From the ECS State Policy Database Data-Driven Improvement

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 DE Adopted 07/2012 P-12 Outlines the criteria and process for interagency data governance and the conduction of evaluation, audits and studies pursuant to 14 Del.C. §§121, 122 and 4111. http://regulations.delaware.gov/register/july2012/final/16%20DE%20Reg%2067%2007-01-12.htm Title: 14 DE ADC 294 Source: http://regulations.delaware.gov/ MI Signed into law 12/2011 P-12 Requires a bipartisan workgroup to be convened and recommend measures to improve educational quality in all public schools. The group must focus on student growth and submit its recommendations by March 30, 2012. Sec. 1277b http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2011-SFA-0618-N.pdf Title: S.B. 618 Source: legislature.mi.gov OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Provides that of a specified department of education appropriation, a portion in each fiscal year may be used to train district and regional specialists and district educators in the use of the value-added progress dimension and in the use of data as it relates to improving student achievement. This training may include teacher and administrator professional development in the use of data to improve instruction and student learning, and teacher and administrator training in understanding teacher value-added reports and how they can be used as a component in measuring teacher and administrator effectiveness. A portion of this funding may be provided to a credible nonprofit organization with expertise in value-added progress dimensions. Requires that the remainder of the appropriation be used by the department to incorporate a statewide value-added progress dimension into performance ratings for school districts and for the development of an accountability system that includes the preparation and distribution of school report cards and funding and expenditure accountability reports. Page 982 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf Title: H.B. 153 - Using Data to Improve Student Achievement Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us FL Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Defines "local instructional improvement system" as a system that uses electronic and digital tools that provide teachers, administrators, students, and parents with data and resources to systematically manage continuous instructional improvement. The system supports relevant activities such as instructional planning, information gathering and analysis, rapid-time reporting, decisionmaking on appropriate instructional sequence, and evaluating the effectiveness of instruction. Requires the system to integrate instructional information with student-level data to provide predictions of future student achievement. Requires that each school district provide teachers, administrators, students, and parents with access to such information. Added provision that requires system to including the ability to connect student assessment data with electronic and digital instructional materials, to enable district staff to plan, create, and manage professional development and to connect professional development with staff information and student performance data, and to provide the ability to seamlessly connect the local instructional improvement system to electronic and digital content. Requires the state board to adopt rules to administer this section. http://laws.flrules.org/2011/55 Title: S.B. 2150 - Sec. 19 Source: http://laws.flrules.org NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 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 explain the process by which parents may inquire further about their child's progress. Requires all districts and charter schools to prepare and disseminate the student progress report to parents in a timely manner. Directs the commissioner to develop methods to support educators in the use of performance data to assist in student learning, which must be periodically improved based on feedback from educators. Also directs the commissioner to develop informational materials to help parents and teachers understand the regents learning standards and the results of state assessments. Directs the commissioner to develop a school leadership report card and a separate school progress report card to assist boards of education, the state and the public in assessing the performance of school leaders, including superintendents and principals, and the schools they lead. Provides the report cards must include an assessment of the school's progress in achieving standards of excellence, including parent involvement, curriculum, teacher quality, and accountability measures. Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations requiring trustees or boards of education to attach copies of such report cards to the statement of estimated expenditures, and to otherwise make the report cards publicly available in the same manner as a district report card. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02107&sh=t Title: S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 2 Source: assembly.state.ny.us OH Adopted 01/2006 P-12 Adds to operations services the requirement that (f) Financial management strategies that align expenditure of resources with the school district strategic plan and, if applicable, its continuous improvement plan. Other new language requries that allocation and expenditure of school district resources be aligned with the school district's strategic plan and reflect best practices in financial management. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/35/3301-35-06_PH_FF_A_RU_20060214_1445.pdf Title: Educational Programs and Support 3301-35-06 Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us LA Adopted 12/2005 P-12 These changes clarify that all local education agencies must be monitored, eliminates the exemplary category, and adds a new category called targeted monitoring. It also clarifies that agencies must begin correcting non-compliance upon receipt of the monitoring report, requires agencies to develop an intensive corrective action plan (ICAP) when compliance is not reached in one year, requires additional actions in conjunction with the ICAP, and allows the state superintendent to impose special conditions on the agencies IDEA Part B grant award without the need for approval from the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. This new monitoring process began in 1999 and, after five years of implementation, changes were needed to make the process more effective. Page 40 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf Title: LAC 28:XCI.101, 105-111, 301, 303-317, 507, and 509 Source: www.doa.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2004 Postsec. Allows the Director of the Department of Administration and the Executive Director of the Board of Regents to establish a performance based incentives program of state employee appraisal. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0047.htm Title: H.B. 2032 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site WV to governor 03/2004 P-12 Part of H.B. 4001 requires the state board to adopt and periodically review and update indicators of efficiency for use by the appropriate divisions within the department to ensure efficient management and utilization of resources in the public schools. Title: H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site AZ Signed by Governor 12/2002 Postsec. Community College Adjusts appropriations for various departments, including community colleges and outlines community college performance measures: Performance measures: - Per cent of upper-division students at universities who transfer from an Arizona community college with 12 or more credits 40; - Per cent of students who transfer to Arizona public universities without loss of credits 95; - Number of applied baccalaureate programs collaboratively developed with universities 12; - Per cent of community college campuses that offer 2-way interactive TV courses 100; - Per cent of students completing vocational education programs who enter jobs related to training 90. All community college districts shall provide articulation information to students for classes that transfer for credit to an Arizona public university, including references to advisement, counseling and appropriate web sites, in all catalogues, course schedules and internet course guides. Arizona learning systems shall develop an operations and business plan for continued statewide use and financial viability of the system. If a plan is not developed and submitted to the joint legislative budget committee for its review by July 31, 2002, Arizona learning systems shall terminate by the end of August 2002. If Arizona learning systems is terminated, state-funded assets for Arizona learning systems shall be disbursed as directed by the joint legislative budget committee and any remaining state appropriations for Arizona learning systems shall be returned to the state general fund. Title: S.B. 1001 §14 Source: StateNet WV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates a system of education performance audits as a tool for determining the quality of education. Stipulates that measures used to evaluate performance: (1) are clearly aligned with the educational goals and expectations established for the student, school and school system performance, including student success in postsecondary education and work; (2) reflect a priority for student progress, health and safety; and (3) are limited in number and easily comparable to national measures. Requires state board to conduct a review of the system of education performance audits and to submit a final report including any necessary revisions of its policy on the system of education performance audits and recommendations for statutory changes, if any, to the legislative oversight commission on education accountability at its interim meeting in December, 2001. The state board is required to examine performance indicators utilized by various organizations to compare the performance of state education systems for potential use in the system of education performance audits. The state board also must consider methods for assigning accreditation status, such as weighting the attainment of performance standards so that high performing schools and school systems can be fully accredited while correcting deficiencies on the process standards, except that process standards affecting the health and safety of students shall be weighted equally with the performance standards. Title: H.B. 2934 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Relates to high quality education programs and standards, efficiency standards and indicators, performance measures, the process for improving education, education performance audits, the office of education performance audits, on-site reviews, assessment and accountability, use of assessment information, accreditation and school system approval and impaired schools; creates an exemplary school accreditation standard. Title: H.B. 4674 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet