Oklahoma Senate Bill 77 Summary

• Amends the Oklahoma Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation System (TLE) to prohibit the use of value-added models in calculating the 35 percentage points of student academic growth under the quantitative component of teacher and leader evaluations.

• Allows local school districts to determine their own method of measuring student academic growth instead of using a state-mandated approach.

• Maintains the 50-50 split between quantitative and qualitative assessment components for teacher and leader ratings, with 50% based on quantitative measures (35 points for academic growth and 15 points for other academic measurements) and 50% on qualitative assessment.

• Preserves existing provisions allowing school districts that have already incorporated quantitative components under their own policies to continue using those components regardless of state board adoption.

• Declares an emergency and establishes an effective date of July 1, 2015.