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From the ECS State Policy Database
2006 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2006. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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State Status/Date Level Summary
+ Accountability
+ Accountability--Accreditation
- Accountability--Measures/Indicators
LAAdopted 11/2006P-12Transition made to new accountability system that includes iLEAP and Graduation Index. Page 1: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.301 and 303
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

LAAdopted 11/2006P-12Adjusts accountability policy to more effectively address conditions imposed by the hurricanes of 2005 and implementation of a new testing program. Page 2 of 67: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.301 and 4527
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2006P-12Deletes certain items from the list of school conditions for which assessments are required to be included in the school accountability report card, including the quality of school instruction and leadership, the degree to which pupils are prepared to enter the workforce, and whether the school qualifies for the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires each school district to make it most recent report care available through the Internet or hard copies by a specified date each year.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1510_bill_20060831_enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 1510
Source: California Legislature

CAAdopted 08/2006P-12Amends rules relating to high priority schools grant program. Provides clarification regarding the use of valid APIs in the determination of significant growth, outlines the process of determining positive API growth for schools without a valid API in one or two years, and defines criteria to demonstrate academic growth equivalent to significant growth for schools without a valid API.
Title 5; Division 1; Ch. 2; Subchapter 4; Article 1.6
CALIFORNIA 17211
http://government.westlaw.com/linkedslice/default.asp?Action=TOC&RS=GVT1.0&VR=2.0&SP=CCR-1000


Title: Title 5 CCR Sections 1030.7, 1030.8
Source: California Rules

LAAdopted 08/2006P-12Designed to address the impact of natural disasters on schools/districts ability to meet the objectives of the accountability system. Creates one-year waiver from accountability for "severe impact" schools and districts, as defined in rule. Also establishes provisions for severe impact schools following a one-year disaster waiver; directs the department of education to provide specific entry and exit codes for students displaced by natural disaster; establishes assessment and graduation rate indices for displaced students in limited impact schools; and offers schools and districts impacted by a natural disaster a one year exclusion from the subgroup component in accountability. Pages 1-3 of 55: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0608/0608RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.Chapter 45
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov

IASigned into law 06/2006P-12Directs each local board to annually develop, maintain, and distribute a financial report. Provides that the objective of the financial report shall be to facilitate public access to a variety of information and statistics relating to the education funding received by the school district, enrollment and employment figures, and additional information.
Requires the financial report to contain, at a minimum, information on:

a. All property tax levies, income surtaxes, and local option sales taxes in place in the school district, listed by type of levy, rate, amount, duration, and notification of the maximum rate and amount limitations permitted by statute.
b. The amount of funding received on a per pupil basis through the operation of the school finance formula, and from any other state appropriation or state funding source.
c. Federal funding received per student or teacher population targeted to receive the funds, and any other federal grants or funding received by the district.
d. Teacher and administrator minimum, maximum, and average salary paid by the district, and the percentage and dollar increase under teacher and administrator salary and benefits settlement agreements.
e. Teacher and administrator health insurance and other alternative health benefit information, including the monthly premium, the percentage of the premium paid by the district, and the percentage of the premium paid by a teacher or administrator for single and family insurance.
f. Teacher and administrator employment statistics, including the annual number of licensed full-time and part-time teachers and administrators employed by the school district during the preceding five years, and including the number of teachers and administrators no longer employed by the district, and new hires.
g. Student enrollment levels during the preceding five years, including regular enrollment, special education enrollment, and enrollment adjustments made pursuant to supplementary weighting.
h. Such additional information as the school district may determine.

Requires copies of a district's financial report for the previous school year to be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the school district must either distribute or post written copies of the financial report at specified locations throughout the school district.

Provides that, prior to certifying any levy by board approval, or submitting a levy for voter approval, local boards must facilitate public access to a complete listing of all outstanding levies within the school district by rate, amount, duration, and the applicable maximum levy limitations. Requires that the information on outstanding levies be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year, and updated prior to board approval or submission for voter approval of any levy during the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the district must either distribute or post written copies of the listing at specified locations throughout the district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 14-15
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us

FLSigned into law 05/2006P-12Makes revisions to school grade provisions, such as the inclusion of information for students receiving a special diploma and grades for K-3 and alternative schools.

Each school that has students who are tested and included in the school grading system, except an alternative school that receives a school-improvement rating pursuant to s. 1008.341, will receive a school grade; however, an alternative school may choose to receive a school grade under this section in lieu of a school-improvement rating. Additionally, a school that serves any combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 which does not receive a school grade because its students are not tested and included in the school grading system will receive the school grade designation of a K-3 feeder pattern school identified by the Department of Education and verified by the school district. A school feeder pattern exists if at least 60 percent of the students in the school serving a combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 are scheduled to be assigned to the graded school.

A school's grade will be based on a combination of: 1. Student achievement scores, including achievement scores for students seeking a special diploma. 2. Student learning gains as measured by annual FCAT assessments in grades 3 through 10; learning gains for students seeking a special diploma, as measured by an alternate assessment tool, must be included not later than the 2009-2010 school year. 3. Improvement of the lowest 25th percentile of students in the school in reading, math, or writing on the FCAT, unless these students are exhibiting satisfactory performance.

Effective with the 2005-2006 school year, the achievement scores and learning gains of eligible students attending alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services will be used to determine the home school's grade. If an alternative school chooses to be graded pursuant to this section, student performance data for eligible students will not be included in the home school's grade but will be included only in the calculation of the alternative school's grade. School districts must require collaboration between the home school and the alternative school in order to promote student success.

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 45)
Source: Florida Legislature

COSigned into law 04/2006P-12Concerns measuring public school effectiveness; identifies the schools that receive the governor's distinguished improvement awards; instructs the technical advisory panel on the measurement of longitudinal academic growth to determine the method by which to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of student academic growth in a school year toward state standards for proficiency.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/b89455312407ef2a872570bd0083a02c?OpenDocument&Click=872570040059C649.8975551e51fa01d087256dd30080e1d5/$Body/1.2
Title: H.B. 1109
Source: Colorado Legislature

FLAdopted 04/2006P-12Reviews the current school grading calculation to explore the inclusion of other criteria and/or make current criteria more rigorous. Measures the progress of students and schools in the state. FLORIDA 30430
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-1-11.htm#6A-1.09981
Title: FAC 6A-1.09981
Source: Florida Rules

FLAdopted 03/2006P-12Includes the science grade-level scale scores for each achievement level for use in reporting student proficiency levels in science as part of the student achievement testing program known as the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). FLORIDA 30220
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-1-8.htm#6A-1.09422
Title: FAC 6A-1.09422
Source: Florida Board of Education

INSigned into law 03/2006P-12Requires each school corporation (district) to conduct an informational count on May 1, 2007, May 1, 2008, and May 1, 2009 -- in the same manner and with the same standards as eligible pupils are counted to determine current ADM. The department must report the information obtained in the informational count to the:
(1) governor; (2) members of the education roundtable; and (3) executive director of the legislative services agency not later than thirty (30) days after the department receives the informational count reports for the year from all school corporations and transferee corporations. From the fiscal note: The bill specifies that the informational counts should include the following information:

1. A comparison between the number of eligible pupils on the informational count date and the number of eligible pupils in the current ADM.
2. Using a coding system developed by the Department of Education, the number (to the extent known by the school corporation or transferee corporation) of eligible pupils dropping out or otherwise withdrawing from the school corporation or transferee corporation after the date of the current ADM count, grouped by the reason or reasons for withdrawal from school.
3. Using a coding system developed by the Department: a. the number of suspensions and expulsions occurring after the date of the current ADM count, grouped by the reason or reasons for each suspension and expulsion; and b. the number and types of alternative educational placements that were provided or offered to suspended and expelled eligible pupils in each group.
4. The number of tuition transfer students accepted by a transferee corporation after the date of the current ADM count.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/SE/SE0173.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.in.gov/legislative/bills

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