Critical Issues in Human
Resources
Presented by
Melissa Aguero Ramirez
HR Director
Welcome, Introductions, &
Announcements
Welcome, Introductions, Announcements
• New
• Edinburg CISD
• Sharyland ISD
• Retirements
• EPP representatives
Principal Survey
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May 1 - principals will have the principal survey link on the blue screen added to their ECOS
account via TEAL.
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Currently, HR contacts or superintendent’s designee, are able to access ECOS (green screen)
for any changes they need to make to names of principals and/or teachers. If names are not
found in the system then TEA can add them.
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Send the following information to principalsurvey@tea.state.tx.us on the teacher(s) or
principal(s) that need to be added:
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Full legal name
DOB
Last 4 digits of SS#
County/District/Campus number
Survey collection ends June 16, 2014.
For additional information please visit the Principal Survey Website where you will find FAQs
and training modules.
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http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=2147484163&menu_id=2147483671&menu_id2=794
SBEC / TEA Updates
TEA surveys
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Professional Development Audit (HB 2012, 83rd Legislative Session)
– Original Dates: March 31, 2014 – April 14, 2014
– New Dates: May 1, 2014 – May 31, 2014
– Audience/Purpose: seeking to eliminate conflicting/duplicative professional
development/initiatives
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Principal Survey to Evaluate Texas Educator Preparation Programs (SB 174, 81st
Legislative Session)
– Original Dates: April 2, 2014 – June 16, 2014
– New Dates: May 1, 2014 – June 16, 2014
– Audience/Purpose: Principals fill the survey out; providing feedback on effectiveness of EPPs
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Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey (HB 2012, 83rd Legislative Session)
– Original Dates: April 7, 2014 – May 5, 2014
– New Dates: May 1, 2014 – May 31, 2014
– Audience/Purpose: Teachers/principals, counselors & other school based professional staff;
providing feedback on teaching conditions that have been shown to be important to student
achievement and teacher retention
Generalist EC-6 and Generalist 4-8 test
Update
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House Bill (HB) 2012, 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2013,
 more rigorous examinations are being developed for the new Generalist certificates that will
independently assess the four core subject areas: English Language Arts and Reading,
Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
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Slated for implementation in January 2015.
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Educational Testing Service (ETS) working on procedures to allow candidates
that pass subject areas of the new Generalist tests to retain that passing
performance and only be required to retake sections on which they are not
successful. More information about this process will be shared as it becomes
available.
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Current Generalist EC-6 and Generalist 4-8 tests administered through August
2015.
 will have two additional years to use the passing results;
 all remaining requirements for those certificates must be completed by August 31, 2017.
 An application and a recommendation must be received by October 30, 2017, in order to
issue the current Generalist EC-6 and Generalist 4-8 certificates
Clarification on Bilingual Target Language Proficiency
Test (BTLPT) and TeXES Supplemental Tests
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Impacted exams:
 Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test (BTLPT) and
 any of the TExES Supplemental tests (Bilingual, English as a Second Language,
Gifted and Talented, and Special Education)
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need further clarification in State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC)
rule
 There will be opportunities to provide feedback on the proposed revisions as
well as testimony at board meetings.
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Until further notice from the agency, educator preparation programs
and school districts should advise candidates that while the BTLPT and
TExES Supplemental tests are not required for issuance of the
Probationary Certificate and/or emergency permit, the testing
requirements remain in place for issuance of the five-year Standard
Certificate
Process for Formal Name Change Requests
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Process to submit a change or correction of name, gender or date of birth requires
individuals to email the following documents along with a daytime telephone
number:
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1. Current state driver’s license or state ID
2. Last four digits of social security number
3. Previous name
4. Out-of-country educators who do not hold a state-issued driver’s license may submit a copy
of a current passport
– 5. A current email address and valid daytime telephone number.
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Individuals should scan documents and email them to:
namechange@tea.state.tx.us or mail the documents to TEA-CRT, 5th Floor, 1701
North Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701. Please allow 7 to 10 business days for
processing.
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Test takers are advised to request and receive verification that name changes have
been processed prior to test registration. If names on ID documents, admission
tickets and the test center roster do not match, test takers may not be able to test.
No Child Left Behind Update
• 6th grade = Secondary teacher
– Effective immediately
• Use secondary method for HQ determination
• “This change is solely to add flexibility to HQ
determinations. It takes nothing away. An EC-6 test
still makes you HQ for EC-6 subjects. 4-8 still works for
4-8. 1-8 never worked for 7 or 8, and it still
doesn’t. But it did work for 6th, and it still does.”
– No changes to current submission required
– Forms will be updated for 14-15
Institution of Higher Education –
Paraprofessional Requirements
1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation
from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent
of such a certificate;
2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education
beyond secondary education;
3) provides an educational program for which the institution awards a
bachelor’s degree or provides not less than a two-year program that is
acceptable for full credit toward such a degree;
4) is a public or other non-profit institution; and
5) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or,
if not so accredited, is an institution that has been granted pre-accreditation
by such an agency or association that has been recognized by the Secretary
for the granting of pre-accreditation status, and the Secretary has
determined that there is satisfactory assurance that the institution will meet
the accreditation standards of such an agency or association within a
reasonable time.
NCLB: Section 9101(24)
See Handout for
list of For-Profit
Institutes!
SB9 update
• Email from DPS-Luz
(Diaz) Dove 3/11/14
• Preparation for FBI
National Rap Back
feature
• Online training/testing
at www.cjisonline.com
• Must complete within
90 days
Covered contractors
• School contractors hired 1/1/08 or after who
meet the following criteria must be
fingerprinted:
– Work on a contract for services;
– Have continuing duties related to the contract;
and
– Have direct contact with students.
Contractor/District responsibilities
• Contractor should certify to the school district or
charter school that they are compliant with
fingerprinting their employees.
• Districts may subscribe to the records of
contractors/subcontractors employees that are
subject to fingerprinting.
• District should unsubscribe to records in the FACT
Clearinghouse when the contract or the
employment has terminated.
Independent School Contractors
• If they are the one and only provider of the
services, they should be now printed with the
GENERIC FAST PASS
• Contractors that have employees and need an
account still need to contact DPS.
DPS Contact info
• Contractors must contact DPS to be set up
with a secure site account.
Access and Dissemination Bureau
Texas Department of Public Safety
Crime Records Service
P. O. Box 149322
Austin, Texas 78714-9322
Email: FACT@txdps.state.tx.us
Phone: (512) 424-2365
Employee or Contractor?
• Speech/language pathologists can be hired as
independent contractors?
• Game workers are independent contractors
and can be paid directly by the athletic
department?
• The district can hire students as independent
contractors to paint lockers during the
summer?
Courtesy Todd Weidner, IRS
(Finance Advisory Council 3/21/14)
Order of Leave Usage
courtesy TASB HR Exchange
• TEC 22.03 – “a district may not restrict the order
in which an employee may use the state minimum
personal leave and any additional personal leave
provided by the school district”
• June 2013 Commissioner of Education decision
• Board policy DEC Local – order of leave if
employee doesn’t designate otherwise
• Leave must be for intended use though
• State does NOT restrict district from requiring CT
to be used first since CT is not a form of leave
Records Retention Schedule
• Minimum retention periods for records normally placed in personnel and
payroll files.
• Incorporate the periods established by the Texas State Library and
Archives Commission (TSLAC) or prescribed by federal and state law, rule,
or regulation.
• Board policy CPC Legal
• Local record control schedule must meet these minimum retention
periods.
• Information on records management requirements is available on the
Texas State Library Web Site (http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/).
Coming Events and Announcements
• Bilingual and BTLPT Review Session
Coming Events and Announcements
Teacher Appreciation Week
May 5 – 9, 2014
• Region One Educator Job Fair
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June 5, 2014
• Take our Daughters & Sons to work day
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June 9, 2014
http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=936
• Substitute Teacher Certification Academy
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Creditable Years of Service workshop
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June 9th and 12th
June 10th from 8:30 – 34:30
Workshop # 42948
Administrator’s Academy of Legal Issues
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July 31 or August 2, 2014
Texas Teacher of the Year
http://www.tasanet.org/page/69
• Due to Region One ESC (HR office)
– 5 p.m. on Friday, June 13, 2014
• ENCOURAGE electronic submission
– Application
– Picture
• 2 district representatives (1 Elem / 1 Sec)
• Clarifications:
– 2 year commitment
– FT employees; can be PT teacher (minimum 4 hours/day) BUT other
duties NOT administrative
TASPA News
• TASPA Summer Conference (www.taspa.org)
• July 16th – 18th
• Summer Law Conference (Schwarz & Eichelbaum)
• July 16th from 1 – 5:00
NEW Location!!!
Westin Austin Hotel at the Domain
11301 Domain Dr.
Austin, Texas 78758
TASPA News contd.
• Documentation Workshop 8/5/14
• New member login
Comments, Concerns, and Solutions
• Update on
• Back to School Trainings
• Substitute teachers
• New teacher orientations
• Mentor teacher training
• Webinar:
Strategies for Winning Unemployment Compensation
Hearings: Are you prepared?