SB 103 Summary

• School districts and public school academies must adopt rigorous performance evaluation systems for teachers that include annual evaluations, classroom observations, and rating teachers as highly effective, effective, minimally effective, or ineffective.

• Teacher annual evaluations must be based 25% on student growth data for 2015-2018 school years, increasing to 40% starting in 2018-2019, with at least 50% of that growth measured by state assessments in core content areas.

• Teachers rated ineffective on 3 consecutive annual evaluations must be dismissed, while teachers rated highly effective on 3 consecutive evaluations may be evaluated biennially instead of annually.

• Beginning 2018-2019 school year, pupils cannot be assigned to the same teacher in the same subject area for 2 consecutive years if that teacher was rated ineffective on their 2 most recent evaluations, unless parents are notified in writing by July 15.

• School administrators must be evaluated annually using similar systems based 25-40% on student growth data, and new professional teaching certificates cannot be issued starting July 1, 2018 unless applicants were rated effective or highly effective on evaluations for at least 3 school years.