SENATE ED COMMITTEE PROTECTS TEACHER DUE PROCESS RIGHTS; UPDATE ON VEA BILL POSITIONS AT CROSSOVER
February 17, 2022
February 17, 2022
On Thursday, the Senate Education and Health Committee voted to Pass-By-Indefinitely a bill that would have rolled-back progress made in 2020 on teacher probationary terms and the three-person fair and impartial hearing panel. HB9, sponsored by Delegate Lee Ware, would have eliminated the option for a school board to conduct a teacher dismissal hearing before a three-member fact-finding panel, permit a school board to extend the three-year probationary term from 3 to 5 years, expand the term “incompetency” for the purpose of dismissal to include one unsatisfactory performance evaluation, and reduce from 10 days to 5 days the minimum period of advance written notice to the teacher of the time and place of a hearing. Watch the committee hearing on HB9, HERE.
The average pay of Virginia public school teachers in 2023-24 was $65,830. That is $4,260 below the national average of $70,090.
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