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Attachment C 9 Paul Laughton From: Patrick Rhodes < patrick ,rhodes @orange.kl2.nc.us> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 203 1:18 PM To: Paul Laughton Subject: Fwd: NCSBA Legislative Update - April 15 Attachments: New Bills.pdf, Action Bills.pdf Legislative updates ---- - - - - -- Forwarded message ---- - - - - -- From: NCSBA Legislative Alert <noreplly a, eboardsoltitions.com> Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6 :18 PM Subject: NCSBA Legislative Update - April 15 To: patrick .rhodesgorange.lcl2.ne.us *NOTE THAT THIS UPDATE COVERS LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY DURING THE WEEK OF APRIL 8 -12 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE REVISES AND PASSES 2013 EXCELLENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACT Senator Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 (SB 361) underwent some modifications before being passed by the Senate Education Committee during their meeting last Wednesday, Both the teacher contracts and school performance grading sections were modified. Teacher Contracts. Implementation of teacher career status abolition was changed from immediate implementation to a staggered implementation schedule as follows: May 1, 2013 — June 30, 2018: Current teachers who have not attained career status prior to the 2012 -13 school year may not attain it during the 2012 -13 school year and shall be employed through 1 -year contracts (no grandfathering). July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014: Superintendents must conduct reviews of teachers employed by the LEA for at least three consecutive years and determine contract lengths of 1, 2, 3, or 4 years to be recommended to those teachers. The superintendent must recommend 25 percent of these teachers for 4 -year contracts, and the local school board must review these recommendations and accept them or select other teachers as part of the 25 percent of the district's teachers to be offered 4 -year contracts. Only teachers deemed effective as demonstrated by proficiency on their evaluation may be given the 4 -year contract, and those same teachers will receive a $500