Bill Summary for Bill Number HB12-1135

Date: 02/27/2012

Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB12-1135

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Votes: View-->	Action Taken:
Postpone House Bill 12-1135 indefinitely. The moti	PASS

01:49 PM -- House Bill 12-1135

Representative Murray, sponsor of House Bill 12-1135, presented the bill. The bill requires that, no later then July 1, 2014, the State Board of Education (SBE) adopt additional rules concerning teacher evaluation. The new rules would allow school districts, when conducting teacher evaluations, to recognize the work of teachers who participate as cooperating teachers with students enrolled in teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education.

The bill requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) to modify the rules for educator preparation programs to require a minimum amount of contact hours with cooperating teachers, and sets deadlines for cooperating teachers to achieve increasing levels of qualification. Specifically, the rules must require that beginning in:

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2012-13, all cooperating teachers have at least three years of teaching experience, be non-probationary, and successfully complete an assessment of readiness;

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2013-14, all cooperating teachers complete additional professional development;

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2015-16, at least 60 percent of cooperating teachers had an effective or highly effective rating in the previous school year;

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2016-17, at least 75 percent had the rating in the previous year; and

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2017-18, 100 percent had the rating in the previous year.

Representative Murray asked the committee to move to postpone indefinitely House Bill 12-1135.


BILL:	HB12-1135
TIME:	01:50:25 PM
MOVED:	Murray
MOTION:	Postpone House Bill 12-1135 indefinitely. The motion passed on a roll call vote of 13-0.
SECONDED:	Kerr A.
		VOTE
	Hamner	Yes
	Holbert	Yes
	Joshi	Yes
	Kerr A.	Yes
	Murray	Yes
	Peniston	Yes
	Ramirez	Yes
	Schafer S.	Yes
	Solano	Yes
	Summers	Yes
	Todd	Yes
	Beezley	Yes
	Massey	Yes

Final YES: 13 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS