performance Pay Program no later than July 1 of the fiscal year that stage one monies are appropriated by the legislation. Contains an intent clause for the Teacher Performance Pay Program. Chapter 287 http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/48leg/24/bills/hb2211o.asp Title: H.B. 2211 Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 For schools or districts designated as "at risk" (changed from "unsatisfactory), teacher specialists may be assigned to work across grade levels and subject areas. Such teachers will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 50% of the current southeastern average teacher salary. Specialists are limited to three years in one school unless exceptions are made. To recruit principal specialists, who will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 1.25 times the supplement amount calculated for teachers. They may be employed as a component of the technical assistance strategy for two years and may continue for a third year if requested by the local board, the external review team or the state board. Modifies other provisions related to technical assistance -- including allowing schools to use technical assistance funds to provide homework centers. http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html or http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4662_20080529.doc Title: H.B. 4662 -- Amends Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Governor and General Assembly by January 15, 2009. (Page 10, Line 20) DIVISION IV – STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER QUALITY PROGRAM • Requires disposition of Teacher Quality Funding to be negotiated as part of a whole-grade sharing agreement (Page 66, Line 33) • Repeals language that included licensed teachers employed part-time by a district under an agreement with a practitioner preparation program in Teacher Quality funding. (Page 67, Line 7) • Increases the minimum salary for a beginning teacher by $1,500 to $28,000. (Page 67, Line 24) FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers is $2.1 million in FY 2009. • Increases the minimum salary for a career teacher by $2,500 to $30,000. (Page 67, Line 30) FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers is $828,000 in FY 2009. TEACHER QUALITY FUNDING ALLOCATIONS • Allocates $1.7 million for National Board Certification awards in FY 2009, an increase of $620,000 compared to FY 2008. The funding is intended to fulfill existing commitments, and no new awards are funded. The allocation for Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program is eliminated. (Page 69, Line 11) • Allocates $28.5 million for Professional Development for FY 2009, an increase of $8.5 million compared to FY 2008. Includes new sub-allocations of $8.5 million for professional development related to the core curriculum and $915,000 to implement a statewide early childhood professional development system. (Page 69, Line 28) • Allocates $250,000 for the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce (ITW) for FY 2009. This is a new allocation. (Page 71, Line 18) • Allocates $335,000 for Pay for Performance Implementation Projects for FY 2009. This is a decrease of $2.2 million compared to the original FY 2009 allocation enacted in 2007. This amount is sufficient to fund the implementation phase of the three projects that received development grants in FY 2008. (Page 71, Line 26) • Repeals the Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program. (Page 72, Line 5) Title: H.B. 2679 Source: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Directs the legislature, subject to future budget constraints, to annually appropriate money for stipends to special educators for additional days of work in recognition of the added duties and responsibilities assumed by special educators to comply with federal law regulating the education of students with disabilities and the need to attract and retain qualified special educators. Directs the state board of education to distribute money appropriated to school districts, charter schools and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind for stipends for special educators in the amount of $200 per day for up to 10 additional working days. Requires a special educator receiving a stipend to use the additional days of work before or after the school year to perform duties related to the IEP process, including administering student assessments, conducting IEP meetings, writing IEPs, conferring with parents and maintaining records and preparing reports. Provides that a person who does not hold a full-time position as a special educator is eligible for a partial stipend equal to the percentage of a full-time special educator position the person assumes. Pages 31-33 of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 2 - Section 21 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Defines "qualifying educational background." Beginning in fiscal year 2008-2009, provides an annual salary supplement of $4,100 for a full-time teacher and a partial salary supplement for a part-time teacher who teaches one or more courses of a secondary school level mathematics course, integrated science in grade 7 or 8, chemistry or physics, and who holds the appropriate endorsement for the assigned course, has a qualifying educational background, and is either a new employee or received a satisfactory rating or above on the teacher's most recent evaluation. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to create an on-line application system for a teacher to apply to receive a salary supplement through the Teacher Salary Supplement Program, determine teacher eligibility and certify a list of eligible teachers and the amount of their salary supplement to the Division of Finance. Creates the Teacher Salary Supplement Restricted Account within the Uniform School Fund. Provides that the account will be funded from legislative appropriations and must be used to to fund teacher salary supplements for school districts and charter schools. Pages 28- of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 2 - Sections 19 and 20 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Provides funds for one-time $1,000 signing bonuses for new educators (including teachers returning to education after one or more years of interrupted service) hired to begin teaching in the 2008-2009 school year. Provides funds for one-time performance-based compensation during the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that, to receive an allocation for one-time performance-based compensation, a school district or charter school must receive approval of the district or school's written performance-based compensation plan submitted to the state board of education. Provides that the plan must provide specific information about how the education entity intends to spend its allocation, including: (1) Who is eligible for the performance-based compensation (2) Criteria for awarding performance-based compensation (3) The instruments or assessments that may be used to measure or evaluate performance (4) The amount of performance-based compensation that may be awarded (5) Whether the performance-based compensation will be based on individual, team, or school-based performance, or a combination thereof. Requires an education entity that awards performance-based compensation from the appropriation to report to the executive appropriations committee by June 30, 2009 on the amounts awarded and the number of employees receiving awards. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0281.pdf Title: S.B. 281 Source: le.utah.gov NC Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Requires the State Board of Education to establish a pilot program authorizing the implementation of alternative teacher salary plans to enable local school administrative units to develop and implement plans that will improve student performance by financially rewarding teachers through performance pay plans, recruiting teachers to the school unit, and recruiting teachers to hard-to-fill positions in specific subject areas. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H966v5.html Title: H.B. 966 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ HI Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Provides an additional $5,000 bonus per year for each national board-certified teacher who teaches at:          (A)  A school that is in restructuring under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB);          (B)  A school with a high turnover rate, as determined by the department;          (C)  A school that is not making adequate yearly progress, but is not in restructuring under NCLB; or          (D)  A hard-to-fill school, as determined by the department. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/Bills/HB24_CD1_.htm Title: H.B. 24 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov TN Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 During the first year a system or school is on probation, the commissioner of education shall: (A) Have the authority to approve a school system's allocation of financial resources to a system or school on probation; (B) Have the authority to appoint a local community review committee to approve and monitor the school improvement plan; and (C) Implement at least one (1) or more of the following corrective actions: (i) Replace or reassign staff; (ii) Mandate a new, research based curriculum; (iii) Significantly decrease management authority at the school; (iv) Appoint instructional consultants; and (v) Reorganize the internal management structure. Effective with school year 2007-2008, each school and LEA shall include in their annual school improvement plans specific goals for improvement, including, but not limited to, school performance on value added assessment and other benchmarks for student proficiency, graduation rates and ACT scores where applicable, and student attendance. School improvement plans shall also identify areas of strengths and weakness as well as strategies to improve areas of weakness, how additional funds provided through the BEP as the result of changes made in the BEP formula for school year 2007-2008 will be used to address these areas and how the LEA will measure the improvements supported by these funds. Such strategies may include, but are not limited to: (1) Developing school or content-based professional development; (2) Developing teacher induction programs; (3) Increasing the number of reading and math specialists; (4) Increasing classroom equipment and supplies; (5) Reducing class size; (6) Using targeted tutoring and remediation; (7) Increasing numbers of school counselors and social workers; (8) Providing principal professional development; (9) Using enhanced technology for remediation and re-testing; (10) Employing school attendance officers; (11) reorganizing the school day instructional time; and (12) Implementing a standards based curriculum and associated instructional strategies. Requires the office of education accountability to review a sample of system and school improvement plans, determine what actions were taken in response to the annual plans, and report the results of its review to the select oversight committee on education and the house and senate education committees. (1) Makes it discretionary, rather than mandatory, that principals' performance contracts provide for bonuses beyond base salary if performance standards are exceeded; (2) Removes the requirement that when a principal exercises the authority to make staff decisions regarding administrative personnel for the principal must do so "pursuant to local school board policy"; (3) Removes authorization for a principal's designee to provide assessments to teachers. The principals will be required to provide the written assessments and meet with teachers to discuss the assessments; and (4) Removes the requirement that the contract entered into between a school board and a director of schools specify duties other than those prescribed by statute and that it contain performance standards including, but not limited to, school system performance on value added assessment and other benchmarks for student proficiency, graduation rates and ACT scores where applicable, and student attendance. Also removes the requirement that the contract provide for consequences when such standards are unmet and provide for bonuses if performance standards are exceeded. Requires the state board to develop the guidelines for differentiated pay plans by December 31, 2007, and requires each LEA to implement a differentiated pay plan before the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year. Requires the report card or assessments of the effectiveness of teacher training programs to be issued by November 1 of each year. Requires the first report cards or assessments to be issued no later than November 1, 2008. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0376.pdf Title: H.B. 472 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us IA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Allocates $173,943,894 -- $69,600,000 above FY07. Includes $20 million for professional development; $250,000 for new administrator mentoring and induction; $1.8 Million for Teacher Development Academy expansion; $4.4 million for teacher mentoring and induction programs; $1 million for Career Ladder/Pay for Performance Pilot Planning Grants; $3.3 million for market pay factor. Ends the National Board Teacher stipend program effective December 31, 2007. Those awardees in the program prior to that time will continue to receive their stipend until complete. Imcreases minimum salary thresholds by $1,000. http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,3561/ Title: S.F. 277 - funding provisions Source: Iowa State Department of Education IA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Removes all references to Team-based Variable Pay Pilots. Strikes section 284.1, subsection 4, which establishes as one of the elements of the student achievement and teacher quality program team-based variable pay providing additional compensation for improved student performance. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277 Title: S.F. 277 (Section 12) Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Creates a pilot program to restructure the teacher professional pay system to be known as the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program (REAP). (Act No. 1029) http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB2515.pdf Title: H.B. 2614 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us FL Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Establishes the Merit Award program for instructional personnel and school-based administrators; requires a school district board to adopt the plan in order to receive funding; authorizes charter schools to participate; relates to collective bargaining; provides for reversion of undistributed funds; provides for a distribution formula; relates to a performance-pay policy for school administrators and instructional personnel. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1226er.pdf Title: S.B. 1226 Source: Florida Legislature IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Requires the state board of education's annual budget to set out by separate line item the appropriation for the Teaching Excellence Program. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4308lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4308 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Extends the deadline from 2007 to 2013 for teachers to have obtained initial certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in order to receive a mandated salary adjustment. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399307 Title: H.B. 175 Source: www.legis.state.la.us IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Rewrites section 284.11 (former "Pilot program for team-based variable pay for student achievement"). New section 284.11 encourages school districts to establish teacher compensation opportunities that recognize the need for geographic or other locally determined wage differentials and provides incentives for traditionally hard-to-staff schools and subject-area shortages. Provides for state assistance to allow school districts to add a market factor to teacher salaries paid by the school districts. Provides that funds are to supplement, but not supplant, wages and salaries paid as a result of a collective bargaining agreement. Authorizes department to spend up to $250,000 of an allocation to support the implementation of a national board certification support program. Authorizes area education agencies to receive funds to support beginning teacher mentoring and induction programs. Deletes selected provisions from section 284.13 on authorized allocations for teacher salaries, professional development, etc. Requires a preliminary study to measure the cost and effectiveness in raising student achievement of a compensation system that provides financial incentives based on student performance. Beginning July 1, 2006, requires the commission to gather sufficient information to identify a pay-for-performance program based on student achievement gains and global content standards where student achievement gains cannot be easily measured. Directs the commission to review pay-for-performance programs in both the public and private sector. Based on this information, requires the commission to design a program utilizing both individual and group incentive components. Requires at least half of any available funding identified by the commission to be designated for individual incentives. Commencing with the school year beginning July 1, 2007, requires the commission to initiate demonstration projects, in selected kindergarten through grade twelve schools, to test the effectiveness of the pay-for-performance program. Directs the commission to select 10 school districts as demonstration projects. To the extent practicable, requires participants to represent geographically distinct rural, urban, and suburban areas of the state. Requires the commission, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, to select twenty additional school districts as demonstration projects. Requires the commission to prepare an interim report by January 15, 2007, followed by interim progress reports annually, followed by a final study report analyzing the effectiveness of pay-for-performance in raising student achievement levels. Requires the final study report to be completed no later than six months after the completion of the demonstration projects. Directs the general assembly to consider implementing the pay-for-performance program statewide for the 2009-2010 school year. Governor vetoed provisions establishing a pay-for-performance commission to design and implement a pay-for-performance program and provide a study relating to teacher and staff compensation containing a pay-for-performance component. Governor directs the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce to take the lead on this study. Governor likewise vetoed provisions directing the department to create a teacher remediation program to provide counseling and assistance for teachers whose students do not demonstrate adequate increases in achievement. Bill: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792 Veto message: http://www.governor.state.ia.us/legislation/2006/veto/060601_HF2792_Item.html Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 24 - 27 Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us IA Issued 06/2006 P-12 Directs the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce to propose a design for a pay-for-performance program and conduct a study of the design to measure the cost and effectiveness in raising student achievement of a compensation system that provides financial incentives based on student performance. http://www.governor.state.ia.us/legal/46_50/EO_48.pdf Title: E.O. 48 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year, each district school board must adopt a salary schedule with differentiated pay for both instructional personnel and school-based administrators. The salary schedule is subject to negotiation as provided in chapter 447 and must allow differentiated pay based on district-determined factors, including, but not limited to, additional responsibilities, school demographics, critical shortage areas, and level of job performance difficulties. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006 Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 55) Source: Florida Legislature SD Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Increases the length of time for which nationally certified teachers may receive stipends to be paid upon receipt of documentation of certification completion. During the first five years, the state department stipend is $1000 and the district's is $1000. From years 6 to 10, the district has the option to pay up to $1000 stipend, but if the district chooses not to do so, the state has no obligation to pay. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/SB83enr.pdf Title: S.B. 83 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us OH to governor 12/2005 P-12 Requires the state board to adopt standards that require the curricula of teacher preparation programs to be aligned with the state academic content standards, the state board's minimum standards for schools, and the value-added progress dimension developed by the Department of Education and to extend the deadline for the Department and the Educator Standards Board to propose a career ladder program for teachers. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_107_PS Title: H.B. 107 Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us TX Issued 11/2005 P-12 Requires the Commissioner of Education to establish a performance-based pay grant program for educators. The program is to use federal funds and other funds made available for this purpose and is to award grants to campuses of no less than $100,000 for rewarding educators for improving student performance. At least 75% of any grant awarded must be dedicated to compensation for classroom teachers. Grants are to be awarded based on growth in campus-level student performance according to criteria established by the Commissioner. School districts must apply to the Texas Education Agency to receive awards under this program. The state department must set aside from funds made available for this purpose no less than $10,000,000 for grants to be awarded based on incremental growth in student performance at campuses with high numbers of economically disadvantaged students. http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/exorders/rp51 Title: Executive Order RP51 Source: http://www.governor.state.tx.us AZ Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Establishes the Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force within the state board of education. By Februrary 2006 and annually thereafter, requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit specified school district data to the task force, which must conduct annual evaluation of one quarter of districts' performance based compensation systems based on the submitted data. Requires the annual evaluation to (1) Assess the relationship between components of individual district performance based compensation systems and the improvement in: (a) Individual student progress and achievement; (b) Achievement of school district and school site goals; (c) Teacher professional development; (d) Teacher job satisfaction; (e) Parent rating of the quality of education at the school and district levels and (2) Provide a report to the districts evaluated each year assessing the effectiveness of each district's performance based compensation system, including any recommendations for improvement. Requires the task force to annually submit its findings to the speaker of the house and president of the senate. On or before June 30, 2010, requires the task force to (1) provide recommendations to the state board on the implementation, operation and monitoring of performance based compensation systems and career ladder programs in the state, and (2) develop written recommendations based on elements of districts' performance based compensation systems. Requires all local boards in the state to adopt a performance based compensation system, and to vote on a performance based compensation system that includes the following elements: (1) School district and school performance; (2) Measures of academic progress toward the state board-adopted academic standards; (3) Other measures of academic progress; (4) Dropout or graduation rates; (5) Attendance rates; (6) Ratings of school quality by parents; (7) Ratings of school quality by students; (8) Imput of teachers and administrators; (9) Approval of the performance based compensation system by an affirmative vote of at least 70% of the teachers eligible to participate in the performance based compensation system. (10) An appeals process for teachers who have been denied performance based compensation. (11) Regular evaluation for effectiveness. Requires a performance based compensation system to include teacher professional development programs aligned with the elements of the performance based compensation system. Permits a local board to modify the aforementioned 11 elements and consider additional elements when adopting a performance based compensation system. Until December 31, 2009, requires each district to develop an assessment plan for its performance based compensation system and annually submit the plan to the department of education, along with a copy of the district-adopted performance based compensation system. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1074 Title: S.B. 1074 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Renames the Teacher and Administrator Enhancement and Retraining Grant Program the Teacher Opportunity Program. Eliminates requirement that program applicant be a citizen of the United States or permanent resident alien. Establishes the Dual Certification Incentive Program to encourage classroom teachers currently employed in the state to return to college to obtain certification in one or more additional subject areas. Specifies conditions for a teacher to be eligible to receive program funding. Allows each district to fund up to four scholarships for teachers with at least three years of experience as a licensed classroom teacher in a public school in the state. States that any classroom teacher awarded a scholarship under the Dual Certification Incentive Program may be allowed administrative leave with pay as provided under the district's certified personnel policies as is necessary for the classroom teacher to attend college classes, travel to or from the college, and take state-mandated tests as may be necessary to obtain the additional certification. Sets forth circumstances under which a teacher having participated in the program must repay the amount of the scholarships received under the Dual Certification Incentive Program. Authorizes the state board of education to suspend the Arkansas classroom teacher's license of any individual who fails, when required to do so, to repay moneys contributed for participation in the Dual Certification Incentive Program. States that upon earning dual certification under the Dual Certification Incentive Program, the dually certified classroom teacher must be paid a bonus of $3,000 each school year that the teacher: (A) Is employed full-time as a classroom teacher in an Arkansas public school district; and (B) Is teaching no fewer than two class periods in each of the different subject matter areas for which he or she received certification. Specifies circumstances under which an individual must lose eligibility for the annual incentive bonus. States that the first priority for the award of funds under the Teacher Opportunity Program is the award of scholarships under the Dual Certification Incentive Program, and that any funds remaining after all awards are made under the Dual Certification Incentive Program may be made for specified other needs. Requires the department of higher education to determine priorities, based on the needs of the state, for awarding grants in the event there are more applicants than funds available. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1982.pdf Title: H.B. 1982 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us MD (S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005 Postsec. Authorizing an area of critical shortage to include speech language pathology or audiology services under the Sharon Christa McAuliffe Memorial Teacher Education Award program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; defining terms; etc http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1235.htm Title: H.B. 1235 Source: StateNet DE Rule Adoption 01/2005 P-12 Amends regulation relating to knowledge, skills and responsibility based supplements for educators. Clarifies the effective date of salary supplements paid to educators who complete professional development clusters. Title: 14 DAC 1501, 1.0 - 12.0 Source: StateNet MS Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Extends the repeal of provisions that establish the State Employer- Assisted Housing Teacher Program. Extends the repealer on the Mississippi Employer-Assisted Housing Program for teachers in critical shortage areas until July 1, 2009. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0662SG.pdf Title: H.B. 662 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf Title: S.B. 42 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site DE Rule Adoption 01/2004 P-12 Provides procedures for implementation of movement by educators on the salary schedule set forth in 14 Del.C., Section 1305. Addresses movement from one column to another based on the satisfactory completion of graduate level course work toward a master's degree or graduate level course work completed toward a second master's degree, a doctorate, or as part of a course of study directly related to an educator's job assignment. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%201500%20Professional%20Standards%20Board.htm#P126_16752 Title: 14 DAC 1507 Source: Delaware State Web site GA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Provides for an annual increase in state pay for certain teachers; individuals who first became teachers on or after July 1, 2000, acquire rights to continued employment; provides procedures for hearings for such persons; provides for selection of a tribunal, transcripts, legal questions, burden of proof, decisions of the local board, and appeals. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb193.htm Title: S.B. 193 Source: Georgia Legislative Web site IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Adds that another goal of statewide team-based variable pay pilot program is to compare student achievement gains in participating districts with student achievement gains in nonparticipating districts. Requires the department to offer technical assistance in goal setting and student assessment to districts participating in the pilot program, and that priority must be given to districts that were previously approved to participate in a team-based variable pay pilot program. States that district that chooses to begin team-based variable pay plan in school year starting July 1, 2003 (rather than 2001) must inform the department by August 1, 2003 (rather than 2001), and that the department must certify the district plan by October 1, 2003 (rather than 2001). See Section 50: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Eliminates phase in the Iowa educational excellence program that pertains to enhancement of the quality and effectiveness of teachers through the use of performance pay. Eliminates language requiring department to allocate funds for this purpose. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Repeals sections of code relating to Phase III program, which establishes system of teacher performance pay. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/2003/ Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Increases the annual bonus of teachers obtaining national board for professional teaching standards certification. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2903.pdf Title: H.B. 2903 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site NV Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Relates to achievement and proficiency examinations administered in public schools; revises provisions governing the increase of salary for a teacher who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requires school districts to create and operate regional training programs for professional development of teachers and administrators; authorizes licensure and employment of teachers who are not citizens of the United States. Title: S.B. 3A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SD Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Any teacher that teaches a course over the Digital Dakota Network shall receive additional compensation for each course and from each school for which the teaching services are provided. Title: H.B. 1291 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/ OR Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 (Initiative No. 29 Measure 95) Amends the Oregon Constitution regarding performance pay for teachers; provides that student learning determines teacher pay; establishes that the teachers' qualifications, not seniority, determine retention. Title: V. 19; (NEW BILL) Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualifications; provides bonuses for certain teachers; requires Education Commissioner to adopt rules to define teaching mastery; renames the Division of Human Resource Development within the Department of Education as the Division of Professional Educators; clarifies requirements for performance-based pay policies. Title: H.B. 63 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Creates the Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act. Beginning in 2002, at least 20% of educator's performance evaluation will be tied to student improvement -- teachers and administrators who fail to measure up can be dismissed. Establishes more rigorous system of professional development, teaching standards, licensure and certification requirements; expands the salary system to include compensations for skills and knowledge. Encourages focused, career-long professional development and compensates teachers for additional responsibilities or becoming National Board certified. Ends social promotion - beginning in 2002, students reading below the standard in 3rd, 5th and 8th grades will be required to attend summer school and meet standard to move to next grade. Same provisions apply to 8th graders for math. Students not meeting standards will receive mandatory individual improvement plans (some state funds available for extra time instruction). Future students must demonstrate they meet 10th grade standards in language arts and math to receive academic diploma. Title: S.B. 260 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Teachers receiving National Board Certification will receive a 10 percent increase in salary Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Georgia Department of Education KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Establishes the intent of the General Assembly to reach a goal that there be at least one national board certified teacher in every public school by 2020; establishes certification trust fund; provides that a public school teacher who attains National Board Certification be given an annual salary supplement. Title: H.B. 25 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TN Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Specifies the teacher employed as probationary teacher for 1 year and as an apprentice teacher for 2 years will be considered as having met the 3 apprentice years requirement. Title: S.B. 2182 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet