HB 1166 Summary

• Requires each qualified school district to develop and maintain a written teacher performance plan approved by the Department of Education, with teacher evaluations based on statistically verifiable measures of student instructional improvement goals.

• Allows teachers at schools not identified for comprehensive support and improvement to receive evaluations once every two years, while requiring annual evaluations for new teachers during their first three years and teachers at low-performing schools.

• Permits qualified school districts to dismiss new teachers after their third year if they received any combination of "needs improvement" or "ineffective" ratings during their initial three years of teaching.

• Authorizes the Department of Education to issue compliance orders to districts failing to comply with teacher evaluation requirements and to withhold state funds and grants if districts do not remedy noncompliance within 60 days to one year.

• Repeals previous provisions establishing school corporation staff performance evaluation plan requirements and makes conforming amendments to references throughout Indiana Code sections related to education.