From the ECS State Policy Database Accountability--Reporting Results

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. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary NC Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Alternate ACT/PLAN for Certain Students H.B. 587 Requires the administration of an alternate to the ACT or an alternate to the PLAN precursor test to the ACT to certain students with severe disabilities. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that parents of students enrolled in all public schools,... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Student Data S.B. 1447 Broadens the Data Governance Commission's guidelines to include the form and format of data elements that are required for districts, charters, and Joint Technical Education Districts (JTEDs) to submit. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/51leg/1r/laws/0251.pdf... More... KS Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Amends Kansas Uniform Financial Accounting and Reporting Act S.B. 171 SB 171 amends the Kansas Uniform Financial Accounting and Reporting Act. Requires each school district and the Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) to report on their respective websites the budget summary for the current school year, as well as actual expend... More... NV Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Accountability A.B. 460 Requires the state department of education to ensure that the statewide system of accountability complies with federal mandates under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Establishes certain requirements for the statewide system of accountabilit... More... OK Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Calculation of School Grades H.B. 1658 Directs the state board to establish the lowest minimum sample size necessary to meet the requirements of statistical reliability and prevention of the unlawful release of personally identifiable student data - when calculating grades of school performance. Mo... More... IN Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Absenteeism S.B. 338 Requires the department of education to provide resources and guidance to school corporations concerning evidence-based practices and effective strategies to reduce absenteeism. Makes changes to the definition of: (1) chronic absenteeism; and (2) habitual trua... More... WV Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 High Quality Educational Programs H.B. 3157 Eliminates over 20 accountability and reporting requirements. Reaffirms Goal 2020 Educational Goals related to curriculum and instruction; statewide assessment; talent acquisition; and goal-aligned funding incentives for districts and schools. The Legislative ... More... TN Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 District Accountability Reporting S.B. 158 Directs the department to require an LEA to obtain a formal written proof that a child who has moved out-of-state has enrolled in a school or program leading to the award of a regular high school diploma in order not to count such student as a dropout. http://... More... AR Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 School Improvement S.B. 1100 Amends school reporting to include student academic performance and growth on state-mandated assessments, as well as graduation rates for secondary schools. Repeals current school rating system. Provides performance funds based on a per pupil rate for district... More... OK Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Academic Performance Data H.B. 1385 Deletes references to the Academic Performance Index, replacing with "academic performance data" and changes certain references to low performing and high challenge schools. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20ENR/hB/HB1385%20ENR.PDF... More... WV Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 School/District Efficiency S.B. 359 Outlines alternative school and district measurements to ensure that all students receive thorough, efficient education. Delineates roles of schools, districts, and state board of education. Requires state board to reform the statewide assessment program and d... More... MS Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 A-F Accountability System. S.B. 2396 Revises and implements a single "A" through "F" school and school district accountability system complying with applicable federal and state requirements. Aligns state department of education and the state school and school district accountability system with ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 School Performance H.B. 1999/S.B. 1207 Requires the Board of Education, by October 1, 2015 to report individual school perfromance using a grading system in addition to the standards of accreditation. Bases the grading system on both state and federal accountability requirements and an A to F gradi... More... LA Adopted 12/2012 P-12 School Performance Categories LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 11, 13 Chapter 11, "School Performance Categories," provides that beginning with the release of 2012-2013 school accountability data, schools will receive A-F letter grades based on the school performance score (SPS) (§1101). Also calls for the identification of scho... More... LA Adopted 12/2012 P-12 State Annual Reporting LAC 28:LXXXIII, §2901, Chapter 31 Amends requirements for board of elementary and secondary education's annual rep0orting on state progress in reaching Louisiana's 2014 goal. Amends various provisions of Chapter 31, "Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure." Pages 63-64 of 276: http:/... More... CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 Revising Academic Performance Index (API) S.B. 1458 From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to develop and implement a specified program of school quality review to complement the Academic Performance Index (API), if an appropriation for this purpose is made in the annual budget a... More... MO Signed into law 07/2012 P-12 Gifted Education S.B. 599- Gifted Education School districts must include in their annual school accountability report card whether the school district currently has a state-approved gifted education program and the percentage and number of students being served by the program. http://www.senate.mo.gov... More... OH Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Report Card for Joint Vocational School Districts and Other Career-Technical Planning Districts S.B. 316 - Report Card for Joint Vocational School Districts & Other Career-Technical Planning Districts Defines "career-technical planning district". Directs the state board, in consultation with the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, any office within the office of the governor concerning workforce development, the Ohio association of career and technical... More... OH Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Public Accountability Report Card at Student Enrollment S.B. 316 - Public Accountability Report Card at Student Enrollment Provides that when a student enrolls in a school operated by a school district, a school official with responsibility for admissions must provide the student's parent, during the admissions process, with a copy of the most recent public accountability report c... More... MS Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Changes School and District Accreditation Rating Terminology S.B. 2776 Authorizes and directs the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to change the performance level terminology for schools and school districts to "A", "B", "C", "D" and "F" based on established benchmarks of student achievement and grow... More... AL Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 School and District Grading, School Awards, Funding Flexibility H.B. 588 Establishes legislative findings. Directs the state superintendent of education to develop a school grading system for schools and districts, using an A, B, C, D, F framework. In developing the system, directs the superintendent to seek input from specified st... More... MS Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Authorizes Consolidation of Low-Performing Schools and School Districts in Emergency Situations S.B. 2737 Relating to low-performing schools and school districts: Provides that if a local school district violates accreditation standards determined to be the basis for immediate withdrawal of accreditation, there shall be a show cause hearing conducted by the commis... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Reporting School Rankings H.B. 2622 Prohibits a school, charter school or school district from displaying a classification or ranking received from any public or private entity if the ranking or classification is no longer current, unless the date the classification or ranking was received is pr... More... CT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Department of Education Reporting on Website S.B. 458 (Sec. 88) Requires SDE to annually make the following information available on its website: 1) the statewide performance management and accountability plan required by the amended school accountability law (§ 19); 2) a list of schools ranked from lowest to hig... More... TN Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Statewide Accountability S.B. 2208 Directs commissioner of education to establish appropriate performance goals and measures for LEAs. Rewards LEAs that reach the achievement and achievement gap closure targets. Stipulates corrective action for LEAs that do not meet targets. Requires public rep... More... FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 School Improvement and Education Accountability H.B. 7127 - School Improvement and Education Accountability Requires a school improvement plan to include strategies for improving student achievement if a school has a significant student achievement gap for one or more subgroups, has not significantly decreased the percentage of students scoring below satisfactory on... More... GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 School and School System Indicators of Quality, Report Cards S.B. 410 Directs the office of student achievement to work in coordination to review, and revise as necessary, indicators of quality. Requires such review to be conducted annually, rather than biennially. Requires that school and school system indicators include financ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Education Reporting Efficiency H.B. 500 Directs the state board to determine how reporting requirements may be modified or eliminated to reduce the time district and charter school personnel spend in completing reports. Directs the state board to seek to eliminate redundancy in reporting information... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Underperforming Schools H.B. 2663 Enables a school that is assigned a letter grade of "D" for less than three consecutive years to also be assigned a letter grade of "F" if State Board of Education determines that it is not reasonably likely that the school will achieve an average level of per... More... WY Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Statewide Accountability System S.F. 57 Establishes indicators to measure student achievement and school-level performance. Stipulates that indicators will be used to create an overall school performance rating system. Details rewards and sanctions based on where schools are rated. Requires the stat... More... OR Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Task Force on Accountable Schools (Section 22) H.B. 4014 Establishes and sets membership for the Task Force on Accountable Schools to develop a plan to improve accountability practices for schools and make recommendations. The task force is to recommend: (a) A new student summative assessment to be used in Oregon s... More... NM Adopted 01/2012 P-12 Review of Public School Reporting Requirements H.M. 13 Requests a work group to review the public school reporting requirements. http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/12%20Regular/memorials/house/HM013.pdf... More... IL Signed into law 01/2012 P-12 State, District and School Report Cards H.B. 605 Directs the state board of education, through the state superintendent of education, by October 31, 2013 and each October 31 thereafter, to prepare a state report card, district report cards and school report cards, and provide each district with its district ... More... MI Signed into law 12/2011 P-12 Reporting AYP Status S.B. 618 Requires the board of a schooldistrict or ISD or the board of directors of a PSA to post a notice of the adequate yearly progress (AYP) status of each school it operates on the homepage of its website, within 20 days after the board is informed of the AYP stat... More... OR Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Fiscal Accountability S.B. 27 Requires education service districts (ESDs) to prepare annual audit of district books and accounts. Authorizes Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to withhold State School Fund (SSF) distributions from ESDs if auditing deficiencies are identified. http://www.... More... NV Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Parent Involvement A.B. 224 Creates the Office of Parental Involvement and Family Engagement within the Department of Education. Describes the duties of the office, which include adopting policies and developing a list of practices designed to increase the involvement of parents and the ... More... SC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Report Cards/WorkKey Assessments/Teacher Loans H.B. 3663 Suspends the requirement that the Department of Education (DOE) provide printed copies of 2011 district and school report cards. Requires a school district or school within the district to provide parents with a link to the report cards via email or other comm... More... NV Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Accountability A.B. 138--Report Cards Revised the requirements for the reports of accountability information prepared by the State Board of Education and the board of trustees of each school district to include: (1) certain information relating to adult diplomas; and (2) reports on incidents resul... More... NV Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Accountability S.B. 35 Section 1 of this bill removes the requirement that the automated system of accountability information have the capacity to identify which paraprofessionals are assigned to provide services to individual pupils and removes the requirement that the information ... More... IN Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Charter Schools H.B. 1002 Allows charter schools to opt in to the state health insurance plans. Establishes the charter school board as a statewide sponsor of charter schools. Provides that the department of education shall provide staff to the charter school board until the board begi... More... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 School Grades H.B. 1456 Adds a new section of that that requires the assignment and reporting of school grades. Requires that grades of schools be based 33 percent upon test scores, 17 percent learning gains in reading and mathematics, 17 percent on improvement of the lowest 25th per... More... MT Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Revenues, Shared Services, Reporting S.B. 329 Excerpts from the fiscal note: SB 329, as amended, increases the basic and per-ANB entitlements for K-12 public schools by 1.1% in FY 2012 and by 0.63% in FY 2013. The bill eliminates the 0.76% growth factor on school block grants after FY 2011 and retains oil... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Financial Accountability H.B. 2421 Directs each school district to submit the following to Arizona Department of Education and, if the district maintains a website, post a link on the website to where the reports are available on the Arizona Department of Education website: (1) the school distr... More... WA Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Accountability S.B. 5184 Relating to second-class school districts and compliance reports. Permits second-class districts to submit condensed compliance reports to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Requires the OSPI to develop a condensed compliance report fo... More... ID Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Report Cards S.B. 1184 - Accountability Modifies the duties of the state department of education to include the posting of a fiscal report card on each school district and charter school on the department's internet site. Appends the Creation of Internet Based Expenditure Website data concerning ... More... AR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 School Performance Reporting S.B. 737 Requires the annual school performance report to be submitted to the Senate and the House Committees on Education. Requires the annual school performance report to be made available on the Web sites of the department of education and school districts. Requires... More... UT Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 School Grading System S.B. 59 Requires the state board of education to establish a school grading system in which a school receives a grade of A, B, C, D, or F based on the performance of the school's students on statewide assessments, and, for a high school, the graduation rate and measur... More... WY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Assessment S.F. 70--Assessment State Board of Education: --Pilot statewide benchmark adaptive assessment for school year 2011-2012 (1) Results of pilot program will be used to establish student achievement level alignment with the statewide summative assessment and performance targ... More... AK Adopted 01/2011 P-12 Assessment/Academic Indicators, Report Card to the Public and Definitions 4 AAC 06.825, 895, 899 Revises various provisions regarding the other academic indicator, including graduation rate, for school, district and state accountability. Repeals provision allowing target to be met by "any" improvement with provisions requiring differential improvement on ... More... NY Signed into law 08/2010 P-12 Comparing Apples to Apples in School Violence Reporting A.B. 11566 - Section 4 Amends provisions related to reporting violence and disruptive incidents in public schools. Repeals provision requiring commissioner to identify the schools and districts with the least and greatest incidence of violent and disruptive incidents, and the least ... More... TX Adopted 07/2010 P-12 Performance-Based Monitoring Analysis System 19 TAC 97.1005 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) proposes an amendment to s.97.1005, concerning accountability and performance monitoring. The section describes the purpose of the Performance-Based Monitoring Analysis System (PBMAS) and manner in which school districts and ch... More... LA Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 School/District Performance Letter Grades H.B. 925 In addition to any other performance-related labels or designations assigned to schools and districts, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation with parents, teachers, school administrators, and other education stakeholders, shall... More... LA Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 High School Graduation/Droput Data S.B. 753 Requires each local public school system to post the four-year cohort graduation rate for each high school and for the system as a whole on its Internet website. Districts must send a written notice to the parent or other legal guardian of high school students... More... OH Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Student Health S.B. 210, Part I Establishes the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Council. Directs the council to: (1) Monitor progress in improving student health and wellness (2) Make periodic policy recommendations to the state board of education on ways to improve the nutritional sta... More... OK Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 School District Transparency Act S.B. 1633 Creates the school district transparency act; requires school district expenditure information be made available on state department of education website. Requires the Department to make the data available on its website within 120 days of transmission of the ... More... FL Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 School Grades H.B. 1255 - Sec. 6, 29 Amends the formula for calculating school grades to include end-of-course (EOC) assessments taken by middle school students and middle school student attainment of industry certification. Provides that student performance on statewide assessments determine sch... More... TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Report to Include Programs Offered in Detention Facilities S.B. 2198 Requires the Commissioner of Education to include a description of short and long-term educational programs that are offered to juveniles in detention facilities and the number of juveniles served in the Commissioner's annual report. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/... More... ID Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Fiscal Accountability H.B. 699 The purpose of this legislation is to provide public transparency for the spending of Idaho's public school districts and other education providers. By the end of 2010, the legislation requires that each school district with over 300 students to post on the in... More... UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Postsec. Money-Saving Measures H.B. 166 Section 1: Directs the state board, by December 31, 2010, to review mandates provided for in administrative rule, to determine whether some could be waived to remove funding pressures on public schools temporarily. Sections 2-4: Eliminates the requirement to... More... WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Public Reporting S.B. 6604 Relates to school finance; provides that school districts must comply with building energy requirements only to the extent funds are available; provides that online access to certain information for parents concerning vaccines, child abuse, and other matters s... More... UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 State Reporting of Class Size and Charter School Funding S.B. 56 Modifies the state superintendent's annual report of the public school system by: (1) requiring reporting of data on average class sizes calculated in accordance with state board of education rule; (2) modifying the reporting of pupil-teacher ratios and (3) de... More... VA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Workplace Readiness Skills S.B. 630 Requires each local school board to include in its annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who passed the state Workplace Readiness Skills assessment. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB630ER+pdf... More... VA Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Reporting on Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment H.B. 566 Requires each local school board to include in its annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who passed Virginia's Workplace Readiness Skills assessment. This number is in addition to the current related reporting requirements of the numbe... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Reporting, Accountability and Data S.B. 1977 - Reporting, Accountability and Data Requires teacher supply and demand reports to be published every three years instead of annually. Deletes provision that adequate yearly progress for students with disabilities must be based on students' individual education plans. Provides that schools and di... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Financial Reporting and Minimum Standards H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial information to the public. Requires districts and educational service center boards to report revenues and expenditures ... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Statewide Education Management Information System H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0714 Amends types of data that must be maintained in the education management information system (EMIS http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?page=2&TopicRelationID=1281). Adds that EMIS must include data on achievement levels on college ... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Performance Indicators H.B. 1 - Section 3302.01 and 3302.02 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: 3302.01: Amends performance index score to reflect combination of reading and writing tests into one English language arts test. 3302.02: Eliminates the requirement that there be a minimum of 17 performance indicators... More... LA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Reporting Requirements for School Funding H.B. 821 Requires districts to provide uniform data collection and reporting for how finance formula funds are spent on certain students and activities, including: at-risk students, career and technical education course units, special education students other than gift... More... WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Native American Charter School A.B. 75 Provides that if a school board enters into an agreement with an American Indian tribe to establish a charter school, the board must, upon request, distribute to the parent or guardian of each student in the school a school and school district performance repo... More... CT Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 School Report Cards S.B. 940 Adds truancy data to annual school report cards. The bill spells out all data that schools are required to report on an annual basis to the commissioner of education. The bill also addresses the reduction of duplicate reports by the department of information t... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 District Reporting Requirements H.B. 3041 Directs the state education agency to develop and maintain a comprehensive schedule that addresses all district reporting requirements (including those imposed by entities other than the state education agency), and that specifies the date by which a school di... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Student Assessment Data Portal H.B. 3 - Section 48 and 49 Deletes provision that education Internet portal provides secure access to student assessment data. Amends 32.258 to direct the state education agency to create a student assessment data portal for use by school districts, teachers, parents, students and publi... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Reporting Requirements H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part VIII (Parent and Educator Reports, Campus and District Report Cards) Creates new Subchapter J, "Parent and Educator Reports." Provides that in addition to the indicators adopted under Section 39.053, the commissioner must adopt indicators of the quality of learning for the purpose of preparing parent and educator reports, and r... More... CO Adopted 05/2009 P-12 Data Reporting for School Accreditation 1 CCR 301-67 Expands mandatory school age to match current law and revises timelines for implementation of the on-time graduation and completion rates. http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300%20Department%20of%20Education&agencyID=109&a... More... MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Student Academic Achievement and Growth H.F. 2 Requires the statewide educational accountability and reporting system to measure and separately report the adequate yearly progress of schools and the academic growth of individual students. Requires the system to include statewide measures of high and low st... More... OK Adopted 05/2009 P-12 Annual Student College Remediation Reports OAC 210:35-25-4 Requires that a high school representative annually provide for review and discussion a report for each site regarding first-year college performance and remediation of local high school graduates. ... More... OK Adopted 05/2009 P-12 Annual Student Dropout Reports to Local School Boards OAC 210:35-25-3 Requires that a school representative annually report the dropouts for each school site that serves students in Grades 7-12 to the local school board following the certification of the same data to the State Department of Education for its annual statewide dro... More... TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Parental Involvement Standards S.B. 293 Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to develop standards for parental involvement in K-12 public schools and include a report on local education agency (LEA) compliance at the district and school levels in the DOE Tennessee Education Report Card beginni... More... IA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Changes to Miscellaneous Provisions H.B. 687 Deletes several requirements for reporting (i.e., simply the number of graduates, rather than specifying that the number has to be calculated according to the NGA definition; and the number of students who graduated in past five years but were not proficient i... More... NM Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Acct. System Pilot Project and Data Collection S.B. 156 Creates an alternative school accountability system pilot project; provides for data collection and analysis; provides for periodic reports to the Governor and the Legislature. The pilot system demonstrates the usefulness of a student growth model of accountab... More... CO Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Education Data Reporting Requirements H.B. 1214 Concerns education data reporting requirements; clarifies that the Education Data Advisory Committee is directed to review the reporting requirements imposed on districts and public schools; directs the committee to inform agencies of the estimated cost to dis... More... KY Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Accountability System S.B. 1 Section 4, 5 and 7 Repeals provisions relating to rewards for successful schools. Establishes provisions to recognize schools that would have been rewarded under the former system. Repeals provision directing the state board to develop a formula for a school accountability index... More... NM Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Reporting of High School Student Results by Higher Ed. Inst. S.B. 152 Requires public post-secondary educational institutions to report annually to public high schools on freshman year outcomes of the students from those high schools; provides that information in the reports may be used by the high schools and public post-second... More... KY Adopted 02/2009 P-12 School and District Report Cards 703 KAR 5:140 Amends rules regarding content and distribution of school and district report cards. Provides that as accurate, reliable data become available from student information systems, the department of education will link school, district and state data to the school... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... NY Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. P... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Reporting of Disciplinary Actions H.B. 3321 Requires the commissioner of education to report on a semi-annual basis to the select oversight committee on education and the education committees of each house of the general assembly regarding disciplinary actions in Tennessee schools. - Amends TCA Title 37... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Publishing of Approved Budgets S.B. 376 Requires local school divisions to publish their annual budget on the local school division website. If there is no local school division website, the budget must be available in hard copy.  This bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2009. http://leg... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Strategies for Success for Students with Disabilities and Reporting Requirements on the WASL H.B. 3212 The Center for the Improvement of Student Learning (CISL) and the education ombudsman are directed to identify strategies to improve the academic success rates of students with disabilities. The CISL is also directed to provide best practices and information o... More... NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section... More... NY Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Readopts, by emergency action effective November 25, 2007, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting that added a new section 100.13 and amended 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations. http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007... More... CA Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Accountability, Report Cards A.B. 1061 Relates to the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. Deletes items from the list of school conditions for which assessments are required to be included in the school accountability report card (SARC), including the quality of instruction ... More... NY Adopted 07/2007 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. P... More... OR Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Oregon Report Card H.B. 2263C, Section 9 The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon¢s progress toward achieving the goals stated in this chapter and the Department of Education key performance measures established by the Oregon Progress Board. The Ore... More... NV Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Accountability and Technology Infrastructure S.B. 184 Revises provisions governing the annual reports of accountability and the plans to improve. Eliminate the requirement for the establishment of technical assistance partnerships. Revises provisions governing the school support teams and the recommendation of co... More... CO Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 State Report Card Requirements and Procedures H.B. 1345 Concerns modifications to school accountability reports. Spells out various proceedures and requirements related to state and No Child Left Behind school, district and state accountability report cards. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbil... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Accountability S.B. 1522 Relates to accountability and standard measurements of acceptable academic progress. Adds provisions for calculating academic gains on the AIMS test for students in grades K-12 according to statutory classification statewide, for each school district and each... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2039 Requires the Department of Education to provide a single achievement profile to schools that offer instruction in grades K-12 or a combination of the grades and requires the State Board of Education to define the size of an extremely small school that must rec... More... AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Report Cards S.B. 274 Relates to information that school districts must publish on their websites; relates to education assessment programs and the confidentiality of state-mandated tests and assessments; establishes methods for reprimanding violations of these confidentiality prov... More... NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Student Progress Reports S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 2 Provides that by July 1, 2008, a student progress report must be prepared for all students. States that the progress report must provide parents with information on their child's performance on state assessments over multiple years of testing, and must also ex... More... NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Contract for Excellence S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 12 Requires every district with at least one school currently identified as requiring academic progress or in need of improvement or in corrective action or restructuring status to prepare a contract for excellence if the district receives an increase in total fo... More... AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Reporting S.B. 274 (Accountability Provisions) Section 1: Provides for the accountability information formerly reported by the Department of Education will now be reported on each district's website. Act No. 1573. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB274.pdf... More... UT Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 School Reporting Amendments H.B. 215 Specifies how average class size shall be calculated for the purpose of reporting class size by grade and subject on annual school performance reports; specifies that a pupil-teacher ratio shall be calculated by dividing the total number of students in a grade... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2007 P-12 State Accountability System A.B. 3676 Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum public school district monitoring system, related reporting, and oversight requirements. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3676_R1.PDF... More... CA Signed into law 09/2006 P-12 Parental Information in Languages other than English A.B. 680 Relates to students whose primary language is not English. Requires the Department of Education to monitor adherence to requirements relating to parental notification in their primary language as part of its regular monitoring and review of public schools and ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 School Report Card Indicators S.B. 1510 Deletes 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 th... More... CA Signed into law 08/2006 P-12 Reporting Exit Exam Results S.B. 1592 Requires the superintendent of public instruction to report on the number and percentage of pupils who failed to receive a diploma of graduation from high school in 2006 due to the failure of those pupils to pass the high school exit examination, aggregated by... More... DE Adopted 07/2006 P-12 Accountability and AYP for Schools and Districts 14 DAC 103 Enables school districts to choose to either track students back to the school of residence or to make the school that is providing the instruction the accountability school for students in an intradistrict intensive learning center or intradistrict special sc... More... KY Adopted 06/2006 P-12 School and District Report Cards 703 KAR 5:140 Establishes rules regarding the standards for a school and district report card. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/140.htm... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 District Financial Reports S.B. 2272 - Section 14-15 Directs 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 re... More... CO Vetoed 05/2006 P-12 School Performance Ratings S.B. 69 Concerns school accountability; establishes that, if a school covers more than one school level, it shall be assigned one academic performance rating and one academic growth of students rating and receive one school accountability report. http://www.leg.state.... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School Report Cards- High School Data H.B. 7087 (Section 11) School districts and boards must provide information regarding performance of students and educational programs as required pursuant to ss. 1008.22 and 1008.385 and implement a system of school reports as required by statute and State Board of Education rule.T... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Annual Student Performance Reports H.B. 7087 (Section 40) Adds the following reporting requirements. The Department of Education must annually provide a report on the following: (a) Longitudinal performance of students in mathematics and reading. (b) Longitudinal performance of students by grade level in mathematics ... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School Report Cards H.B. 7087 (Section 46) Requires school report cards to be delivered -- not just available -- to parents. The Department of Education will annually develop, in collaboration with the school districts, a school report card to be delivered to parents throughout each school district. Th... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School Improvement Rating for Alternative Schools H.B. 7087 (Section 47) Alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services pursuant to s. 1003.53 shall receive a school-improvement rating. The school-improvement rating must identify schools as having one of the following ratings: (a) "Improving... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School Performance Grades H.B. 7087 (Section 45) Makes 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, excep... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Postsec. Community College K-20 Quality Data Improvements H.B. 7087 (Section 44) To provide data required to implement education performance accountability measures in state and federal law, the Commissioner of Education must initiate and maintain strategies to improve data quality and timeliness. All data collected from state universities... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Reporting of High Performing Schools S.B. 1270 Relates to publications and payment of claims for printing; provides for the powers and duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; provides that the superintendent may publish on the web site maintained by the department of education a list of the top... More... KY Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Postsec. High School and College Readiness Assessments S.B. 130 Section 1: Requires the state assessment system, by the 2007-2008 school year, to include: 1. A high school readiness examination to assess English, reading, math and science in grade 8; 2. A college readiness examination to assess English, reading, math and s... More... MA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Student Report Cards to Parents S.B. 2206 Describes the requirements for providing student records to parents and the information that must be included academic and other indicators. http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/st02/st02206.htm... More... IN Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 District and School Financial Management, Analysis and Reporting H.B. 1006 - Section 4 Requires the department to develop a plan to upgrade the financial management, analysis, and reporting system for school corporations (districts) and schools. Requires the plan to: (1) Provide the use of generally accepted accounting principles based on the ... More... IN Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 District Report Cards H.B. 1347 Section 7 Requires district report cards to report: --The number and percentage of students participating in the school flex program, if offered (see IC 20-30-2-2.2 http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title20/ar30/ch2.html) --The number of students who have dropped o... More... WI Signed into law 12/2005 P-12 Notification of Right to Request Performance Reports A.B. 425 From Legislative Council Memo: Prior law required each school board to annually distribute, by January 1, to the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled in the school district a copy of the school district performance report (SPR) or give it to each pupil to... More... CA Signed into law 09/2005 P-12 Accountability Report Cards - Inclusion of Expenditures and Salaries S.B. 687 The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act requires each school district to develop and implement a school accountability report card. This bill would add new sections and impose a state-mandated local program by specifying reporting requir... More... TX Adopted 09/2005 P-12 Institutional Reports 19 TAC 1.17.K.17.101 From background information: Proposed amendment to 19 TAC §97.1001 would describe the state accountability rating system and adopt excerpts of the 2005 Accountability Manual, dated June 2005, into rule. The excerpts, Chapters 2-6, 9, 11-13, 16, and 17 of the 2... More... KS Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 School Finance S.B. 3 Makes changes to the School District Finance and Quality Performance Act, other school funding legislation, and enact policies relating to the state department, the Courts, and the Legislature. The bill provides for increases in Base State Aid Per Pupil (BSAPP... More... CA Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Data Reporting A.B. 110 -- Reporting Section Legislative intent: (a) Promote good data management practices with respect to education data. (b) Support the efforts of the State Department of Education to minimize data redundancy, maximize data value, and reduce the reporting burden on local educational a... More... NV Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Statewide system of accountability for school districts and public schools H.B. 154 The board of trustees of each school district and the principal of each public school must prepare an annual summary of accountability information for public dissemination. This bill changes the requirements for the annual report of accountability and expand... More... CO Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Educational Data Advisory Committee S.B. 19 Requires the state board to identify volunteer districts, boards of cooperative services and a charter school to send representatives to form the "educational data advisory committee" to work with the department to review school data reporting requirements. Re... More... CO Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Sufficient Academic Growth H.B. 1217 Modifies definition of "sufficient academic growth" for purposes of diagnostic assessment. Makes related changes to governor's distinguished improvement awards. Repeals provision requiring the state board to contract with a nationally recognized, independent a... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 School Accountability Reports and State Accreditation S.B. 214 (Section 4-6) Section 4: Repeals and reenacts 22-7-605 pertaining to the content and format of state-mandated school accountability reports. Section 5: Adds new subsection requiring the department to print selected school accountability reports in Spanish. Requires the de... More... TX Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Annual Performance Ratings H.B. 3297 From bill analysis: Under current law, public schools and school districts are given annual performance ratings by the Texas Education Agency. The four levels of performance are "exemplary", "recognized", "academically acceptable" or "academically unacceptabl... More... OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Pilot Program H.B. 1021 (multiple provisions) One section of this bill creates the Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Pilot Program. Requires interoperability with other state student data management and reporting systems; directs exploration of delivery systems for certain purposes; requires utilizati... More... OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Consolidating Reporting H.B. 1444 A new section requires the state board to study and assess ways to eliminate, reduce, consolidate, and simplify the number, type, and length of reports, data, statistics, and other information required of any school district or school district personnel by the... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 School Accountability and Crime Reporting S.B. 1044 Authorizes local boards to adopt guidelines for the standardization of the format of school accountability report cards required by section 15-746 http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/15/00746.htm&Title=15&DocType=ARS Authorizes local bo... More... KS Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2005 P-12 School Records H.B. 2247 (section 1-2) Requires districts to report expenditures by categories as directed by the department of education and requires the department to verify costs incurred by school districts providing programs required by law and the number of pupils enrolled in such programs. R... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Student Assessment Scores H.B. 2881 Concerns assessments scores for students attending the Arkansas school for mathematics, sciences and the arts of the University of Arkansas. Requires assessment scores under the Arkansas Comprehensive, Testing, Assessment and Accountability Program for assessm... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 School Board of Directors H.B. 2517 Increases from six to nine the number of hours of training that a newly elected member of a school board of directors is required to obtain following election. Specifies that every local board member who has served for at least 12 consecutive months must compl... More... GA Adopted 12/2004 P-12 Statewide Accountability GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru .04 Clarifies rules regarding the following: single statewide accountability system; accountability system definitions; accountability profiles; and accountability system awards and consequences. Single statewide accountability system: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_d... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Reporting School Performance S.B. 722 Requires the comparable improvement in academic achievement to be measured by the Academic Performance Index for all numerically significant pupil subgroups within a school, including ethnic subgroups, socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, English language l... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Nonpublic Schools Serving Special Education Students A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions) Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that is associated with a licensed children's institution, there be a... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 State Reimbursement for the School Accountability Report Card and the STAR Program A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions) SEC. 19: Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining an elementary or secondary school to develop and cause to be implemented for each school in the school district a school accountability report card that includes specified info... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Accountability Report Card: Requirements A.B. 2596 Deletes the requirement, under the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, that the School Accountability Report Card include information on the degree to which pupils are prepared to enter the workforce and whether the school qualifies for... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Review of Audit Exceptions S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) SEC. 13: Requires the county superintendent of schools to include in the review of audit exceptions those audit exceptions related to use of instructional materials program funds, teacher misassignments, and information reported on the school accountability re... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Annual Report on Status of Low-Performing Schools S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Requires the county superintendent to annually present a report to the governing board of each school district under his or her jurisdiction and to the board of supervisors of the county describing the state of the schools in the county and of his or her offic... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 District Compliance Audits S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) SEC. 2: Requires a district compliance audit to include verification of the reporting requirements for the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials, teacher misassignments, and the accuracy of information reported on the school accountability repor... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 School Accountability Report Cards S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other instructional materials for each pupil, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassign... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Public School Performance Accountability Program:Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Index S.B. 1419 Existing law establishes the Public School Performance Accountability Program which consists of the Academic Performance Index (API), the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. The API measure... More... AK Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 School Performance Reports H.B. 405 Relates to reports on school and school district performance; relates to accountability of public schools and school districts. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0405Z&session=23... More... CO Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 P-12 Accountability for Alternative Campuses 1 CCR 301-57 Clarifies rules regarding the administration of accountability for alternative campuses and processes for being designated an alternative campus. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/brdbook/2004/JULY%202004/VIII-A-1as.pdf... More... GA Adopted 07/2004 P-12 Statewide Accountability; Definitions; School Profiles GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04 Clarifies rules regarding statewide accountability, applicable definitions, school profiles, and awards and consequences; creates a single statewide accountability system consistent with state and federal law; provides valid, reliable accountability determinat... More... NH Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Charter Schools S.B. 421 Specifies that it is the purpose of the state charter school statutes to encourage the establishment of public charter schools that meet the needs and interests of pupils, parents, communities, regions and the state as a whole. Adds that proposed charter schoo... More... CO Signed by Governor 06/2004 P-12 Measuring Student Academic Growth H.B. 1433 Requires the Department of Education, no later than 15 days after the effective date of the act, to choose a public or private entity to develop a model to calculate students' annual academic growth for diagnostic purposes; directs the department to calculate ... More... VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Substantial Amendments to the Standards of Learning H.B. 1014 Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for Eng... More... CO Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Parental Questions On School Reports H.B. 1217 Concerns changes to the school accountability report to include a page that specifies certain information a parent may request from a school. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/... More... VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Standards of Quality H.B. 1254 Requires the state board to include requirements for the reporting of the Standards of Learning assessment scores and averages for each year as part of the board's requirements relating to the School Performance Report Card. Such scores must be disaggregated f... More... VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Standards of Learning S.B. 416 Requires the state board, in consultation with the chairpersons of the eight regional superintendents' study groups, to provide for timely review of the Standards of Learning test scores by school divisions for coding and other errors and prompt reporting to t... More... KY Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 School Accountability H.B. 176 Amends KRS 158.6455 to require that a student be enrolled in a specific school for at least 100 days prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period being counted in the school's accountability index. A student's test scores must be counted in the acc... More... CO Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 State School Accountability Reports H.B. 1124 Changes the state school accountability report to add information on adequate yearly progress; adds information on achievement levels for various subgroups of students. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/C2D25CD76E178B3687256DE40060AE49?... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Reporting Test Results H.B. 1132 Allows the Department of Education to extend the deadline for test results if the deadline substantially increases the cost of administration of the tests or compromises the validity of the test results. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/publi... More... AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Student Assessment and Educational Accountability Act of 2004 - Reporting S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5, 6 Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404, adds 6-15-434, 6-15-1806, 6-15-1901, 6-15-1902, 6-15-1903 .Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; requires the establishment of a reporting system of schools' academic performance on the state-ma... More... OH Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Report Cards H.B. 3--Sec. 3302-021 Requires, by July 1, 2005 and not later than July 1, 2007, the implementation of a value-added progress dimension for districts and buildings, and the integration of that dimension into the report cards and performance ratings. Requires the state board to ado... More... MI Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Reporting Requirements H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions) Sec. 19. (1) A district shall comply with any requirements of sections 1204a, 1277, 1278, and 1280 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1204a, 380.1277, 380.1278, and 380.1280, commonly referred to as "public act 25 of 1990" that are not also required by the no... More... MI Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Center for Educational Performance and Information H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions) Sec. 94a. (1) There is created within the office of the state budget director in the department of management and budget the center for educational performance and information. The department of management and budget shall provide administrative support to the... More... NH Became law without governor's signature 07/2003 P-12 New Hampshire School District Profiles H.B. 139 (193-E:3, III) States that a comprehensive, statewide educational accountability system should include reporting on pupil performance at the school, school district, and state levels. Not later than December 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, the department must issue a publi... More... NY Adopted 07/2003 P-12 No Child Left Behind Act of 2001-Public Reporting Req. Section 100.2(m) of Title 8 NYCRR Establishes rules to establish criteria and procedures to ensure State and local educational agency compliance with the provisions of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 relating to public reporting requirements. NEW YORK REG 15899 (SN) The proposed ... More... NY Adopted 07/2003 P-12 No Child Left Behind Act of 2001-Data Reporting Req. 8 NYCRR Section 100.2(bb) Establishes rules to establish criteria and procedures relating to school district data reporting to ensure State and local educational agency compliance with the provisions of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 relating to public reporting requireme... More... TX Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2003 P-12 School District Reporting S.B. 900 Relates to computation and reporting of the ratios of a school district's expenditures and personnel relating to direct student instruction.... More... DE Rule Adoption 06/2003 P-12 Education Profiles/Schools/Districts and the State 14 DAC 104 Establishes rules due to changes in state and federal statutes concerning school, district and state accountability for student performance; continues the mandates for the development of profiles for schools districts and the state; includes the information th... More... NV Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Assessment, Reporting Requirements S.B. 1 (Omnibus Bill) Senate Bill 1 also revises provisions governing accountability and reporting requirements, in accordance with implementing spring testing for all statewide achievement tests in grades 3 through 8. Until the 2005-2006 school year, the state will use the combin... More... TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 School Dropout Data S.B. 894 Requires the commissioner to develop a process for auditing school district dropout records electronically. The commissioner must also develop a system and standards for review of the audit or use systems already available at the agency. The system must be d... More... FL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Education Accountability H.B. 915 Expands legislative intent for K-20 education performance accountability system; provides requirements and implementation schedule for performance-based funding; provides mission, goals, and measures; requires collection of certain data; provides eligibility c... More... IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Student Achievement Reporting H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Specifies that the state board must incorporate reporting of student achievement into the standards and accreditation system. NEW SUBSECTION. 53. Develop and implement a statewide program of educational assessment reporting. The director shall provide info... More... CO Vetoed 05/2003 P-12 School Accountability Reports S.B. 275 Eliminates the requirement that the department of education print and provide to each public school a specified number of school accountability reports; eliminates the requirement that a public school distribute copies of its school accountability report to ev... More... MD Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Data Collection Forms for Schools H.B. 1055 Extends the implementation date for the applicability of specified standards for data collection forms for schools, school systems, and the state department of education. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb1055t.rtf... More... DE Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Education Profile Reports S.B. 76 Requires the State Department of Education to issue Delaware Public Education Profiles for all public schools, including charter schools and vocational-technical school districts, on or before August 1 of each year. The purpose of the profiles is to report on ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Early Intervention Block Grant Program Repeal Date H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Changes repeal date from 2003 to 2004 on chapter establishing statewide early intervention block grant program. Components of this program include K-3 class size reduction and K-3 diagnostic reading assessments. Chapter requires districts to annually report to... More... IN Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 School Corporation Performance Report; Graduation Rate H.B. 1120 Changes the required publication date and some components of school corporation annual performance reports. Provides for reports to be made available on the Internet. Requires school corporations to provide free copies of reports upon request. Removes language... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 School Reporting Requirements H.B. 2303 Requires the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to submit two reports to the Governor and Legislature that summarize the reporting requirements of school districts, charter schools and state education entities including recommendations to repeal any duplica... More... CO Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Department of Education Accountability Reports S.B. 117 Concerns the schedule by which the Department of Education releases school accountability reports; deletes the requirement that the department wait to update its website to include reports until after the department transmits the reports for printing. http://w... More... AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Quality Education Act of 2003 - School Improvement H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill) Amends §§ 6-15-420 - 6-15-429. Requires the state board to establish a clear concise system of reporting the academic performance of each school on the state mandated criterion reference exam which conforms with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act... More... AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Quality Education Act of 2003 - Accountability and Assessment H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill) Amends §§ 6-15-402 - 6-15-406. Creates the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program Act; including requiring the State Board of Education to establish standards defining what students should know in content areas and a system for ... More... NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Reporting H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Adds a new section (22-2A-11). Requires state board to adopt the format for reporting student scores to parents. If the state board has adopted a state improving schools program, the annual report must include the results of that program for each public scho... More... CO Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Unsatisfactory Schools Classification; Charter School Proposals S.B. 137 Concerns modifications for notifying schools districts of unsatisfactory schools. Concerns deadlines for charter school proposals. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/pubhome.nsf... More... PA Signed into law 12/2002 P-12 State Report Card H.B. 204 Amends the Public School Code (P.L.30, NO.14). Provides for a state report card and for the collection of data that meets the requirements of NCLB. Specifies that the report card information is to be distributed on the Web and contain data for the state, dist... More... AZ Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A Arizona LEARNS Achievement Profiles Results: http://www.ade.az.gov/azlearns/... More... GA Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A 2000-01 Report Card web page: (http://techservices.doe.k12.ga.us/reportcard/)... More... ID Active 10/2002 P-12 Acountability Reporting N/A 2000-01 State and District Profiles: http://www.sde.state.id.us/DistProfiles/DistrictProfiles.asp... More... LA Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A Accountability Reports: (http://www.doe.state.la.us/DOE/asps/home.asp?I=PROF98) 1998-1999 Report Cards: (http://www.doe.state.la.us/DOE/asps/home.asp?I=PARENTS)... More... MD Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A Performance Reporting Web site: http://msp.msde.state.md.us/... More... MS Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/a 2000-2001 Mississippi Record Card: (http://www.ms.gov/frameset.jsp?URL=http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/)... More... NE Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A 2000-2001 Report Card: (http://reportcard.nde.state.ne.us/Main/PDFDownload.asp)... More... OK Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A Report Cards and Statistics: http://www.sde.state.ok.us/other.html... More... SC Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A 2001 Report Cards web page: (http://www.myscschools.com/reportcard/)... More... WV Active 10/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A Report Cards web page: http://wvde.state.wv.us/data/report_cards/... More... CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Accountability Report Cards, Other A.B. 1818 Requires the school accountability report card to include the rate of pupils who earn Governor's scholarship awards. Deletes provisions which limit the amount of compensation of a school board member. Deletes the certification requirement regarding charter sch... More... WA Active 09/2002 P-12 Accountability Reporting N/A 2002-03 District and school report card requirements: (http://www.k12.wa.us/ESEA/pubdocs/Reportcardchecklist.pdf). Also, Washington has a special edition of its report card -- one that meets the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB or ESEA). To view, u... More... IL Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 School Report Cards H.B. 5663 Amends the School Code. Provides that the school report card assessing the performance of a school district's schools and students must specify the amount of money that the district receives from all sources. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementa... More... AK Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 School Performance Designation and Improvement Deadlines Pushed Back H.B. 352 Requires school report cards to include performance designations and the department to monitor the progress of the implementation of school improvement plans starting in January 2005 rather than January 2003. Requires the department to begin assigning performa... More... AK Adopted 06/2002 P-12 School Report Regulations Change - 4 AAC 06.170 Amends the number of students that must be tested in order to publicly report test results from 3 to 10. http://www.eed.state.ak.us/regs/adopted/4AAC06.170_schoolreport.pdf... More... CO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Testing and Reporting of K-12 ESL Students S.B. 109 Requires department to develop single test for districts to identify students eligible to participate in K-12 English language proficiency programs; establish statewide proficiency levels and accomodations on test; and disaggregate testing data to track the ac... More... IL Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 NAEP Testing, School Report Cards, Parental Notification of Child Placement in Bilingual Program, Supplemental Aid to Low-Income Districts S.B. 1983 Requires schools that are part of the sample drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics to administer the biennial State academic assessments of 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics under the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Provide... More... CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Alternative Education Campuses S.B. 94 Requires state board to establish criteria and application process for a school to be designated an alternative education campus. Mandates that criteria and application process include specified components. Permits charter school meeting criteria to be designa... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Performance Indices, School Classification and Intervention for Failing Schools H.B. 2658 Requires that the academic achievement profile report for schools serving students grades K-8 include as indicators the Arizona Measure of Academic Progress and the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test. Academic achievement profile reports for s... More... KS Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Curriculum Standards Review, State School Report Card, Pupil Performance Study S.B. 9 Requires review of curriculum standards in certain core academic areas every five instead of three years. Changes date to requires state board to prepare public education performance report card on or before January 1 of each academic year. Eliminates language... More... IN Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Districts Annual Performance Reports H.B. 1108 Changes the required publication date and some components of school corporation annual performance reports; provides for reports to be made available on the Internet; requires school corporations to provide free copies of reports to persons who request copies;... More... VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Annual Fall Reports H.B. 884, S.B. 350 Directs the Board of Education to include, in its annual fall report on public education needs and schools failing to meet the Standards of Quality (SOQ), a complete listing of the current SOQ, justification for each standard, how long each standard has been i... More... WA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Disaggregating data S.B. 6456 Authorizes the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission to set performance improvement goals for certain groups of students and dropout goals. The goals shall be consistent with student privacy protection provisions of RCW 28A.655.090(7) and shall n... More... OH Signed into law 11/2001 P-12 Performance Indicators Provision S.B. 1 Repeals all former district performance indicators, and requires the state board to establish at least 17 new indicators annually through 2006, and every six years thereafter. Requires the state board to notify school districts of new indicators at least two ... More... CA Signed into law 10/2001 P-12 High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools A.B. 961 Establishes the High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools within the Public Schools Accountability Act. Requires a school that participates in the High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools that maintains kindergarten o... More... OR Signed into law 08/2001 P-12 Grading Schools and Reporting S.B. 811 Encourages school districts to implement programs to improve student performance and school personnel satisfaction such as the Initiative for Quality in Education; provides the programs shall allow schools to achieve their individual and unique goals as reflec... More... MO Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 School Report Cards H.B. 865; S.B. 575 Requires an annual report for each building in a district to be made available in several ways, including but not limited to, providing the report when a student enrolls or receives grades, in newspapers, or on the Internet. Instead of reporting financial info... More... CO Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 New rankings for school report cards S.B. 98 Directs new rankings for school report cards; adds new categories of information to be included in school report cards; requires low performing schools to develop a school improvement plan; provides for financial assistance on a matching basis for certain low ... More... DE Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 School Accountability Program H.B. 220 Relates to school and district accountability for student outcomes; provides for notification to the public of school rankings; provides technical and financial assistance to schools classified as needing improvement.... More... NV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Accountability and Various Provisions S.B. 165 Revises provisions governing the accountability of public schools; revises provisions governing the requirements for a person to take tests on general education development; revises provisions governing the pupil count and the calculation of basic support unde... More... NV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Annual Reports A.B. 364 Requires regional subdistricts created in certain school districts to prepare annual reports, prescribing the information required to be reported, requires the boards of trustees of such school districts to prepare a compilation of the reports that includes an... More... TX Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Financial Accounting Rating System S.B. 218 Requires the commissioner to, in consultation with the comptroller, develop and implement a financial accountability rating system for school districts. The system must include uniform indicators adopted by the commissioner by which to measure a district's fi... More... TN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Disaggregated Data H.B. 1301 Requires the disaggregation of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program scores prior to release as part of the commissioner's annual report due on November 1.... More... IN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Accountability System S.B. 165 Eliminates language that defined "expected [school] performance level" by student attendance rates, remediation rates, assessment scores and graduation rates; replaces it with definition of "student performance improvement level" which refers to "improvement i... More... NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Students Tested; Reporting S.B. 660 Relates to annual school accountability reporting. There are five indices through which public school performance shall be measured and reported to school districts: (1) student achievement as measured by a nationally norm-referenced or criterion-referenced t... More... UT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Reporting Requirements H.B. 235 Modifies the provisions relating to the State System of Public Education by requiring school districts to have published in an newspaper the district's annual financial report and the annual report on teachers' salaries within the district.... More... CO Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Attendance Rates Reported H.B. 1222 Concerns the replacement of information on student dropout rates with information on school attendance rates in reports for elementary schools.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Disaggregated Data, Professional Development S.B. 28 Modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education to address issues related to the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS); expands the categories for disaggregating student performance data to include limited English profici... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 School Accountability Report Card S.B. 1632 Requires the State Department of Education to develop and recommend for adoption a standardized template for the school accountability report card, as specified, and definitions for the elements required to be included in the school accountability report card.... More... UT Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Establishment of U-PASS Assessment Program H.B. 177 Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for stud... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 State Report on Education Outcomes S.B. 387 Requires the Secretary of Education to provide a graduate follow up study each year to the Governor and to the General Assembly. Provides the report must show the dropout rate among seniors in Delaware high schools and the enrollment in a post-secondary instit... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 State Accountability System S.B. 2837 Requires the Department of Education to implement the educational accountability system for Hawaii's public schools; requires Department of Education to develop a collaborative process with stakeholders, including representatives of affected bargaining units, ... More... IL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Safety, School Report Cards, Background Checks, Summer School H.B. 4587 Public Act No. 91-4587; Amends the School Code to provide that the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program shall provide funding for school report cards and criminal background investigations; adds the Summer Bridges program to the progra... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Recognition for Full Inclusion S.B. 2745 Direct the State Department of Education to provide an annual recognition program for schools for providing full inclusion of children with disabilities in all aspects of academic and extracurricular activities.... More... CO Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Accountability S.B. 186 Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; specifies the methodology for such evaluation; requires the department to develop a comprehensive data collection and repor... More... IN Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Reports to the Public; Kindergarten S.B. 489 Requires the mailing, instead of publishing, of the school corporation performance report; provides that a child must be at least five years of age on July 1 of the 2000-2001 school year or any subsequent school year to officially enroll in a kindergarten prog... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Education Oversight Committee & Office of Education Accountability H.B. 1187 The Governor may appoint study commissions as he deems appropriate to study education questions, issue findings and make recommendations to the Education Coordinating Council. This provision will go into effect upon signature to allow the current Education Ref... More...