Report of Regents P-12 Education/Higher Education Joint Meeting Committee to The Board of Regents

Your P-12 Education Committee and Higher Education Committee held a joint meeting on June 17, 2013.  All members were present.

ACTION ITEM

Adoption of New Linkage Rules and an Enhanced Growth Model for Annual Professional Performance Reviews (APPRs)

Your Committees recommend that the Board of Regents approve the linkage rules, the addition of student growth measures for principals in schools with grades 9-12 and an enhanced growth model for APPRs conducted in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years, all as described in the item;

Your Committees recommend that the Board of Regents approve a value-added measure for the 2014-2015 school year as described in the item; and

Your Committees recommend that the Board of Regents amend section 30-2.2 of the Rules of the Board of Regents as submitted, effective July 1, 2013, as an emergency measure to preserve the public welfare to ensure that school districts and BOCES are notified immediately of the change to the definitions of student growth percentile score for APPRs conducted in the 2012-2013 school year.

MOTION FOR ACTION BY FULL BOARD

Madam Chancellor and Colleagues: Your P-12 Education Committee and Higher Education Committee recommend, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the written report of the Committees’ deliberations at its meeting on June 18, 2013, copies of which have been distributed to each Regent.