Just hours after the defeat of parent trigger legislation, some of its advocates moved key portions into another bill.
In this case, this provision was salvaged:
“A bill focused on charter schools (HB 7009) was amended Tuesday afternoon. It now requires that children in classes taught by teachers with an “unsatisfactory” or “needs improvement” ratings during the current school year could not be taught by similar teachers in the same subject next year.”
Sounds reasonable except that the state’s evaluation system is ineffective.
Never say die, especially if there is a chance at harassing public school teachers.
More of the “punish don’t support” theory.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Just so that you know. This technique is called “Gut and Amend.” What you do is take a bill that has already passed through both houses committees and is up for a vote on the floor and at the last minute take out the original language and insert what you want to happen in the dead of night and then the vote. Very common. Just wanted you to know how this works.
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Yeah, if done on the streets it would be bait and switch. But definitely OK in the hallowed halls of government.
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Fund Education Now made a great point about this portion of the bill during the debate.
This could hurt elective teachers very badly.
Imagine you are a chorus teacher or an elementary art teacher. Typical in many cases, you are the only teacher of that subject at your school. You have a thriving program. You score well on the principal’s observation portion of the evaluation. However, your VAM score, which is based on the reading/math scores of students you may not even teach, is low. A low VAM can override your wonderful observation score and get you labeled as “Unsatisfactory” or “Needs Improvement.”
Students in your program this year cannot take your class next school year. In an elementary situation, the ENTIRE school can’t have that specials/enrichment course. What a disaster!!!
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I could see an unintended consequence (or possibly intended?) of this to be even more churn and turnover of teachers. If a school in a high-needs area gets too many teachers rated “ineffective,” then they would bring in new teachers just to give students a teacher without that label. The end result would then be even more teachers who leave the profession quickly, and then get replaced with other new teachers.
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