Amend HB 4205 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 39A.105(b)(3), Education Code, strike page 2, lines 1 through 7, and substitute the following:
(3) that at least 60 percent of the classroom teachers assigned to the campus be teachers who demonstrated instructional effectiveness during the previous school year, with instructional effectiveness determined by:
(A) for a teacher who taught in the district during the previous school year:
(i) the teacher's impact on student growth as determined using a locally developed value-added model that measures student performance on at least one assessment selected by the district;
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 39A.105(b)(3)(B), Education Code (page 2, line 15), strike "quartile" and substitute "half".
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter C, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 39A.116 to read as follows:
Sec. 39A.116. COMMISSIONER AUTHORITY. A decision by the commissioner under this subchapter is final and may not be appealed.