Committee/Subcommittee Amendment — PCS for HB 753 (2026) — Amendment No. 1

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Amendment No. 1 to PCS for HB 753 (2026), offered by Representative McFarland in the Careers & Workforce Subcommittee and published January 16, 2026. The amendment inserts a new Section 1 amending paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 1012.34, Florida Statutes, on personnel evaluation procedures and criteria. The amended text sets evaluation criteria based on student performance, instructional practice, instructional leadership and other indicators, and adds that evaluation criteria for certified school counselors must be based on the Florida School Counseling Standards adopted by the State Board of Education. It also states that the section does not preclude a school administrator from observing classroom teachers for mentorship and feedback. A title amendment describes an act relating to school counselors. The committee action boxes are blank on the five-page form.

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                                          COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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       Amendment No. 1




            COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE ACTION
       ADOPTED                         (Y/N)
       ADOPTED AS AMENDED              (Y/N)
       ADOPTED W/O OBJECTION           (Y/N)
       FAILED TO ADOPT                 (Y/N)
       WITHDRAWN                       (Y/N)
       OTHER


1      Committee/Subcommittee hearing bill:       Careers & Workforce
2      Subcommittee
3      Representative McFarland offered the following:
4
5           Amendment (with title amendment)
6           Between lines 9 and 10, insert:
7           Section 1.   Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
8      1012.34, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
9           1012.34   Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria.—
10          (3)    EVALUATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA.—Instructional
11     personnel and school administrator performance evaluations must
12     be based upon the performance of students assigned to their
13     classrooms or schools, as provided in this section. Pursuant to
14     this section, a school district's performance evaluation system
15     is not limited to basing unsatisfactory performance of
16     instructional personnel and school administrators solely upon
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17     student performance, but may include other criteria to evaluate
18     instructional personnel and school administrators' performance,
19     or any combination of student performance and other criteria.
20     Evaluation procedures and criteria must comply with, but are not
21     limited to, the following:
22          (a)   A performance evaluation must be conducted for each
23     employee at least once a year, except that a classroom teacher,
24     as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers,
25     who is newly hired by the district school board must be observed
26     and evaluated at least twice in the first year of teaching in
27     the school district. The performance evaluation must be based
28     upon sound educational principles and contemporary research in
29     effective educational practices. The evaluation criteria must
30     include:
31          1.    Performance of students.—At least one-third of a
32     performance evaluation must be based upon data and indicators of
33     student performance, as determined by each school district. This
34     portion of the evaluation must include growth or achievement
35     data of the teacher's students or, for a school administrator,
36     the students attending the school over the course of at least 3
37     years. If less than 3 years of data are available, the years for
38     which data are available must be used. The proportion of growth
39     or achievement data may be determined by instructional
40     assignment.


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41          2.   Instructional practice.—For instructional personnel, at
42     least one-third of the performance evaluation must be based upon
43     instructional practice. Evaluation criteria used when annually
44     observing classroom teachers, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a),
45     excluding substitute teachers, must include indicators based
46     upon each of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices adopted
47     by the State Board of Education.
48          a.   For instructional personnel who are not classroom
49     teachers or certified school counselors, evaluation criteria
50     must be based upon indicators of the Florida Educator
51     Accomplished Practices and may include specific job expectations
52     related to student support.
53          b.   For certified school counselors, evaluation criteria
54     must be based upon indicators of the Florida School Counseling
55     Standards adopted by the State Board of Education.
56          c.   This section does not preclude a school administrator
57     from visiting and observing classroom teachers throughout the
58     school year for purposes of providing mentorship, training,
59     instructional feedback, or professional learning.
60          3.   Instructional leadership.—For school administrators, at
61     least one-third of the performance evaluation must be based on
62     instructional leadership. Evaluation criteria for instructional
63     leadership must include indicators based upon each of the
64     leadership standards adopted by the State Board of Education
65     under s. 1012.986, including performance measures related to the
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66     effectiveness of classroom teachers in the school, the
67     administrator's appropriate use of evaluation criteria and
68     procedures, recruitment and retention of effective and highly
69     effective classroom teachers, improvement in the percentage of
70     instructional personnel evaluated at the highly effective or
71     effective level, and other leadership practices that result in
72     student learning growth. The system may include a means to give
73     parents and instructional personnel an opportunity to provide
74     input into the administrator's performance evaluation.
75          4.   Other indicators of performance.—For instructional
76     personnel and school administrators, the remainder of a
77     performance evaluation may include, but is not limited to,
78     professional and job responsibilities as recommended by the
79     State Board of Education or identified by the district school
80     board and, for instructional personnel, peer reviews,
81     objectively reliable survey information from students and
82     parents based on teaching practices that are consistently
83     associated with higher student achievement, and other valid and
84     reliable measures of instructional practice.
85
86           -----------------------------------------------------
87                        T I T L E   A M E N D M E N T
88          Remove line 2 and insert:
89          An act relating to school counselors; amending s.
90          1012.34, F.S.; requiring evaluation criteria for
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91          certified school counselors to be based on specified
92          standards; amending s.




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