[Mo-facs] FW: Proposed Legislation -- Lisa Walters email message

[Beverly Plymell]

Received this Friday afternoon.  Thought everyone should be aware and take
action.  We definitely don¹t want this bill to pass.

Have a good day and end of the school year.

Bev


-- 
Beverly A. Plymell
Family & Consumer Sciences Teacher
Keytesville R-III School
27247 Hwy 5
Keytesville MO  65261-2401
phone:  660.288.3767
fax:  660.288.3110


Proposed Legislation: HB 265

I have had many questions in the last two days concerning the proposed House
Bill (HB) 265.  I must admit, I was not aware and/or familiar with the
proposed bill until the emails started arriving.  I contacted Dr. Bert
Schulte, DESE Deputy Commissioner, who is our legislative contact (among
many other jobs).  He responded immediately with the information below.



>From proposed HB 265

"Beginning July 1, 2008, the Missouri school improvement program or
successor accreditation program shall neither require nor use a scoring
rubric that requires a score for meeting standards regarding librarian
staff, counselor staff, or any requirement regarding the offering of
vocational education or the certification of vocational education staff."

>From Dr. Schulte, 


The information you have is correctŠ.the quoted language was added to HB265.
I don¹t know how much of this bill will move ahead ­ right now it is 150
pages long and stacked with provisions of varying nobility.

If passed, the provision might have some effect on staffing patterns in
schools.  

Thanks, 

Bert 

>From MNEA (via forwarded email message)

³Please call your Senator & Representative tonight (Thursday) or tomorrow
morning:  Urge them to defeat the Amendment to SS/HB265 which would remove
the standards for librarians, couselors, and vocational agricultural
counselors from MSIP standards ­ one of the current benchmarks used for
evaluating schools.  If this amendment should pass, districts could reduce
the number of positiions in these areas withou jeoparizing their MSIP score. 

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