Amend Floor Amendment 54 to CSHB 3 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In line 5 of the amendment, strike "each classroom teacher" and substitute "at least 60 percent of classroom teachers".

(2)  In line 6 of the amendment, strike "has" and substitute "have".

(3)  Strike lines 8 through 25 of the amendment, and substitute the following:

(A)  for a teacher who taught in the district during a the previous school year:

(i)  the teacher's impact on student growth using a locally developed value-added model applied to one or more district-chosen assessments; and

(ii)  evaluation of the teacher based on classroom observation; and

(B)  for a teacher for did not teach in the district during the previous school year, data and other evidence indicating that if the teacher had taught in the district during the previous school year, the teacher would have performed in the top half of teachers in the district;