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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Amend Educator Evaluation Requirements’
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 3 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §13704, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 635, Pt. A, §3, is amended to read:
 
2. Multiple measures of effectiveness.   Multiple measures of educator effectiveness, other than standards ofincluding but not limited to professional practice, including but not limited to student learning and growthstandards;’
Amend the bill in section 4 in paragraph A in the first line (page 1, line 19 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "practice and" the following: 'may include other'
Amend the bill by inserting after section 4 the following:
‘Sec. 5. 20-A MRSA §13704, sub-§5, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 635, Pt. A, §3, is amended to read:
 
D. Formation of a steering committee composed of teachers, administrators and other school administrative unit staff that regularly reviews and refines the performance evaluation and professional growth system to ensure that it is aligned with school administrative unit goals and priorities. A majority of the steering committee members must be teachers and must be chosen by the local representative of the applicable collective bargaining unit if the teachers in the school administrative unit are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Any revisions to the performance evaluation and professional growth system made by the steering committee must be reached by consensus; and’
Amend the bill by inserting after section 6 the following:
‘Sec. 7. Effective date. Those sections of this Act that amend the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 13704, subsections 1, 2 and 3 take effect September 1, 2021.’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the majority report of the committee and clarifies that a school administrative unit is not required to use student growth measures in educator evaluation requirements and provides that the effective date of the provisions in the legislation that remove the requirement regarding student growth and learning systems is September 1, 2021. This amendment also requires that a school administrative unit's steering committee on the elements of the school administrative unit's performance evaluation and professional growth system must include a majority of teachers chosen by the school administrative unit's local union and that any revisions to the performance evaluation and professional growth system made by the steering committee must be reached by consensus.
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