AB 934: Certificated school employees.

(1)Existing law establishes the California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers, which authorizes the governing board of a school district and the exclusive representative of the certificated employees in the school district to develop and implement a peer review program that meets local conditions and conforms to specified principles.

This bill would require each school district to create a multiple-day administrator training program on how to evaluate teachers and would require specified administrators to participate in the program. By imposing additional duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also encourage each school district to create a one-year principal, vice principal, or assistant principal, as applicable, support program that would allow highly effective school administrators to support specified principals, vice principals, or assistant principals, as applicable, demonstrating unsatisfactory performance to become proficient in the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.

(2)Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to evaluate a school principal, as provided. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of a school district to use the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders as the criteria for evaluating a school principal.

This bill would require the governing board of a school district to annually evaluate a school principal, vice principal, and assistant principal, as applicable, for the first and 2nd year of employment. The bill would require the superintendent of a school district to annually submit a report outlining his or her plan for the evaluation and support of principals, vice principals, and assistant principals, as applicable, of the school district to the governing board of the school district. The bill would also require the governing board of a school district to use the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders as the criteria for evaluating a school principal, vice principal, or assistant principal, as applicable. By imposing additional duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that every school principal, vice principal, and assistant principal, as applicable, be evaluated as frequently as necessary to ensure, in the view of the governing board of the school district, that they are satisfactorily proficient in the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders and are performing effective evaluations of teachers.

(3)Existing law requires a certificated employee who has completed 2 years of service to the school district as a probationary employee, or one year as an intern and a succeeding year as a probationary employee, and who is further reelected and employed during the succeeding school year to be classified as a permanent employee.

This bill would instead require a certificated employee who has completed 3 years of service to the school district as a probationary employee, or one year as an intern and 2 succeeding years as a probationary employee, and who is further reelected and employed during the succeeding school year to be classified as a permanent employee, as provided. The bill would require each 3rd-year employee of a school district who is probationary to continue to participate in the mentoring relationships with the support and professional development providers initiated during the California beginning teacher support and assessment program.

Existing law requires each person who, after being employed for 2 complete consecutive school years by a county superintendent of schools in a teaching position, as specified, is reelected for the next succeeding school year to such a position to be classified as a permanent employee of the county superintendent of schools.

This bill would instead require each certificated employee who, after being employed for 3 complete consecutive school years by a county superintendent of schools in a teaching position, as specified, is reelected for the next succeeding school year to such a position to be classified as a permanent employee of the county superintendent of schools, as provided. The bill would require each 3rd-year probationary employee of a county superintendent of schools to continue to participate in the mentoring relationships with the support and professional development providers initiated during the California beginning teacher support and assessment program.

(4)Existing law provides that a certificated employee who has served in 2 or more school districts governed by governing boards of identical personnel, as specified, for a total of 2 complete consecutive school years, upon being elected for the 3rd consecutive school year in either school district, shall, at the commencement of that year, be classified as a permanent employee of the last school district in which he or she was employed prior to election for the 3rd year.

This bill would instead provide that a certificated employee who has served in 2 or more school districts governed by governing boards of identical personnel for a total of 3 complete consecutive school years, upon being elected for the 4th consecutive school year in either school district, shall, at the commencement of that 4th year, be classified as a permanent employee of the last school district in which he or she was employed before election for the 4th year.

Existing law also provides that, where there are 2 or more school districts governed by governing boards of identical personnel, as specified, a certificated employee who has served in one of the school districts for 2 complete consecutive school years, upon being elected for a 3rd consecutive school year in any of the school districts, shall, at the commencement of that 3rd year, be classified as a permanent employee of the last school district in which he or she was employed prior to election for the 3rd year.

This bill would instead provide that, where there are 2 or more school districts governed by governing boards of identical personnel, as specified, a certificated employee who has served in one of the school districts for 3 complete consecutive school years, upon being elected for a 4th consecutive school year in any of the school districts, shall, at the commencement of that 4th year, be classified as a permanent employee of the last school district in which he or she was employed before election for the 4th year.

(5)Under existing law, the minimum requirements for a professional services credential with a specialization in administrative services include the completion of an individualized program of professional development activities and 2 years of successful experience in a full-time administrative position.

This bill would require a credential candidate to complete the individualized program during the first 2 years of experience in a full-time administrative position and would require the individualized program to include training on how to properly and effectively evaluate certificated employees.

(6)Existing

(7)This bill would also make conforming changes and nonsubstantive changes.