Evaluation Protections & Educators

Under current law, an evaluation report and all public records used in preparing the evaluation report for licensed education personnel (personnel) are confidential and available only to the personnel being evaluated, to the duly elected official and appointed public officials who supervise the personnel's work, and to a hearing officer conducting a hearing or a court of appeals reviewing a decision of the board of education.

The bill extends the confidentiality of evaluation reports and public records that are used in preparing the evaluation reports to all teachers, principals, administrators, special service providers, and education support professionals.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)