SSB 1026 (LSB 1852XC (2) 91)

SENATE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BILL BY CHAIRPERSON EVANS)

A BILL FOR

An Act modifying provisions related to the membership of teacher quality committees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 284.4, subsection 1, paragraph b, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   Create a teacher quality committee. The committee shall have equal representation of administrators and teachers. The teacher members shall be appointed by the certified employee organization if one exists, and if not, by the school district’s or agency’s administration. The administrator members shall be appointed by the school board. However, if a school district can demonstrate that an existing professional development, curriculum, or student improvement committee has significant stakeholder involvement and a leadership role in the school district, the appointing authorities may mutually agree to assign to the existing committee the responsibilities set forth in this paragraph “b”, to appoint members of the existing committee to the teacher quality committee, or to authorize the existing committee to serve in an advisory capacity to the teacher quality committee. The committee shall do all of the following:
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill modifies provisions related to the membership of teacher quality committees. School districts and area education agencies are eligible to receive moneys appropriated for purposes specified in Code chapter 284 (teacher performance, compensation, and career development) if the appropriate board applies to the department of education to participate in the student achievement and teacher quality program and submits a written statement declaring the school’s or agency’s willingness to, among other things, create a teacher quality committee. Under current law, the teacher quality committee is required to have equal representation of administrators and teachers, and the teacher members of the committee are to be appointed by the certified employee organization if one exists, and if not, by the school district’s or area education agency’s administration. The bill modifies this provision to provide that the teacher members of the teacher quality committee are to be appointed by the school district’s or area education agency’s administration.