AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine lawmakers have endorsed proposed guidelines for local school districts to create teacher evaluation systems.
They were written in response to a state law passed in 2012 that requires school districts to develop and implement teacher evaluation systems based on things like student performance.
The Democratic-led House voted 118-20 on Monday in support of the rules developed by the Department of Education. The Senate followed with a 35-0 vote in the Senate. It will now be sent to Republican Gov. Paul LePage.
Among other things, the rules state that multiple measures of student performance must be used to evaluate teachers, not only things like standardized tests.
The department introduced the rules last year, but they failed to get two-thirds support of lawmakers for final approval and were reintroduced this session.
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