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Attachment-C 10 annual pay raise for each year of the contract. July 1, 2014: New teacher employment system without career status takes effect and applies to all teachers on contracts of I and 4 years. July 1, 2014 — June 30, 2015: Existing teacher employment system remains in effect for career status teachers not awarded 4 -year contracts, July 1, 2018: New teacher employment system with no career status applies to all teachers. Contract terms of 1, 2, 3, or 4 years will be recommended by the superintendent and subject to approval of the local school board. Other new additions to the teacher contract language include suggestions made by NCSBA that will allow school districts to better implement the new law. These provisions include: providing proper due process when a teacher is dismissed mid - contract, reinstitution of the standard of "arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory, or for personal or political reasons," appeals, and clarification of several other pieces. School Performance Grades. While changes were made to the school performance grading section, incorporation of school -wide growth remains a key omission. The approved changes added eighth grade scores in Algebra I /Integrated Math I, English lI and Biology end-of-course tests to reflect in the calculation of their school's letter grades, and clarified measures of college readiness to reflect only the math and reading components of the ACT rather than requiring that all four components count into the calculation of the high school's letter grade. Alamance- Burlington Board of Education member Jackie Cole spoke to the committee about concerns with omitting school -wide growth from the school performance grades and advocated for grandfathering teachers into the new teacher contract system. Dr. Marls Edwards, Superintendent of Mooresville Graded. Schools and the 2013 National Superintendent of the Year, also spoke to the committee about the problems with omitting school -wide growth from school performance grades. The legislation has been sent to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Click here to find NCSBA's issue brief on teacher career status and click here to find NCSBA's issue brief on school performance grades. HOUSE MEMBERS OFFER ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL REFORM BILL A bipartisan group of House members last week introduced a K -12 public education reform plan that offers a number of ideas different from those proposed in Senator Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act. House Bill 719- the Education Improvement Act of 2013, was introduced Wednesday and referred to the House Education Committee. Like the Excellent Public Schools Act HB 719 would reform teacher career status and school performance grades, except very different approaches would be taken on both issues. With regard to teacher career status, HB 719 would offer a system similar to one established in Colorado. Teachers would continue to be initially employed on probationary status for their first four years. A teacher would be automatically granted career status at the end of her fourth year if certain evaluation performance measures have been achieved during her probationary status. Teachers who have not reached specified evaluation performance measures during her four - year probationary status would be ineligible for career status and would be required continue to teaching on probationary status. Local school boards would be able to vote on granting career status to teachers who do not fall into either of the aforementioned categories. Career status teachers who do not achieve specified