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S 4375

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Leroy Comrie

Extends a pause on collecting new SGO and administrator goals data for educator evaluations, using existing data until NJDOE reg updates are readopted.

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Bill Summary · S 4375

Note on scope: the document content you provided concerns educator evaluations (a statutory pause on collecting student growth objective and administrator‑goals data). This summary treats S.4375A as the educator‑evaluation bill described in the Committee Statement and reprint materials (not the arbitration‑related title that appears in the header).

Summary — S.4375 (Print No. 4375A)

Title (per bill text): An Act concerning educator evaluations and amending P.L.2024, c.14.

Purpose

Extend and expand a temporary pause on collecting certain educator evaluation data (student growth objective — SGO — data and administrator goals data) until the State updates the regulatory framework (N.J.A.C. 6A:10) following recommendations of the New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force (report issued Sept. 30, 2024). The pause is intended to maintain evaluation stability while potential revisions to evaluation procedures are completed.

Key provisions

  • Extends the statutory pause (originally established by P.L.2024, c.14) so that in 2024‑25 and each subsequent school year the State and districts will not collect new SGO data or new administrator goals data until the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C. 6A:10 (the Dept. of Education regulation chapter on annual evaluations).
  • For evaluations during the pause period, districts shall use existing SGO/administrator goals data from the most recent year in which the educator completed those items.
  • Exceptions requiring new SGOs/administrator goals and data collection even during the pause:
    • Educators in their first year of employment in a district.
    • Educators without any pre‑existing SGO or administrator goals record.
    • Non‑tenured educators.
  • New opt‑in rule: An educator who is otherwise exempt (i.e., not required to complete annual SGOs/goals under the pause) may voluntarily complete new SGOs or administrator goals for one year; the scores will be applied to the educator’s summative evaluation for that year and subsequent years until readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10, unless the educator later requests another opportunity. Educators must notify their supervisor and principal in writing by September 30 of the school year in which they will complete new SGOs/goals.
  • Tenure timing carve‑out (committee amendment): An educator (teacher, principal, assistant principal, or vice‑principal) who is eligible to attain tenure on or before February 15 in a given school year is not required to set SGOs or administrator goals or collect new SGO/administrator goals data for that school year; evaluators will use the most recent existing data. Educators eligible for tenure after February 15 must set SGOs/goals and collect data in that school year.
  • Implementation clause: When N.J.A.C.6A:10 next expires and is readopted, in the following first full school year districts must implement data‑collection guidelines consistent with any laws/rules resulting from the Task Force’s findings.
  • Effective date: Immediately upon enactment.

Who is affected

  • Directly: public school teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice‑principals in New Jersey; school districts and local supervisors; education evaluators.
  • Indirectly: students, parents, and district human resources/tenure processes due to reliance on prior data in evaluations.

Procedural/timeline aspects & status

  • Introduced in Senate: May 12, 2025; reported favorably by Senate Education Committee with committee amendments on same date.
  • Committee amendments added the Feb. 15 tenure eligibility carve‑out.
  • Bill text states the pause continues until the next expiration and subsequent readoption of N.J.A.C.6A:10.
  • Legislative actions: Substituted by A5077 (2R) on June 2, 2025; identical to Assembly Bill A5077 (1R) as reported by the committee.
  • Effective immediately if enacted.

Potential impacts / considerations

  • Short term: reduces burden on many educators by deferring new SGO/administrator goals data collection; uses most recent existing data for summative evaluations.
  • May affect evaluation comparability and data currency because evaluations will rely on older student‑growth or administrator‑goal measures until regulations are readopted.
  • Protects educators approaching tenure deadlines (on/before Feb. 15) from being required to produce new SGO/admin data in that tenure year.
  • Districts must maintain administrative processes for exceptions (first‑year staff, non‑tenured) and for educator opt‑ins (Sept. 30 notification).
  • Subsequent regulatory changes recommended by the Task Force will drive when and how the pause ends and new data collection resumes.

Related/companion measures

  • Companion: A5077 (substituted for S.4375 on 2025‑06‑02).
  • Prior‑session / related bills listed in legislative history (e.g., S.3581, S.2748, A.5248, etc.).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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