HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 163

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2017

AN ACT

RELATING TO COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE; DISCOUNTING A STUDENT'S TEST SCORES FOR A TEACHER EVALUATION IF THE STUDENT HAS TOO MANY UNEXCUSED ABSENCES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of the School Personnel Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] TEACHER EVALUATIONS--STUDENTS WITH UNEXCUSED ABSENCES.--The department shall establish criteria to control for the potential effect of student attendance on a teacher's evaluation. The department shall incorporate a measure of the student's attendance rate to account for any additional variation in student achievement growth and refine the prediction of student achievement growth to ensure that student attendance has zero effect on student achievement measures of a teacher's evaluation."

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