State Board Seeks Comments on Proposed Regulations Affecting Evaluations of Teachers and Principals

4 AAC 04, Professional content and performance standards, and 4 AAC 19, Evaluation of Professional Employees. The proposal would amend the chapters to specify the cultural standards that apply to teachers in the professional content and performance standards, and to amend the purpose, scope, procedures, confidentiality procedures, and reporting of districts’ evaluations of teachers and administrators. You may comment on the proposed regulation changes, including the potential costs to private persons of complying with the proposed changes, by submitting written comments to Commissioner’s Office, Department of Education & Early Development, Attn: Regulations Review, 801 West Tenth Street, Suite 200, P.O. Box 110500, Juneau, Alaska 99811-0500. Comments may also be submitted via fax, (907) 465-4156, or via the Internet, at http://education.alaska.gov/regs/comment.cfm. Comments must be received no later than 4 p.m., November 2, 2012. Oral comments may be submitted at a hearing to be held on December 6, 2012, at the Anchorage School District Board Room, 5530 E. Northern Lights Blvd., Anchorage, AK. This hearing will begin at 8:10 a.m. and might be extended to accommodate those present before 7:55 a.m. who did not have an opportunity to comment. Persons may also comment at the oral hearing via the following Legislative Information Offices: Anchorage, Barrow, Bethel, Fairbanks, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Mat-Su, Nome, and Sitka.