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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE TERMINATION OF SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES. This Act continues the changes made to the Delaware Performance Appraisal System II created under Senate Bill 42 of the 151st General Assembly, with modifications. In order to maintain an evaluation system under current operational challenges, this bill modifies Senate Bill 42 by allowing evidence collected during the observation and feedback cycle to be used a part of the evaluation cycle, to assign a summative rating, and to place educators on improvement plans, if needed. Additionally, this bill extends the pilot for the Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System, created under House Bill 133 of the 151st General Assembly, to the 2022-2023 school year, moving the start date for statewide implementation to the 2023-2024 school year. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 HB 291 Delaware HB 291 (151)
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Kimberly Williams
Laura V. Sturgeon
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Delaware HB 291 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE TERMINATION OF SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES.

This Act continues the changes made to the Delaware Performance Appraisal System II created under Senate Bill 42 of the 151st General Assembly, with modifications. In order to maintain an evaluation system under current operational challenges, this bill modifies Senate Bill 42 by allowing evidence collected during the observation and feedback cycle to be used a part of the evaluation cycle, to assign a summative rating, and to place educators on improvement plans, if needed. Additionally, this bill extends the pilot for the Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System, created under House Bill 133 of the 151st General Assembly, to the 2022-2023 school year, moving the start date for statewide implementation to the 2023-2024 school year.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 390 (pass) · lower
  • SM — 210 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
  • Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
  • Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
  • Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
  • Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
  • David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
  • Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
  • John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
  • Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
  • Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
  • S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2022-01-24 Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 291, and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-01-26 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-01-27 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
  • 2022-01-27 Suspension of Rules in Senate
  • 2022-01-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2022-02-16 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8267773f-0f31-4d05-9174-3ae616ba47cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).