Thank you for voting YES on HB 2200.If HB 2634 should come to you, I hope you will vote NO and help convince other senators to do likewise. Please let the Department of Education do its job in formulating a new evaluation system for the state rather than legislating one. The KEEP being piloted now was designed with all the stakeholders involved, and I have no doubt it will be a big improvement on anything that might be legislated.
Further, if districts are permitted to come up with their own evaluation system, it should definitely be negotiable. Just as we don't want insurance companies making medical decisions or evaluating physicians on purely financial rationale and without input from doctors, we should not have elected school boards making teacher evaluation procedure decisions without educator input.
Ginger Riddle