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Senate amends and passes wide-ranging education employment reform after hours of debate
Summary
S.B. 64, a major education reform bill focused on administrator and teacher evaluation, student-learning growth measures, and compensation access, passed after multiple floor amendments that sought to balance parental input, local control, and protection of the 'steps and lanes' salary structure.
Senator Osman led floor consideration of first substitute S.B. 64, a comprehensive education-employment reform package that revises evaluation systems for administrators and teachers, ties compensation access to performance, and introduces new timelines for remediation and personnel actions.
The bill’s supporters described it as an administrative modernization that focuses accountability on school leadership and aligns evaluation practices statewide. Opponents and amendment…
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