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| 2 | 2 | | SENATE BILL 1003 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Hensley |
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| 5 | 5 | | HOUSE BILL 1002 |
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| 6 | 6 | | By Haston |
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| 8 | 8 | | |
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| 9 | 9 | | HB1002 |
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| 10 | 10 | | 003074 |
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| 11 | 11 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 13 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, |
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| 14 | 14 | | relative to education. |
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| 16 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-105, is amended by deleting |
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| 18 | 18 | | subsections (g) and (h) and by designating the existing language of subsection (e) as |
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| 19 | 19 | | subdivision (e)(1) and adding the following new subdivisions: |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) The state board shall approve at least one (1) universal screener for pre- |
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| 21 | 21 | | kindergarten students to be used as an alternative growth model for purposes of |
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| 22 | 22 | | subdivision (e)(1) to generate individual growth scores for pre-kindergarten teachers |
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| 23 | 23 | | pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department. The universal |
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| 24 | 24 | | screener approved by the state board to evaluate pre-kindergarten teachers must not be |
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| 25 | 25 | | based on the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (3) LEAs and public charter schools that provide a voluntary pre-kindergarten |
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| 27 | 27 | | program shall allow pre-kindergarten teachers to use the results of a universal screener |
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| 28 | 28 | | approved by the state board pursuant to subdivision (e)(2) as an alternative growth |
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| 29 | 29 | | model to generate individual growth scores for pre-kindergarten teachers. |
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| 30 | 30 | | SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-1508, is amended by deleting |
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| 31 | 31 | | subsection (d) and substituting instead the following: |
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| 32 | 32 | | (d) LEAs and public charter schools may allow teachers in the non-tested grades |
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| 33 | 33 | | kindergarten through two (K-2) to use the results of the Tennessee universal math |
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| 34 | 34 | | screener, the Tennessee universal reading screener, or a universal reading screener |
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| 35 | 35 | | approved by the state board of education, as described in subsection (b), as an |
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| 38 | 38 | | - 2 - 003074 |
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| 40 | 40 | | alternative growth model for purposes of ยงยง 49-1-302(d)(2)(B)(ix) and 49-6-105(e) to |
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| 41 | 41 | | generate individual growth scores for such teachers pursuant to the evaluation |
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| 42 | 42 | | guidelines developed by the department. The department shall not base the Tennessee |
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| 43 | 43 | | universal math screener, the Tennessee universal reading screener, or a universal |
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| 44 | 44 | | reading screener approved by the state board of education used to evaluate teachers |
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| 45 | 45 | | pursuant to this subsection (d) on the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model. |
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| 46 | 46 | | SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, |
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| 47 | 47 | | and applies to the 2025-2026 school year and each school year thereafter. |
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