[Dipity] We should start an archive of good bills

Wed Mar 21 21:29:51 UTC 2001

Check this out. It already sailed through the state senate...

>Subject: [Dipity] We should start an archive of good bills
>Status:
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>This is the text of the Oregon bill if you are contacting your state
>legislator:
>
>71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
>
>NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
>amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
>signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
> { +  braces and plus signs + } .
>
>LC 2867
>
>                         Senate Bill 690
>
>Sponsored by Senators BROWN, CLARNO; Senators ATKINSON, CARTER,
>  CASTILLO, FERRIOLI, GORDLY, NELSON, SHIELDS (at the request of
>  Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon)
>
>
>                             SUMMARY
>
>The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
>measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
>consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
>brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
>introduced.
>
>  Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish
>American Indian language teaching license. Allows American Indian
>tribes to develop language test used for licensure.
>
>                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
>Relating to teacher licensure; creating new provisions; and
>  amending ORS 342.120 and 342.815.
>Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
>  SECTION 1.  { + Section 2 of this 2001 Act is added to and made
>a part of ORS 342.120 to 342.173. + }
>  SECTION 2.  { + (1) As used in this section, 'American Indian
>tribe' means an Indian tribe as that term is defined in ORS
>97.740.
>  (2) The Legislative Assembly declares that teaching American
>Indian languages is essential to the proper education of American
>Indian children.
>  (3) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall
>establish an American Indian languages teaching license.
>  (4) Each American Indian tribe may develop a written and oral
>test that must be successfully completed by an applicant for an
>American Indian languages teaching license in order to determine
>whether the applicant is qualified to teach the tribe's native
>language. When developing the test, the tribe shall determine:
>  (a) Which dialects will be used on the test;
>  (b) Whether the tribe will standardize the tribe's writing
>system; and
>  (c) How the teaching methods will be evaluated in the
>classroom.
>  (5) The test shall be administered at an appropriate location
>that does not create hardship for the tribal members
>administering the test.
>  (6) The commission may not require an applicant to hold a
>specific academic degree, to complete a specific amount of
>education or to complete a teacher education program to receive
>an American Indian languages teaching license.
>  (7)(a) An American Indian languages teaching license qualifies
>the holder to accept a teaching position in a school district,
>public charter school, education service district, community
>college or state institution of higher education.
>  (b) A holder of an American Indian languages teaching license
>who does not also have a teaching license issued under ORS
>342.125 may not teach in a school district or education service
>district any subject other than the American Indian language they
>are approved to teach by the tribe.
>  (c) A holder of an American Indian languages teaching license
>who does not also have a teaching license or registration issued
>under ORS 342.125 may not teach in a public charter school any
>subject other than the American Indian language they are approved
>to teach by the tribe.
>  (8) An American Indian languages teaching license shall be
>valid for three years and may be renewed upon application from
>the holder of the license. + }
>  SECTION 3.  { + The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission
>shall first make the American Indian languages teaching license
>available to applicants who will teach during the 2002-2003
>school year. + }
>  SECTION 4. ORS 342.120 is amended to read:
>  342.120. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires
>otherwise:
>  (1) 'Administrator' includes all superintendents, assistant
>superintendents and principals in the public schools or education
>service districts.
>  (2) 'Approved teacher education institution' is one which meets
>the standards of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission
>for preparation of teachers for preprimary programs and grades 1
>through 12.
>  (3) 'Approved teacher education program' is one offered by an
>approved teacher education institution and is so recognized by
>the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, after considering
>recommendations of the State Board of Education.
>  (4) 'Commission' means the Teacher Standards and Practices
>Commission.
>  (5) 'Educational assistant' means a classified school employee
>who does not require a license to teach, who is employed by a
>school district or education service district and whose
>assignment consists of and is limited to assisting a licensed
>teacher in accordance with rules established by the State Board
>of Education.
>  (6) 'Instruction' includes direction of learning in class, in
>small groups, in individual situations, in the library and in
>guidance and counseling, but does not include the provision of
>related services, as defined in ORS 343.035, to a child
>identified as a child with disabilities pursuant to ORS 343.146
>to 343.183 when provided in accordance with ORS 343.221.
>  (7) 'Intern teacher' means a regularly enrolled student of an
>approved teacher education institution who teaches under the
>supervision of the staff of the institution and of the employing
>school district in order to acquire practical experience in
>teaching and for which the student receives both academic credit
>from the institution and financial compensation from the school
>district or education service district.
>  (8) 'State board' means the State Board of Education.
>  (9) 'Teacher' includes all licensed employees in the public
>schools or employed by an education service district who have
>direct responsibility for instruction, coordination of
>educational programs or supervision or evaluation of teachers and
>who are compensated for their services from public funds.
>'Teacher' does not include a school nurse as defined in ORS
>342.455.
>  (10) 'Teaching license' means a license issued under ORS
>342.125 { +  or section 2 of this 2001 Act + }.
>  SECTION 5. ORS 342.815 is amended to read:
>  342.815. As used in ORS 342.805 to 342.937 unless the context
>requires otherwise:
>
>  (1) Notwithstanding ORS 342.120, 'administrator' includes any
>teacher the majority of whose employed time is devoted to service
>as a supervisor, principal, vice principal or director of a
>department or the equivalent in a fair dismissal district but
>shall not include the superintendent, deputy superintendent or
>assistant superintendent of any such district or any substitute
>or temporary teacher employed by such a district.
>  (2) 'Board' means the board of directors of a fair dismissal
>school district.
>  (3) 'Contract teacher' means any teacher who has been regularly
>employed by a school district for a probationary period of three
>successive school years, and who has been retained for the next
>succeeding school year. The district school board may enter into
>agreements that provide for a shorter probationary period of not
>less than one year for teachers who have satisfied the three-year
>probationary period in another Oregon school district.
>  (4) 'District superintendent' means the superintendent of
>schools of a fair dismissal district or, in the absence of the
>superintendent, the person designated to fulfill the
>superintendent's functions.
>  (5) 'Fair dismissal district' means any common or union high
>school district or education service district.
>  (6) 'Probationary teacher' means any teacher employed by a fair
>dismissal district who is not a contract teacher.
>  (7) 'Program of assistance for improvement' means a written
>plan for a contract teacher that with reasonable specificity:
>  (a) Helps teachers adapt and improve to meet changing demands
>of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century in ORS chapter
>329 if applicable.
>  (b) Identifies specific deficiencies in the contract teacher's
>conduct or performance.
>  (c) Sets forth corrective steps the contract teacher may pursue
>to overcome or correct the deficiencies.
>  (d) Establishes the assessment techniques by which the district
>will measure and determine whether the teacher has sufficiently
>corrected the deficiencies to meet district standards.
>  (8) 'Substitute teacher' means any teacher who is employed to
>take the place of a probationary or contract teacher who is
>temporarily absent.
>  (9) Notwithstanding ORS 342.120, 'teacher' means any person who
>holds a   { - teacher's - }   { + teaching + } license or
>registration as provided in ORS 342.125  { + or section 2 of this
>2001 Act + } or who is otherwise authorized to teach in the
>public schools of this state and who is employed half time or
>more as an instructor or administrator.
>  (10) 'Temporary teacher' means a teacher employed to fill a
>position designated as temporary or experimental or to fill a
>vacancy which occurs after the opening of school because of
>unanticipated enrollment or because of the death, disability,
>retirement, resignation, contract non-extension or dismissal of a
>contract or probationary teacher.
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