GCO - Evaluation of Professional Staff
File: GCO
Evaluation of Professional Staff
In order to assure a high quality of educator and administrator performance and to advance the instructional programs of the schools, a continuous program for educator and administrator evaluation is established by the School Committee. The evaluation of educators and administrators will be in accordance with governing laws and the regulations established by the Board of Education.
Performance standards for educators and other school district employees shall be established by the School Committee upon the recommendation of the Superintendent, provided that where educators and/or administrators are represented for collective bargaining purposes, all performance standards shall be determined as follows:
The School Committee and the collective bargaining representative shall undertake for a reasonable period of time to agree on educator performance standards.
Prior to said reasonable period of time, the school district shall seek a public hearing to comment on such standards.
In the absence of an agreement, after such reasonable time, educator performance standards shall be determined by binding interest arbitration
Either the school district or the educators’ collective bargaining representative may file a petition seeking arbitration with the commissioner of education.
The performance standards developed either by mutual agreement or as a result of arbitration will be incorporated in the collective bargaining agreement and may be used in decisions to dismiss, demote or remove an educator or administrator pursuant to M.G.L. 71:42.
LEGAL REFS.: M.G.L. 71:38; 71:38Q; 71:42, 150E; 152B
603 CMR 35.00 et seq.
Reviewed; revised; 10/21/21