Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

This bill requires each LEA to offer its employees the opportunity to volunteer to participate in a working group that will collect, review, and report suggestions received from employees on how the LEA can improve its goals, operations, and outcomes. An employee who volunteers to serve as part of the working group must receive in-service credit for the time the employee served as part of the working group. <br /> <br /> This bill authorizes an employee of the LEA to submit a written suggestion to the working group anonymously. The working group must accept written suggestions on how to improve the LEA that are submitted by an employee of the LEA, except for suggestions regarding salary and benefits. <br /> <br /> This bill requires that, if an employee of an LEA submits a suggestion to the working group and the content of the suggestion requires that the suggestion be reported pursuant to a policy adopted by the LEA, then the working group must submit the suggestion in accordance with that policy. <br /> <br /> The working group is required to annually compile the written suggestions into a report and to submit the report to the LEA's director of schools and local board of education. The LEA's director of schools and the local school board are required to, jointly, do the following: <br /> <br /> (1) Address each written suggestion identified in the report as necessary, as determined by the director and the local board; and <br /> <br /> (2) Notify the working group of how the director and the local board intends to address, or why the director and local board will not address, each written suggestion identified in the report.<br /> <br /> All documents created for the purposes of this bill must adhere to applicable privacy laws.<br />