Committee advances bill to standardize educator preparation metrics and publish program outcomes

House Bill 1107, presented by Vice Chair Rice (Speaker 4), would set statewide, uniform performance measures for educator preparation providers and require the Georgia Professional Standards Commission to report aggregate outcomes publicly while protecting individual confidentiality.

Rice told the committee the bill ‘‘modernizes how we evaluate teacher preparation programs’’ and includes indicators such as enrollment requirements, completion rates, initial GACE pass rates, job placement and retention at one, three and five years, employer and graduate satisfaction surveys, teacher evaluation data and student performance outcomes. He said the Board of Regents would annually review data and determine whether interventions are needed.

Members asked for clarity on how valuations are done; Rice said the PSC already collects teacher-performance and student-outcome data and the bill expands models to include the multi-year retention metrics and updated public transparency. ‘‘This legislation is...part of what we have already enacted on literacy and math reforms,’’ Rice said, tying the bill to other statewide initiatives.

A member moved to ‘‘do pass’’ and the committee approved the measure by voice vote; the transcript records supportive comments from committee members and no formal roll-call tally. The committee action advances the bill to the next stage of the legislative process.