In order to remove control by local school boards, this bill allows the state teachers unions to bargain on merit pay, performance evaluations, personnel decisions, teacher placement, and discipline. In other words, it protects bad teachers by allowing them to be promoted according to length of employment and not the quality of that employment. It removes the school reforms of 2011 that allowed schools to keep and reward good teachers.
Sen. Nesbitt voted no.
Wendzel voted no.
Bill passed and signed by governor.
Signed into law July 26, 2023: PA 115 of 2023