BILL NUMBER: AB 292	CHAPTERED  09/01/99

	CHAPTER   279
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 1, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   AUGUST 31, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 23, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 16, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 7, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 23, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 27, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 8, 1999

   An act to add Section 44661.5 to the Education Code, relating to
teachers.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 292, Davis.  Teachers.
   Under existing law, there is the California Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment System, administered jointly by the Commission
on Teacher Credentialing and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.  Existing law requires the commission and the
superintendent to approve the most cost-effective programs of support
and assessment and to ensure that programs meet the Standards of
Quality and Effectiveness for Beginning Teacher Support and
Assessment and support beginning teachers in meeting the competencies
described in the California Standards for the Teaching Profession.
   Under existing law, participation in the California Beginning
Teacher Support and Assessment System is voluntary for teachers,
school districts, and county offices of education, and participation
by certificated employees may not be made a condition of employment.

   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to encourage
the governing boards of school districts to review and consider the
performance based teacher assessment methodology of the National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a model for local
district evaluation standards and procedures.
   Existing law, commonly known as the Stull Act, requires the
governing board of a school district to establish standards of
expected pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study
and to establish and define job responsibilities for certificated
noninstructional employees.  Existing law requires that the governing
board of a school district evaluate and assess certificated employee
performance as it reasonably relates to, among other things,
instruction techniques, adherence to curricular objectives, and pupil
progress.  Existing law requires a school district to develop and
adopt guidelines for the purpose of this evaluation and assessment.
   This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district
to include in the guidelines, with the agreement of the exclusive
representative of the certificated employees of the district,
standards from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
or the California Standards for the Teaching Profession if the
standards to be included are consistent with the Stull Act.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the
governing boards of school districts to review and consider the
performance based teacher assessment methodology of the National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a model for local
district evaluation standards and procedures.
  SEC. 2.  Section 44661.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   44661.5.  When developing and adopting objective evaluation and
assessment guidelines pursuant to Section 44660, a school district
may, by mutual agreement between the exclusive representative of the
certificated employees of the school district and the governing board
of the school district, include any objective standards from the
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or any objective
standards from the California Standards for the Teaching Profession
if the standards to be included are consistent with this article.  If
the certificated employees of the school district do not have an
exclusive representative, the school district may adopt objective
evaluation and assessment guidelines consistent with this section.