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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS."
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description: "This Act changes the current evaluation system for all teachers from the former Delaware Performance Appraisal System II evaluation to a new Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System. The goal of this new evaluation system is to build a culture of professionalism and learning within every school by converting the evaluation system from a teacher-focused to a learning-focused system. It also increases accountability by requiring a beginning, middle and end of the year review of both the teacher’s professional learning goals and student improvement goals."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 133"
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citation: "Delaware HB 133 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Eric Morrison", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael F. Smith", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherae'a Moore", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-03-23"
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last_action: "2021-08-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f76fa5c7-0270-49ef-8336-cd0aad578d61"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48415"
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source_hash: "c17c3a3549da4ad802c84d425519f24f4013608b520d537ffd85223797aa7564"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 133 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS.
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This Act changes the current evaluation system for all teachers from the former Delaware Performance Appraisal System II evaluation to a new Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System. The goal of this new evaluation system is to build a culture of professionalism and learning within every school by converting the evaluation system from a teacher-focused to a learning-focused system. It also increases accountability by requiring a beginning, middle and end of the year review of both the teacher’s professional learning goals and student improvement goals.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48415&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB133)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
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- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
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- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
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- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-03-23** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2021-04-29** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2021-08-04** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f76fa5c7-0270-49ef-8336-cd0aad578d61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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