The Law and Licensing Committee approved adding an oversight category to the public educator evaluation rule, R277‑323, to reflect the board’s ongoing monitoring responsibilities.

Ben Rasmussen told the committee the board already requires monitoring of 10% of local education agencies annually under the rule and staff overlooked adding an oversight category when the rule was drafted earlier this year: "The rule already requires that the, that the board monitor 10% of LEAs annually. So that would put it in a category 3. And so that's the recommendation that that be added," Rasmussen said.

After a brief question about scope, the committee approved adding oversight category 3 to Section 1 of R277‑323 on first reading and will forward the change to the full board for second and final reading.