ASSEMBLY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 5077

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  DECEMBER 12, 2024

      The Assembly Education Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 5077 with committee amendments.

As amended, this bill extends the statutory pause on the collection of student growth objective data initiated pursuant to P.L.2024, c.14, and adds a pause on the collection of administrator goals data. The purpose of the bill is to extend the pause in the collection of student growth objective data and administrator goals data until the completion of possible revisions to the process of annually conducting teaching staff member evaluations which have been recommended by the New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force in its report issued September 30, 2024. 

     Under the amended bill, the collection of student growth objective data and administrator goals data would be paused until the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10, which is the chapter of the Department of Education regulations that concerns annual evaluations of teaching staff members.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:

      The committee amended the bill to add that the collection of administrator goals data is to be paused until the expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10.  Under the amendments, administrators include principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.  The committee also amended the bill to clarify the process of allowing an educator to request the ability to collect new student growth objective data or administrator goals data during this pause to be used for the educator’s annual review.