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From the ECS State Policy Database 1994-2013

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The following summary includes policies ECS has tracked in this database since 1994. 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. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary 21st Century Skills WV Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Mathematics Content Standards and Objectives for West Virginia Schools WV ADC s 126-44B-1, 2, 3, 4 Defines content standards and instructional goals and objectives for mathematics program of study, consistent with West Virginia's move to adopt the common core standards. Broadens scope of mathematics curriculum to include 21st century content standards and o... More... CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 Curriculum Frameworks, Standards, Instructional Materials, Model Professional Development Modules A.B. 250 - Curriculum Frameworks, Standards, Instructional Materials, Model Professional Development Modules From bill summary: Deletes the schedule for submission of instructional materials for foreign languages and health for state board approval, and the exception to the requirement that criteria for the evaluation of instructional materials be approved when curri... More... GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Certification in "Soft Skills" H.B. 186 - Certification in "Soft Skills" Authorizes the Governor's Office of Workforce Development to establish certification in soft skills, which may include, but not be limited to, skills relating to punctuality, ability to learn, and ability to work in a team, as a discrete and complementary comp... More... MD Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Postsec. Establishes the P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland S.B. 286 Establishes the Governor's P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland (the Council), a partnership among the state, educators, and the business community to better prepare Maryland students for jobs of the 21st century while enhancing the state's economic competitive... More... NE Adopted 01/2010 P-12 Quality Indicators Related to State System of Accreditation Title 92, NAC Chapter 10 - Multiple Provisions Adds quality indicators to major provisions. For example, 004.01 K-12 Curriculum. Quality Indicator: The curriculum is comprehensive, coordinated, and sequential and is directed toward locally approved goals and standards for student learning. The instructiona... More... WV Adopted 09/2007 P-12 Performance Based Accreditation System Title 126, Series 13 Amends rules regarding standards, assessment, and accountability for student performance and progress. Incorporates 21st Century skills into the standards; revises the statewide assessment program; provides annual performance measures for the No Child Left Beh... More... Accountability WV Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 School Faculty Senates S.B. 359 Establishes faculty senates at each public school comprised of all permanent, full-time educators. Requires principal to convene first meeting and initiate voting for chair, vice chair and secretary of the faculty senate. Empowers the faculty senate to control... More... WY Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 Statewide Education Accountability System H.B. 91 Adjusts how school level performance is determined by limiting the measurement of student readiness as defined by achievement on standardized assessment to Grade 11 (was Grade 11 & 12), and adding a measure of equity as defined by a measure of academic student... 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... LA Adopted 09/2012 P-12 Retesting Due to Testing Irregularity LAC 28:CXI.312 Provides that where retests on an assessment required for accountability are available, LEAs may request that School Performance Score (SPS) calculations include retest results through a waiver request to the state board for accountability purposes. In such wa... More... LA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Allows BESE to Expend Certain Funds to Use Peer-Review Consultants S.B. 635 Allows the state board to expend Louisiana Quality Education Support Fund monies to use peer-review consultants to review programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812534... More... OK Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Commission for Education Quality and Accountability S.B. 1797 Creates Commission for Education, Instruction Quality and Accountability combining the Oklahoma Commission on Teacher Prep with the Office of Accountability.  Authorizes commission to approve and accredit teacher education programs. Beginning July 1, 2013, the... More... IA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 A bill for an act relating to mandatory reporting of school employee misconduct to the board of educational examiners. H.F. 2383 Requires local boards, local or regional superintendents, directors of accredited nonpublic schools, etc. to report any disciplinary action for school employee misconduct to the board of educational examiners. Conduct to be reported includes the following: (a)... More... MD Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Core Academic Standard Implementation S.B. 293 Requires that the county board include in its goals to improve student academic achievement a description of how it plans to ensure and measure academic proficiency of students in core academic subjects at various points during the elementary and secondary edu... More... MN Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Repealed - Office of Educational Accountability H.F. 2949 Repealed statute which created and funded the Independent Office of Educational Accountability, which advised the legislative education committees on the degree to which the statewide educational accountability and reporting system included a comprehensive ass... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 School Performance Accountability S.B. 1458 Amends the existing school achievement profile phase-out to limit the time frame to the remainder of the academic year. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/summary/h.sb1458_03-26-12_astransmittedtogovernor.pdf... 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... OR Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Postsec. Achievement Compact S.B. 1581 Defines "education entity" as a school district, an education service district, a community college district or community college service district, the Oregon University System or public university thereof, and the health professions and graduate science progr... More... IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Financial Oversight Panels S.B. 2149 Requires that if an Annual Financial Report resulting from a mandated audit reflects a deficit, the district must, within 30 days after acceptance of such audit report, submit a deficit reduction plan. Makes legislative findings relative to the need for fina... More... OR Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Fiscal Accountability H.B. 2280 Expands scope of audits of best business practices of education districts to include performance audits. Removes discretion of education districts to volunteer for audits. Allows State Board of Education to determine percentage of expenses of audit that s... More... NH Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Accountability Standards met with NEASC Accreditation H.B. 130 Allows a school to demonstrate compliance with New Hampshire's input-based school accountability standards by furnishing evidence that it has received full accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC); a school may demonstrate... More... FL Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Expands Definition of Failing School for Purposes of Student Eligibility for the Opportunity Scholarship Program H.B. 1331 From House of Representatives Staff Analysis: Expands the definition of a failing school for purposes of student eligibility for the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) (Created in 1999 as part of a broad education reform package known as the A+ Plan; Design... More... OR Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Accountability S.B. 800 Removes outdated, unnecessary or redundant provisions in education statutes related to evaluations, reports, reporting requirements, filings, preparation and distribution of education laws, policies, curriculum requirements, assessments, certifications and add... More... OR Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2289 (1)Establishes the Task Force on Accountable Schools, consisting of 14 members appointed as follows: (a) President of the Senate is to appoint two members from the Senate; (b) the Speaker of the House is to appoint two members from the House; (c) The President... More... PA Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Multiple Sections - Intermediate Unit Transparency H.B. 1352 Section 907-A requires the posting of financial and contract information for Intermediate Units. Section 921-A brings the intermediate units in line with other education agencies with regard to posting of financial reports. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI... More... GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Increased Flexibility for Increased Accountability H.B. 192 Extends until end of 2014-15 school year the provision that each local school system either notify the department of its intention to request increased flexibility through local school board flexibility contract or elect not to request increased flexibility in... More... AR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 District Takeovers by State Board S.B. 383 If the state board orders the takeover of a school district under authority and also orders the removal of the school district board of directors, the state board may assume all authority of the school district board of directors as may be necessary for the da... More... NJ Issued 04/2011 P-12 Education Transformation Task Force E.O. 58 Establishes the New Jersey Education Transformation Task Force. Charges the task force with reviewing all current administrative regulations that affect public education, and evaluating them to determine the degree to which they increase the quality of instruc... More... AR Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Performance Ratings for Education Service Cooperatives H.B. 1433 Establishes performance ratings for education service cooperatives. Requires that each education service cooperative be evaluated during the 2012-13 school year and at least once every five years thereafter. The final evaluation, will be included in the annual... More... WY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Wyoming Accountability in Education Act S.F. 70 Creates the Wyoming Accountability in Education Act and establishes a statewide education accountability system; establishes system components and student performance measures; imposes duties upon the state board of education and the state superintendent; pres... More... TX Adopted 01/2011 P-12 Financial Accountability Rating System 19 TAC 109.1002, 1003, 1004, 1005 From the January 28, 2011 Texas Register: The sections establish provisions that detail the ratings, types of ratings, criteria, reporting and sanctions for the financial accountability rating system. Amendments update the School Financial Integrity Rating Sys... More... CA Vetoed 08/2010 P-12 Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Quality Education Investment Act S.B. 1191 Requires that, in the report evaluating the effectiveness of the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006, the department identify the strategies that demonstrate the effectiveness of schools in meeting accountability requirements pursuant to the act. Directs ... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Impact Aid H.B. 2725--Multiple Provisions Requires school districts receiving impact aid to establish an Impact Aid Fund and separately account for impact aid monies received and prohibits comingling with other revenue sources. Mandates that the school district account for Fund monies as prescribed by... More... NJ Signed into law 05/2010 Postsec. Community College New Jersey Economic Stimulus Act of 2009 S.B. 920 Meant to ease restrictions on public-private partnerships between higher education institutions and private entities, encouraging flexibility in planning and growth at state and county colleges, and creating jobs. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2010/Bills/S1000/... More... MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Race to the Top Legislation - Innovative School Scheduling Models H.B. 439 Requires the state board of education to explore the use of innovative school scheduling models, including extended year, year-round schooling, or other school scheduling models that do not allow for prolonged lapses in instructional time, in low-performing or... More... MS Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 New Start School S.B. 2293 Creates a New Start School Program. Requires a New Start School to be established in each public school that is considered failing. Provides for the conversion of underperforming schools into conversion charter schools, for contracts relating to such conversio... More... WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Dropout Prevention S.B. 6403 Regarding accountability and support for vulnerable students and dropouts. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, by September 15, 2010, to develop and report recommendations for the development of a comprehensive, K-12 dropout reduct... 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... WA Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Private Schools H.B. 2996 Includes approved private schools in the Superintendent of Public Instruction's record check information rules. Chapter 100 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2996.PL.pdf... More... MA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Underperforming or Chronically Underperforming Schools S.B. 2247; (NEW BILL) Repeals and replaces existing policies relating to Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate a school as underperforming or chronically underperforming. Defines Commissioner's and State Board's authority and duties. http://www.mass.gov/le... More... GA Adopted 11/2009 P-12 LEA Contracts for Flexibility and Accountability GAC 160 -5-1-.33 Renames rule (previously titled "School District Contracts for Flexibility and Accountability to Improve Student Achievement") to "Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2): Local Education Agency Contracts for Flexibility and Accountability". Amends rule, whi... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Annual Report on Dropouts S.B. 651 Requires the superintendent of public instruction by August 2011 to submit a report called the Annual Report on Dropouts in the state. Requires, among other things, the report contain specified information on: one-year dropout rates for grades 7-12, four-year ... 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... NH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Establishment of an Accountability System S.B. 180 Establishes an accountability system to ensure schools are providing the opportunity for an adequate education. This bill is a request of the joint legislative oversight committee on accountability for an adequate education established in 2008. http://www.genc... More... NH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Accountability System to Ensure the Opportunity for an Adequate Education S.B. 180 Establishes an accountability system to ensure schools are providing the opportunity for an adequate education and repeals the joint legislative oversight committee on costing an adequate education. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/sb0180.html... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Community Schools H.B. 1 - Section 3314.012, 3314.015, 3314.016 and 3314.02 Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1: Eliminates the two-year wait before the department of education begins issuing annual report cards for a community school. Provides that the ratings a community school receives for its first two full school years will not ... More... DE Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Eliminating the DSTP S.B. 68 Eliminates the DSTP; requires its replacement beginning in the 2010-2011 school year with a test administered in English language arts and math in grades 2-10 at the beginning of the school year and at least one more time later in the year; assesses student pr... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Comprehensive Review of School Finance Weights, Allotments and Adjustments H.B. 3646 - Section 65 Adds new Subchapter I in Chapter 42 of Education Code. Establishes the Select Committee on Public School Finance Weights, Allotments, and Adjustments to conduct a comprehensive review of weights, allotments and adjustments under the public school finance syste... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Special Accreditation Investigations H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part II Adds to circumstances under which special accreditation investigations must be conducted. Directs the commissioner to authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted when: (1) A significant pattern of decreased academic performance has develope... More... CO Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 School Accountability and Accreditation S.B. 163 Repeals and reenacts the Educational Accreditation Act of 1998 to align accountability and accreditation measures and procedures; assigns specified related duties to the State Board of Education in regard to accountability to include measuring student academic... More... MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 College and Career-Readiness Workgroup H.F. 2 Establishes a college and career-readiness workgroup headed jointly by MDE and the U of M to evaluate and make recommendations to the commissioner and the legislature on the design of the state high school assessment system, levels of and mechanisms for accoun... More... OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Performance Review for Districts with High Poverty S.B. 473 Authorizes the Office of Accountability to conduct a performance review program to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the budget and operations of a school districts that has a district student eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals under ... More... WA Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Public Reporting S.B. 5889 Repeals, modifies, or suspends certain laws related to notice and reporting by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and school districts and required actions by school districts in the areas of curriculum, courses, assessments, and student pl... More... AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Closing the Achievement Gap H.B. 2163 Increases accountability for achievement gaps in school districts; provides intervention and support to public school districts to address the severity of achievement gaps. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act949.pdf... More... AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Improving Parents' Access to Public School Data S.B. 943 Improves student achievement and closes achievement gaps among student subgroups by providing public access to comprehensive school improvement plans; improves parental involvement and communication with parents; increases transparency and accountability of pu... More... LA Adopted 04/2009 P-12 District and State Accountability LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 611, 1101, 1501-1505, 1701-1707, 2401, 3905, 4311 Amends rules relating to the School, District and State Accountability System. Implements fundamental changes in classroom teaching by helping schools and communities focus on improved student achievement. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc... More... MS Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Task Force on Failing Schools Districts S.B. 2288 Continues the task force to study and report on the status of failing schools and school districts, effectiveness measures for improvement of those schools and school districts, and enhancement of accountability and sanctions; creates the teen pregnancy task f... 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... OK Vetoed 04/2009 P-12 Educational Accountability Reform Act S.B. 1111 Relates to schools; creates the Educational Accountability Reform Act; provides short title; transfers powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities for certain programs from State Department of Education to Education Oversight Board; provides for transfer o... 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... KY Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Transition to New Assessment and Accountability System S.B. 1 Section 18 Provides that whereas it is imperative that schools, administrators, teachers, parents and policymakers maintain high expectations for students, and it is important that there be an orderly transition from the current state assessment to the new assessment and... More... MS Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 School District Accreditation Levels S.B. 2308 Relates to school district accreditation levels; revises accreditation terminology. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2308SG.pdf... More... MS Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Children First Act of 2009 S.B. 2628 Prohibits public school students in 7th-12th grades who fail to maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 from participating in extracurricular activities. Authorizes and directs the state board to define failing schools and school districts under certain standards. Re... More... NJ Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 After School Activities in Abbot Districts S.B. 1175 Requires the board of education of each former Abbott district, in conjunction with the local governing body of the municipality in which the district is located, to develop a plan for a comprehensive program of after school activities; provides for what shall... More... UT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Impact Fees H.B. 259 Enacts a definition of "educational facility" in Utah municipal code. Enacts a definition of "charter school" in Impact Fees Act of Title 11 of Utah Code, Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units. Establishes new requirements for impact fees collected on or af... More... GA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Increased Local Flexibility and Accountability GAC 160-5-1-.33 Allows school districts to enter into contracts with the state to allow for increased local flexibility and accountability. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.33.pdf... More... MA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 School District Accountability H.B. 4967 Relates to school district accountability; provides the the makeup of the membership of the advisory council on school and district accountability to develop and administer a post-audit survey to audited districts and an annual survey to any schools and distri... More... NY Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Expenses to Be Paid Distinguished Educators and Technical Assistance Teams Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.15 Adds new rules to establish criteria for determining the reasonable and necessary expenses to be paid by school districts to distinguished educators, and members of school quality review teams and joint intervention teams. Adopted as proposed in April 2, 2008 ... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Commissioner of Education Authority A.B. 2965 Establishes Commissioner of Education as the rule- making authority under several school district accountability statutes relating to early termination agreements and revocation of certificates; requires public hearings on proposed regulations. http://www.njle... More... OK Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Co-Curricular and Extracurricular Programs OAC 210:35-17-2 Amends rules to require all state accredited schools to follow Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) guidelines related to student eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities, activity absences, number of games allowed, and leng... 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... GA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Flexibility in Exchange for Increased Accountability H.B. 1209 Relates to elementary and secondary education; provides that a local school system may enter into a contract with the state board of education for increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability; relates to waivers to improve student performance... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2666 Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of ... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Removal of Superintendents in Underperforming Districts S.B. 2149 Provides that the appointed or elected superintendent of education in an underperforming school district for a specified number of consecutive school years shall be removed from office by the school board at the end of the school year. Provides for the appoint... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Task Force on Underperforming Schools and Districts S.B. 2405 Creates a task force to study and report on the status of underperforming schools and districts in the state, effectiveness measures for improvement of those schools and school districts and enhancement of accountability and sanctions imposed on those schools ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter Schools and Charter School Accountability H.B. 160 Modifies provisions relating to charter schools. Modifies the appointment procedures for the staff director of the State Charter School Board. Modifies provisions relating to the purposes and status of charter schools. Requires the state board of education, in... More... AK Adopted 10/2007 P-12 Growth Model -- Accountability 4 AAC 06.805(b), .812, .845(c) Implements a growth model as part of the state's accountability system under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. ... More... LA Adopted 10/2007 P-12 Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313 Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII). Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates. Revises section 613 to clarify that s... More... CA Vetoed 09/2007 P-12 Accountability A.B. 494 Requires the Department of Education to notify a school district that a review is scheduled to occur if the department intends to waive that review or extend the time before the next onsite review. Provides for a waiver or extension of the next review if the c... More... IA Signed into law 09/2007 P-12 Postsec. Student Information Systems H.F. 468 Directs the department of education to conduct a study on the student information systems currently in use in the state, the types of data collected, and the future needs for additional types of data at the K-12 and postsecondary levels and for use by the stat... More... WV Adopted 09/2007 P-12 Performance Based Accreditation System Title 126, Series 13 Amends rules regarding standards, assessment, and accountability for student performance and progress. Incorporates 21st Century skills into the standards; revises the statewide assessment program; provides annual performance measures for the No Child Left Beh... More... MA Issued 08/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College The Readiness Project Executive Order No. 489 Establishes the Readiness Project to develop a plan to implement fundamental and systemic reforms to public education in the Commonwealth over the next ten years. The project will have three chairs appointed by the Governor.  The plan will include recommenda... 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... MN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Independent Office of Educational Accountability H.F. 2245 [Educational Accountability] Amends duties of the Independent Office of Educational Accountability as it relates to the commissioner of education's reporting requirements. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85... More... MN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 School Performance Report Cards H.F. 2245 [School Performance Report Cards] Requires the Independent Office of Educational Accountability to convene and faciliate an advisory group of curriculum and measurement experts to consider and recommend how to structure school performance data and school to fully, fairly and accurately report ... More... AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 School improvement plans H.B. 1517 Relates to an act to expand monitoring by the Department of Education of school district implementation of school improvement plans as required by 2006 Act 57 studying the state's system of public education. New provisions detail that the comprehensive school... More... AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Evaluation of state education system H.B. 2663 Enacts the continuing adequacy evaluation act of 2007 to continually evaluation the state education system by strengthening and preserving the integrity of the Continuing Adequacy Evaluation Act of 2004 by defining its provisions to ensure that future assessme... More... AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 SDE staffing for accountability S.B. 274 (Accountability--Evaluating Performance) Section 68 changes the position of director of the Division of Public School Accountability of the Department of Education to assistant commissioner and provides for the reassignment of staff needed for the division to fulfill its monitoring and reporting obli... More... AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Arkansas Evaluation Center S.B. 951 Creates the Arkansas evaluation center to: Attract students to existing courses and provide new online and distance learning courses; stimulate university faculty to conduct evaluation and research; provide academic training that consists of a variety of modal... More... TN Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Accountability System Review S.B. 457 Adds a new section. Directs the office of education accountability to periodically study the overall school accountability system and report to the General Assembly as to its operations and effectiveness, including any suggestions for improvement. Such report ... More... NJ Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 School District Fiscal Accountability A.B. 5; S.B 4 Amends school district accountability measures; provides that if a school district is spending state education funds for purposes not in compliance with state law, the district receives an adverse, disclaimer or qualified opinion by its independent auditor; pr... More... NJ Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 School District Fiscal Accountability A.B. 5 Amends school district accountability measures; provides that if a school district is spending state education funds for purposes not in compliance with state law, the district receives an adverse, disclaimer or qualified opinion by its independent auditor; pr... More... CO Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Growth Model for Student Performance H.B. 1048 Requires the convening of a technical advisory panel to assist in the development of a longitudinal growth model to measure the academic growth of students; requires the panel to develop a new method to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of aca... 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... NJ Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 Evaluation of State Department of Education S.J.R. 1; A.J.R. 10 Directs Commissioner of Education to contract with independent entity to conduct an evaluation of the Department Of Education and its oversight capacity; relates to public school funding reform. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/SJR/1_I1.PDF... More... OH Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 District Performance/Reporting, Non-Teaching Personnel H.B. 276 -- Misc. Sections Any district that leases a building to a community school [charter] located in the district or that enters into an agreement with a community school located in the district whereby the district and the school endorse each other's programs may elect to have dat... More... DE Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 School District Fiscal Accountability S.B. 374 Implements enhanced public education financial accountability provisions. Includes vocational- technical school districts and charter school funds and authority. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis143.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+374/$file/legis.html?open... More... GA Adopted 06/2006 P-12 Comprehensive Academic Performance System (CAPS) Demonstration Site Grant GAC 160-1-4-.272 Clarifies rules regarding the Comprehensive Academic Performance System (CAPS) Demonstration Site Grant. The intent of the funding is to provide seed resources to stimulate the adoption of a school-based comprehensive academic performance system that consolida... More... DE Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Financial Accountability for Districts and Charters S.B. 308 Implements enhanced financial accountability provisions for public school districts and charter schools; relates to district and charter school financial responsibility. Chapter Number 264 http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis143.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+308/$file/... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Florida Secondary School Redesign Act H.B. 7087 - Section 19 Defines secondary schools as those serving grades 6-12. Specifies that the following guiding principles must be used in the annual preparation of each secondary school's improvement plan: (a) Struggling students, especially those in failing schools, need th... More... TX Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Financial Accountability H.B. 1 C (Sections 2.05; 2.09) Requires the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop and implement a financial accountability rating system for school districts in this state that: (1) distinguishes among school districts based on levels of financial performance; and (... More... KY Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Annual Research Agenda for the Office of Education Accountability H.B. 581 Requires, on or before December 1 of each year, that the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee adopt an annual research agenda for the Office of Education Accountability. Provides that the agenda shall be amended to include studies direct... More... WA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Center for Improvement of Student Learning, Education Ombudsman H.B. 3127 Declares an intent to reactivate the center for the improvement of student learning, and to create within the center an educational ombudsman to serve as a resource center for parents and students and as an advocate for students in the public education system... More... IL Adopted 02/2006 P-12 CODE OF REGULATIONS 74 IAC 420.130, 140, 310, 320, 410, 420, 430, 630, 640, 710, 720 Provides standards for the conduct of financial audits of regional offices of education and certain educational service centers. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue7.pdf (starts page 329 of 520, see esp. 338 of 520)... More... MS Signed into law 10/2005 P-12 Hurrican Katrina and school accountability S.B. 2012 Authorizes the state board of education to exempt certain schools from accountability standards due to Hurricane Katrina of 2005. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20055E/pdf/SB/2001-2099/SB2012SG.pdf... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations S.B. 214 (Section 1-2) Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Requires the evaluation to include: (1) The impact of the accountability systems on learning and teach... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 School Safety and Accountability Reports Content/Design/Layout S.B. 214 (Section 3) Requires the department to convene a working group of specified members to evaluate the current rules, definitions and reporting of incidents pertaining to school safety. Requires the working group to submit a report of its findings to the state by November 20... More... NV Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; honor code S.B. 214 Establishes a monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; revises various provisions governing the statewide system of accountability; requires the Department of Education to prescribe an educational involvement accord for use in all public s... More... NV Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Technical assistance partnerships and regional training programs for professional development of teachers and administrators H.B. 109 Revises provisions governing the statewide system of accountability for public schools; redesignating the four regional training programs for the professional development of teachers and administrators based upon the geographic regions served by those programs... 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... NV Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Creates Commission on Educational Excellence. S.B. 404 Creates the Commission on Educational Excellence; prescribing the membership and duties of the Commission; creating the Trust Fund for Educational Excellence; authorizing school districts and charter schools to apply for grants of money from the Trust Fund to... More... NV Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Annual Report of Accountability H.B. 527 AN ACT relating to education; renaming the University and Community College System of Nevada as the Nevada System of Higher Education; clarifying that the System includes state colleges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. THE PEOPLE OF THE ... More... TX Rule Adoption 05/2005 P-12 Accountability and Performance Monitoring 19 TAC 2.97.AA.97.1005 Proposes rules concerning accountability and performance monitoring. Describes the Performance- Based Monitoring Analysis System (PBNAS). Adopts applicable excerpts of the PBMAS 2004-2005 Manual. TEXAS REG 97354 (SN)... 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 Insufficient Textbooks and Instructional Materials S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Requires the county superintendent, for purposes of enforcing the use of required textbooks and instructional materials, to specifically review at least annually schools that are ranked in any of deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the 2003 base Academic Performance... 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 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... AL Issued 08/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Governor's Commission on Education Spending Executive Order No. 02-2003 The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years.... More... MS Rule Adoption 08/2004 P-12 Accountability Standards (Uncodified) Establishes rules concerning accountability standards for the four state special schools governed by the Board of Education. MISSISSIPPI REG 9255 (SN)... More... NM Rule Adoption 08/2004 P-12 Public Education Department Administration NMAC 6.19.1, .3, .7, .8, .9 Amends to reflect the Public Education Department as the issuing agency, current statutory authority, adds and clarifies definitions, and amends indicators and measurement and school ratings sections. Defines adequate yearly progress (AYP) and requires AYP to ... 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... HI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Education Reform H.B. 2002 The education reform in this Act shall be known as the "Reinventing Education Act of 2004." The provisions include (1) establishing a weighted student formula; (2) providing additional information technology; (3) empowering principals through a Hawaii principa... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Impact Aid Bonds H.B. 2010 Removes the restriction on accommodation school districts located on a military base from issuing impact aid revenue bonds.  The district may hold an election to raise impact aid revenue bonds but may not issue the bonds until after the Federal Base Relocation... More... HI Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Federal Impact Aid H.B. 1908 Sets aside funds in federal impact aid for the establishment of a military liaison position within the department of education and to provide funding for the Joint Venture Education Program to facilitate interaction between the military community and the depar... More... LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Education Excellence Fund H.B. 666 Provides relative to Education Excellence Fund amounts and related investment earnings credited to ineligible entities. Provides that fund amounts and related investment earnings credited for a recipient entity shall revert to the fund whenever the entity no ... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Impact Aid for Teacher Housing H.B. 2475 Allows school districts to use Impact Aid for teacher housing. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0209.htm... More... DE Rule Adoption 05/2004 P-12 Accountability for Schools, Districts and the State 14 DAC 103 Amends regulation to reflect the changes made to Delaware's plan under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Changes include: definitions and the addition of State Progress Determinations. DELAWARE REG 1502 (SN) http://legis.state.de.us/LIS/Register.NS... More... GA Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Education Provisions H.B. 1190 Provides for the revision of certain provisions regarding education flexibility and accountability; requires the State Board of Education to create a single state-wide accountability system by December 31, 2004; amends provisions regarding school councils; am... More... HI Veto override 05/2004 P-12 Reinventing Education Act of 2004 S.B. 3238 Establishes a weighted student formula; provides additional information technology; empowers principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; strengthens community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking cen... More... MS Rule Adoption 05/2004 P-12 Public School Accountability Standards, 2003 (Uncodified) Revises public school accountability standards, 2003. MISSISSIPPI REG 9117 (SN)... 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... LA Adopted 04/2004 P-12 School, District and State Accountability LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005 Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishe... 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... MS Rule Adoption 03/2004 P-12 Public School Accountability Standards Appendix A Revises rules regarding the public school accountability standards. MISSISSIPPI REG 9027 (SN)... More... WA Signed into law 03/2004 Postsec. Degree Granting Institutions H.B. 2381 Ensures the quality of degree-granting institutions of higher education; relates to the accreditation of and site inspections of such institutions; requires public dissemination of information regarding entities that sell or award degrees without requiring app... More... WY Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Statewide Assessment of Student Performance H.B. 126 Modifies statewide student assessment (WyCAS) to conform with NCLB by expanding grades assessed from grades 4, 8 and 11 to grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 commencing with school year 2005-2006, and by expanding assessment subjects from reading, writing and mat... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Department of Education H.B. 1009 Creates the Division of Public School Accountability and the Arkansas Public Schools Accountability Advisory Council; creates the Division of Public School Academic Facilities to ensure equal access to adequate educational facilities and educational equipment;... More... AR Rule Adoption 11/2003 P-12 Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, & Accountability Program and Academic Distress Program ADE 162 Establishes rules governing the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment and Accountability Program and the Academic Distress Program (ACTAAP). http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20162%20actaap.pdf... More... IL Total veto stands 11/2003 P-12 Accountability Council S.B. 564 Extends the repeal date of a Section requiring the establishment of the Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council (from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2009). Extends the repeal date of provisions creating the State Board of Education Fund, the State Board of ... More... TX Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Postsec. State Government H.B. 7 One portion of this bill transfers the performance review of school districts, interscholastic competition, state agencies and state agency records management to the Legislative Budget Board from the Comptroller of Public Accounts. All unexpended and unobliga... More... MS Rule Adoption 07/2003 P-12 Public School Accountability Standards (Uncodified) Revises content of the document formerly known as Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards 2001. MISSISSIPPI REG 8796 (SN)... More... FL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Community College Postsec. Charter Schools H.B. 55-A Requires emphasis on reading; requires certain accountability measures; eliminates the limitations on the number of charter schools per school district; authorizes community colleges to operate charter schools that provide students with the option of receiving... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 School Accountability H.B. 2277 Modifies school achievement profile designations and extends for an additional year the time before a school is classified as a school failing to meet academic standards; provides that a parent of a pupil may apply for reimbursement from the failing schools tu... More... OK to governor 05/2003 P-12 Postsec. Modification of Oversight Commission H.B. 1767 - Omnibus Bill Amends membership of Education Oversight Board; assigns responsibility to oversee implementation of the provisions of Enrolled House Bill No. 1017 of the 1st Extraordinary Session of the 42nd Oklahoma Legislature. Also oversees implementation of the provisions... More... OK Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Accountability H.B. 1414 (Accountability Component) Requires the state board to develop and implement in accordance with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2001 (ESEA), P.L. No. 107-110, also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, an accountability system as provided for in 20 U.S.C., 6311 an... More... TX Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Accreditation of Public School Districts H.B. 2683 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, for purposes of determining the performance of a school district under this chapter, including the accreditation status of the district, a student confined by court order in a residential program or facility op... More... AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Department of Education Website Requirements H.B. 2887 Requires certain data be made available on the Department of Education website; includes financial data reports for school districts, administrator and teacher salary and benefit data, and local and state revenue sources. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/... 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... MS Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Postsec. Internal Audits Required at Postsecondary Institutions and Department of Education H.B. 650 Establishes full-time program of internal auditing at specific state postsecondary institutions, including various community/junior colleges, the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, and the department of education. Requires each specifi... More... NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Office of Education Accountability H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Adds Section 69 to create the "office of education accountability" in the legislative council service. The office is to provide an independent evaluation of the Assessment and Accountability Act and the School Personnel Act by: monitoring implementation of bo... More... SD Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Accountability System for Public Schools S.B. 40 Establishes a single, statewide state accountability system. The system is required to hold public schools and public school districts accountable for the academic achievement of their students and must ensure that all public schools and all public school dist... More... UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Duties of Boards S.B. 154 (Omnibus Bill) Section 53A-3-402 requires local boards to implement the core curriculum using instructional materials that best correlate to the core curriculum and graduation requirements; administer required tests and create plans to improve student progress; use progress-... More... NE Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Regulations and Procedures/Accreditation of Schools 92 NAC 10 (Rule 10) Establishes major rules regarding regulations and procedures for the accreditation of schools. Repeals 94 NAC 3. NEBRASKA REG 895 (SN)... More... PA Adopted 12/2002 P-12 No Child Left Behind Act 32 PAB 6096 22 PA. CODE CH. 403 Promulgates rules relating to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Ensures that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging State achievement standards and academic assessments. Provid... More... UT Adopted 11/2002 P-12 Annual Assurance of Compliance by School Districts R277-108 Provides school districts with a comprehensive list of required assurances and provides for accountability to the State Board of Education. These include: (1) the National motto is displayed in schools; (2) a policy has been developed, in consultation with sc... More... CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Quality Education Commission A.B. 2217 Establishes the California Quality Education Commission for the purpose of developing, evaluating, validating and refining a quality education model for prekindergarten through grade 12. Requires the commission to report its findings and recommendations to the... More... FL Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Education Code Re-Write: School Improvement and Accountability Program; Florida School Recognition Program S.B. 20E Eliminates commissioner waiver authority in school improvement/accountability system (see bill section 379, page 849, line 29 ff) Places Florida School Recognition Program eligibility on basis of school grades rather than application process. According to legi... More... OK Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Performance Review S.B. 1335 Relates to performance review of certain school districts; modifies authority and duties of Office of Accountability related to school performance ; clarifies authorized use of certain funds. Allows the Office of Accountability to contract with an outside ent... More... SC Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Membership of Oversight Committee H.B. 3602 Relates to the education oversight committee, so as to add the state superintendent of education or the superintendent's designee as an ex officio nonvoting member.... More... MD Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Baltimore School Board and CEO Requirements, District Bonding, Baltimore Principal Development Program, Environmental Hazards H.B. 853 Increases maximum of aggregate principal amount of bonds outstanding that Baltimore district may hold from $25 million to $75 million. Require Baltimore board and CEO to ensure increased community involvement and outreach in support of the city's public school... More... KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Teacher Quality Duties of the Office of Education Accountability S.B. 166 Makes it explicit that the Office of Education Accountability has a responsibility to periodically review personnel policies and practices relating to recruitment, selection, evaluation, termination, and promotion of personnel.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Membership and Rules of Education Assessment and Accountability Subcommittee H.B. 292 Requires the membership of the Education assessment and accountability subcommittee include 4 members from each chamber, including at least 1 member of the minority party in the chamber; provides that a majority of the membership shall constitute a quorum; pro... More... VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Revisions to Standards of Quality S.B. 201 Requires, to ensure the integrity of the standards of quality, the Board of Education is to exercise its constitutional authority to determine and prescribe the standards, subject to revision only by the General Assembly, by (i) reviewing the standards and (ii... More... WV Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Major Education Bill - Accountability/Standards Component H.B. 4319 Calls for development and implementation of a system to hold schools accountable for student performance and progress toward obtaining a high quality education. Creates a "Process for Improving Education Council" comprised of the Legislative Oversight Commiss... More... OR Signed into law 07/2001 P-12 Quality Education Commission H.B. 2295 Establishes Quality Education Commission; directs the Commission to identify quality goals for kindergarten through grade 12; directs the Commission to identify best practices for meeting goals and amount of monies sufficient to implement those practices; dire... More... FL Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Florida Education Finance Program H.B. 1545 2001-157., Requires the designation and publication of district performance grades; revises minimum requirements of the Florida Education Finance Program to include minimum classroom expenditure requirements; authorizes the Legislature to require a school dist... More... MD Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Grants for Improvement of Low-Performing Schools S.B. 64 Alters the authorized uses of Schools for Success challenge grant funds and extends the termination date provisions relative to challenge grants for school improvement. The grants are distributed by the department for use in accountability of low-performing sc... More... OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Reporting Exemptions and Teacher Pay H.B. 1433 Except for school districts with one or more school sites which are identified as low performing or high challenged, all school districts shall be exempt from reporting to the state board the following legislatively-mandated plans: Comprehensive Local Educatio... More... OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Academic Performance S.B. 810 Requires state to complete draft Academic Performance Index by July 13, 2001. On or before February 28, 2002, must file the final baseline Academic Performance Index with the governor. Makes assessments contigent on funding.... More... TX Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Public School Accountability, Various Components H.B. 1144 Requires that records relating to student performance be coordinated and maintained in standardized, compatible formats that allow the exchange of information between K-12 and higher education and throughout student educational careers; school districts must e... More... WV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Performance Audits H.B. 2934 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... More... WV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Fiscal Audits/Inspections H.B. 2225 §18-9B-13. Eliminates the requirement that audits of school boards be conducted once every three years by the office of chief inspector. The state board of school finance may assign authorized representatives to make inspections and examinations of the fisc... More... ME Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Use of Impact Fees H.B. 268 Public Law No. 38., 39 (LD 346) Clarifies that communities that are part of a school administrative district or other single or multicommunity school district may deposit the proceeds of school impact fees in a trust fund to be used to pay their proportionate ... More... NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Postsec. Audits H.B. 87 Relates to public money; provides for stratified or statistical pre- and post-audits; requires quarterly reports from local public bodies, school districts and certain institutions or higher education.... More... PA Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Interscholastic Athletic Accountability S.B. 1403 Establishes Pennsylvania Athletic Oversight Council; provides for interscholastic accountability; provides for transportation, education empowerment definitions and lists and districts; provides for empowerment pilot program.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Statewide Testing S.B. 1139 States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Bo... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Oversight S.B. 280 Requires the Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee to advise and monitor the Office of Education Accountability.... More... CA Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 Charter School Accountability S.B. 434 Requires a charter school to offer, at a minimum, a specified number of minutes of instruction for the appropriate age levels, and to maintain written contemporaneous records that document all pupil attendance and to make these records available for audit and ... More... CT Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 Promotion Policies and School Improvement Plans H.B. 7043 Requires local school boards to review and revise their promotion policies to ensure they foster student achievement, reduces social promotions, and provide help to failing students; uses Mastery Test scores to compile a list of schools that need improvements;... More... LA Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 Data Collection and Reporting Requirements S.B. 1024 Relates to annual data collection and reporting requirements of the state Department of Education.... More... NE Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 School at the Center Program L.B. 812 Provides for the implementation of educational standards and assessment for public schools, the School at the Center Program, a needs study and cost analysis for local system financial reporting, specific certificates and permits that do not require all of the... More... HI Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Performance Indicators and Achievement Goals S.B. 1307 Requires the Director of Education to establish a comprehensive accountability system, including a student assessment program and a school profile which reports on student performance measures, school attendance, dropout rates, and parental involvement for eac... More... NJ Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Expediting Adoption of Regulations for Abbott Districts S.B. 1976 Permits an expedited procedure for the adoption of regulations by the Commissioner of Education in regard to the Abbott districts for the 1999-2000 school year.... More... TX Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Financial Accountability S.B. 875 Relates to the financial accountability of school districts.... More... TX Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Performance Reviews of School Districts H.B. 2553 Relates to performance reviews of school districts by the comptroller.... More... TX Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Improving Special Education Student Performance S.B. 476 Provides that each district improvement plan must include measures to improve student performance, including students in special education programs. The Regional Service Centers are directed to maintain a core of services for purchase by school districts and ... More... TX Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Accreditation and Accountability H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part I Makes former Section 39.071 new Section 39.051, and repeals portions of existing 39.051, "Academic Excellence Indicators." Provides that in determining a district's accreditation status, the commissioner must evaluate performance on the student achievement ind... More... FL Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 A+ Plan (Part of Omnibus Bill) H.B. 751 Revises legislative intent to establish a system that is accountable for producing graduates with competencies and skills necessary to achieve the state education goals; help students meet standards for academic achievement; maintain safe, secure classroom lea... More... IN Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 Accrediting Schools According to Baldrige Criteria H.B. 1750 Provides that a school may be accredited by meeting the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Education rather than under performance based accreditation; transfers the duties of the state standards task force to the education roundtable... More... NE Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 Amends Performance Indicators L.B. 813 Sets parameters for one of the state performance indicators. Amends "(c) At least sixty percent of the graduating seniors in the local system have taken a standard college admission test" to include greater detail about the calculation of scores. One of severa... More... NM Vetoed 05/1999 P-12 Creates the Education Initiatives and Accountability Task Force H.B. 28A Creates the Education Initiatives and Accountability Task Force; provides for membership and duties; makes an appropriation.... More... WA Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 State Accountability System S.B. 5418 Declares that the accountability system should be based on continuous improvement at all levels of Washington's education system and on a fundamental principle that all students have equitable access to curriculum and instruction that is aligned to the standar... More... AR Became law without governor's signature 04/1999 P-12 Requests a Review of Arizona Public Education Task Force Recommendations S.C.R. 22 Requests the senate and house interim committees on education and the educational standards commission to conduct a thorough review of the recommendations of the Excellence in Arizona Public Education Task Force.... More... AR Signed into law 04/1999 P-12 Requires the Filing of School District Audit Reports with the County Clerk H.B. 2221 Requires the Division of Legislative Audit to provide a copy of every audit report performed on each school district to the county clerk in the county which the school district is located. Requires the county clerk to keep a copy of the audit reports on file ... More... AR Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Relates to Assessment and Accountability S.B. 751 Amends various sections of the Arkansas Code related to assessment and accountability in the public schools.... More... KS Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Kansas Commission on Education Restructuring and Accountability S.B. 32 Concerns the Kansas Commission on Education Restructuring and Accountability.... More... UT Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Creates Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability H.B. 144 Creates a task force on learning standards and accountability in public education; provides for membership; staff, duties and reporting date; appropriates funds from the General Fund; provides a repeal date.... More... VA Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Governor's Schools H.B. 2077 Provides that the Board of Education shall include consideration of special school division accomplishments, such as numbers of dual enrollments and students in advanced placement and International Baccalaureate courses, and participation in academic year Gove... More... VA Signed into law 01/1999 P-12 Amends Teacher Preparation, Evaluation and Employment Laws H.B. 2710 Relates to the Education Accountability and Quality Enhancement Act; makes a variety of changes to the statutes governing teacher preparation, evaluation and employment.... More... DE Signed into law 07/1998 P-12 S.B. 250 Educational Accountability Act of 1998 Creates the "Educational Accountability Act of 1998". Intended to reduce social promotion, reward the academic achievement of students, schools and school districts, and hold schools and school districts accountable for inadequate results.... More... HI Vetoed 07/1998 P-12 Temporary Commission on Educational Accountability H.B. 2564 Establishes temporary commission on educational accountability. Authorizes hiring retired teachers as part-time instructors. Authorizes charging a deposit fee for textbooks. Requires cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses in Department of Education reports.... More... SC Signed into law 06/1998 P-12 Performance and Accountability S.B. 850 Perfomance Accountability Relates to quality controls and productivity rewards, so as to enact the South Carolina Performance and Accountability for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Act; establishes grade specific statewide academic standards for mathematics, English/language arts, ... More... IA Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2272 Requires the state board of education to adopt rules relating to the incorporation of accountability for student achievement into the education standards and accreditation process.... More... AL Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 H.B. 717 Relates to the requirement for taking a school census; provides further for the dates of taking the census.... More... WA Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 H.B. 2849 Accountability Enhances student achievement accountability. Provides that as of 12/15/98, each School District Board of Directors shall select the reading standard results on either the 1997 or 1998 Washington assessment of student learning as the school district's initial b... More... WV Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 H.B. 4306 Provides legislative intent for establishing a process of standards, assessment, accountability and capacity building to provide assurances that a thorough and efficient system of schools is being provided.... More... MI Signed into law 12/1997 P-12 H.B. 5233 Requires MEAP and high school proficiency test scores to be used as an indicator in school improvement process; relates to supporting academic learning through professional development of teachers and administrators, collaborative efforts with supporting agenc... More... OH Signed into law 08/1997 P-12 H.B. 269 Mayor's Governing Board Allows certain urban school districts, specifically Cleveland City Schools, to be governed by a board named by the mayor. Gives the mayor authority to appoint a board to govern the district, put the current board in an advisory capacity, and then allow a refer... More... NV Died 07/1997 P-12 S.B. 241 Accountability of Public Schools Statewide Relates to education; requires the Department of Education to evalulate the performance of public schools; requires certain notice of the evaluation of a school; places a school under certain circumustances on academic probation based upon its evaluation; requ... More... NV Signed into law 07/1997 P-12 S.B. 482 Nevada Education Reform Act of 1997 Part of the Nevada Educational Reform Act of 1997--ADDITIONAL DATA: Districts to collect and report additional data concerning presence of computer technology. Average daily attendance of pupils and teachers reported. Provide a clear accounting of persons taki... More... NV Signed into law 07/1997 P-12 S.B. 482 Nevada Education Reform Act of 1997 Part of the Nevada Education Reform Act of 1997--IDENTIFICATION: Uses existing state accountability indicator system to identify schools failing to demonstrate adequate achievement. Other factors for evaluation include the review of pupil and teacher attendanc... More... NV Signed into law 07/1997 P-12 S.B. 482 Nevada Education Reform Act of 1997 Part of the Nevada Education Reform Act of 1997--LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION: Eight members: 4 Senators and 4 Assembly Members. Reviews accountability program, monitors condition of public education, education finance, SMART program, and class-size redu... More... OK Signed into law 07/1997 P-12 Education Oversight Board Recreates the Education Oversight Board; authorizing the appointment of two nonlegislative members by the governor and two legislative members each appointed by the House speaker and the Senate president pro-tempore; increasing terms from three years to five; ... More... AZ Died 06/1997 P-12 H.B. 2187 Accountability of Underachieving School Districts Provides for a plan to improve accountability of underachieving school districts; states that by December 15, 1997 the superintendent of public instruction shall submit to the President of the Senate, The Speaker of Representatives and the Governor a plan that... More... LA Signed into law 06/1997 P-12 H.B. 2450 Accountability of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools Requires the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide an annual report to each legislator ranking public elementary and secondary schools throughout the state in accordance with certain indicators.... More... NC Signed into law 06/1997 P-12 Excellent Schools Act - General Knowledge Tests, etc. Certified staff members employed in the lowest performing schools shall take a general knowledge test. Staff members who do not pass the test shall engage in a program of study and remediation. If the staff member fails the general knowledge test three times, ... More... TN Signed into law 05/1997 P-12 S.B. 405 Student Information Reporting; Dropout Reduction Requires Commissioner of Education to annually report certain information pertaining to student suspensions, expulsions and dropouts; requires certain local education agencies to develop and implement plans of action to reduce number of African American dropou... More... AR Signed into law 04/1997 P-12 S.B. 57 Relates to Arkansas education goals and performance accountability; relates to student competency, graduation rates; educational testing.... More... CT Signed into law 04/1997 P-12 S.B. 1200 Dissolves the Hartford Board of Education and establishes the State Board of Trustees for the Hartford Public Schools to take its place; transfers all contracts, powers, and duties connected with the dissolved Board of Education to the Board of Trustees and gi... More... IN Died 04/1997 P-12 H.B. 2026 Allows a local school corporation to determine curriculum requirements and other educational issues for the school corporation. Requires a curriculum to meet certain state standards. Requires each public school to meet certain academic and attendance standards... More... NM Signed into law 04/1997 P-12 S.B. 997 Amends the school district accountability report to require the State Board of Education to establish the format of the reports and ensure that relevant data are provided; repeals sections of the accountability report; requires the State Board of Education to ... More... AR Signed into law 02/1997 P-12 H.B. 1135 Requires more detailed dropout information be included in the annual school district report card; requires local school districts to file dropout information with the Regional Selective Service Agency.... More... VA Died 02/1997 P-12 H.B. 1662 Accountability of Public Instruction Requires the superintendent of Public Instruction to include in educational performance criteria standards for determinations of substantial impairment of quality education; provides a hearing for any school demonstration "substantial impairment"; allows "scho... More... DE Signed into law 07/1996 P-12 S.B. 275 Public School Accountability Establishes a process for the publication of school profiles to give public school parents and students and taxpayers accurate, informative and relevant information regarding the public school system; requires the Department of Public Instruction to gather the... More... FL Signed into law 06/1996 P-12 H.B. 1009 Accountability (Effective: 07/01/96) Provides responsibility of the State Board of Education to implement a system of school improvement and accountability and authorizes intervention in, and recommendations to, district school systems with low performing schools.... More... FL Became law without governor's signature 06/1996 P-12 Performance and Management Review S.B. 1044 State Accountability Requires the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to contract with private firms to conduct performance and management reviews of school districts to identify ways to save funds, improve management strategies, and increase efficiency... More... NC Signed into law 06/1996 P-12 S.B. 1139 Accountability for Public Schools Implements the ABCs Plan in order to establish an accountability model for the public schools to improve student performance and increase local flexibility and control. Makes an appropriation.... More... FL Died 03/1996 P-12 H.B. 451 School Improvement and Education Accountability Amends provision reimplementation of state system of school improvement and education accountability; provides for waiver of certain statutes for 5 year period upon approval by Education Commissioner.... More... HI Active 03/1996 P-12 Comprehensive Assessment and Accountability System (CAAS) In order for schools and the school system to have sufficient information for making systematic rather than fragmented improvements, the Department of Education shall develop and establish a Comprehensive Assessment and Accountability System that integrates in... More... KY Signed into law 03/1996 P-12 H.B. 461 Secondary Education (Effective: 03/29/96) Relates to high school equivalency diplomas,to create a high school external diploma that may be obtained by persons twenty-five(25) years or older as an alternative to the GED program and requires one hundred percent(100%) mastery on com... More... SC Died 02/1996 P-12 H.B. 4597 South Carolina School Accountability Act of 1996 Gives schools and districts greater control over education decisions, and evaluates funding needs in exchange for increased accountability for results. The Act sets high benchmarks for student achievement. Schools that meet these benchmarks would be designated... More... AZ Died 01/1996 P-12 S.B. 1379 Parental Satisfaction With Public Schools Directs Department of Education to survey parents to see if they are satisfied with public schools.... More... ID Died 01/1996 P-12 S.B. 1291 & 1292 Accountability Report Cards Both Bills, 1291 and 1292 deal with Accountability/Report Cards, but bill 1291, repeals existing law which requires a school accountability report card, and bill 1292, amends existing law to provide that the school accountability report card is optional for th... More... ID Signed into law 01/1996 P-12 S.B. 1400 School Accountability Report Card Amends existing law to provide that the school accountability report card is optional for the school district and may be required by the board of trustees.... More... VT Died 01/1996 P-12 H.B. 676 Establishment of Goals, Standards, and Assessment Tools for Students Establishes goals, standards, and assessment tools for students; requires school districts to report annually on their performance and financial situation to their communities; allows the State Board of Education to waive any law of statute for any school dist... More... AL Signed into law 07/1995 P-12 Chapter 16-6B Education Accountability Plan The Legislature finds that the people of Alabama desire two basic things from their public schools: 1) high achievement for students 2) safe and orderly environment in which to learn. The Legislature encourages the State Board of Education to assist local boar... More... NC Signed into law 07/1995 P-12 H.B. 6/S.B. 99 School Flexibility and Accountability (Effective: 07/18/95) An act to grant additional management flexibility to local boards of education, to ensure that local boards of education are held accountable for the use of that flexibility to assess the relationship between expenditures for public schoo... More... IL Signed into law 05/1995 P-12 H.B. 206 1995 Chicago School Reform Act Implements the 1995 Chicago School Reform Act, replaces the Chicago Board of Education with a 5 person Board of Trustees, revises administrative and collective bargaining procedures, bans strikes and authorizes interventions in certain schools not meeting stat... More... KS Signed into law 05/1995 P-12 H.B. 2173 Elementary and Secondary H.B. 2173, as it pertains to accreditation of schools, eliminated the statutory listing of the ten outcomes of the school accreditation system (outcomes are determined by the State Board of Education), removed the mandate for state assessments in "speaking" an... More... MS Passed 05/1995 P-12 Policy for Withholding Funds for Failure to Submit Student, Fiscal and Personal Data (Effective: 06/21/95) Establishes a policy for withholding funds for failure to submit student, fiscal and personnel data.... More... GA Signed into law 04/1995 P-12 H.B. 145 State Grants to Local School Systems on the Basis of Achievement, Article 6, Chapter 2, Title 20, Section 1 The State Board of Education shall provide qualified public elementary and secondary schools and local school systems with incentive award grants, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly. The purpose of such grants shall be to give recognition to publ... More... GA Signed into law 04/1995 P-12 H.B. 145 State Grants to Local School Systems on the Basis of Achievement, Article 6, Chapter 2, Title 20, Section 3 The State Board of Education shall supervise a comprehensive evaluation of each public school, local school system, and regional educational service agency at least once every five years concerning the following functions to the extent they are deemed by the s... More... ND Signed into law 03/1995 P-12 H.B. 1270 - Performance Standards and Assessments Repeals student performance standards and assessments and school district policies and plans for participating in school decisionmaking (15-21-04.6 and 15-29-08.3).... More... KY Signed into law 06/1994 P-12 KRS 158.6455 "Schools in crisis" Requires that a school in which the proportion of successful students declines by five percent (5%) or more in any biennium beginning with the 1994-96 biennium shall be declared by the Kentucky Board of Education to be a "school in crisis." In addition, outlin... More... NV Signed into law 06/1994 P-12 S.B. 511 Accountability Changes the law concerning the accountability program for public schools. The statute is expanded to require each school district to report each year to the residents of the district and the state board of education concerning specific information on education... More... NV Signed into law 06/1994 P-12 A.B. 290 Accountability Requires the State Board of Education to establish a pilot program to evaluate the feasibility of transferring the responsibility of public school management decisions to administrators, staff members and parents at individual schools. The purpose of the progr... More... Accountability--Accreditation TX Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Investigation of Alleged Inaccurate Data Being Reported S.B. 123 Permits (previously required) the commissioner of education to authorize special accreditation investigations under specified circumstances. Authorizes a special accreditation investigation to be conducted in response to a complaint to the agency regarding all... More... VA Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Statewide School Division: The Opportunity Educational Institution S.B. 1324  Creates a statewide school division called the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board (also established by this bill). Requires any school that has been denied accreditation and p... More... MT Vetoed 04/2013 P-12 Processes for Changes to Any Accreditation Standard S.B. 302 SB 302 requires the Board of Public Education (BPE), prior to adoption or amendment of any accreditation standard, to submit proposals to the Education and Local Government Interim Committee (ELG). During periods that the legislature is not in regular session,... 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... MT Adopted 10/2012 P-12 Accreditation, Including Teacher Evaluation ARM 10.55.601-1003 Modifies accreditation. One modification deletes old section on teacher evaluation and replaces with new. Requires that evaluation system for licensed staff: (i) be conducted at least annually for nontenure staff and on a regular schedule adopted by the distri... More... MT Adopted 10/2012 P-12 Assessment Required for Accrediation ARM 10.56.101 Chapter 55 Accreditation Standards provide a framework to ensure the constitutional right of every Montana student to a basic system of free quality public schools that develops the full educational potential of every student and that 1. recognizes the uniquen... More... ID Adopted 05/2012 P-12 Rules Governing School Accreditation and Uniformity ID ADC 08.02.02.140 All public secondary schools, serving any grade(s) 9-12, will be accredited. Accreditation is voluntary for elementary schools, grades K-8, and private and parochial schools. Schools will develop continuous school improvement plans focused on the improvement ... 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... OK Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Temporary Waiver for Certain Mandates S.B. 1443 Extends the period during which schools cannot be penalized or denied accreditation for failure to comply with certain standards such as textbook adoption. Allows schools to not comply with certain education mandates for two more years --until June 30, 2013, a... More... ID Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Creating a Process to Ensure all Schools can Participate in State Functions Such as Playoffs S.B. 1301 Directs the state department of education to define and implement a process outlining secondary school accreditation requirements for the purpose of participation in extra-curricular activities so as to remove current regulatory barriers to schools' ability to... More... VA Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 High School Accreditation; Industry Certifications H.B. 642/S.B. 514 Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations adjusting the formula for calculating the final high school accreditation status to add points for each student obtaining a diploma and certain industry certifications, state licensure, or occupational crede... More... NH Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Accountability Standards met with NEASC Accreditation H.B. 130 Allows a school to demonstrate compliance with New Hampshire's input-based school accountability standards by furnishing evidence that it has received full accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC); a school may demonstrate... More... NC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 High School Accrediation H.B. 342 Provides that the State Board of Education (SBE) is an authorized accrediting entity for public schools. Requires the SBE to adopt rigorous academic standards for accrediation taking into consideration: (1) Standards of regional and national accrediting agenci... More... ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Certification System for Public and Nonpublic Schools H.B. 1029 Establishes a certification system for the approval of public and nonpublic schools. Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold state aid from public schools that are not in compliance. If a nonpublic school is not in compliance, the Super... More... AR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Charter School Reporting S.B. 436 Requires a public charter school to annually submit a report detailing: (1) The number of applications for enrollment received; (2) The number of applicants with a disability identified under the Individuals with Disabilities Act; (3) The number of application... More... VA Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Alternative Accreditation H.B. 2494 Provides that any school board, on behalf of one or more of its schools, may request from the Board of Education releases from state regulations and approval of an individual School Accreditation Plan. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2494... More... VA Signed into law 02/2011 P-12 Delayed Implementation of Certain Statutes and Regulations H.B. 1554/S.B. 810 Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based that were not already in effect on June 30, 2008, with the exception of the graduation and completion rate index and the ec... More... TX Adopted 07/2010 P-12 Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions 19 TAC 97.1051-1073 Makes various changes to state accountability provisions. Language below primarily from July 23, 2010 Texas Register. 97.1051: Amends definitions. Changes the definition of "campus closure" to remove references to "repurposing," which is now defined in statute... More... MO Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Accreditation H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions In fiscal years 2011 through 2013, the Department of Education cannot penalize a school district on its accreditation review for failing to achieve resource standards if the school funding formula or transportation categorical is underfunded as specified and t... More... MS Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Schools At Risk H.B. 1097 Requires the Department of Education to provide assistance to certain schools not meeting adequate performance of accreditation standards. Requires schools at-risk to be identified by specified criteria. Authorizes evaluation teams to conduct on- site audits. ... More... IA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Deaccreditation of Districts and/or Nonpublic Schools S.B. 2289 Allows for the deaccreditation of districts or nonpublic schools. Allows the director of the department of education to order the positive fund balances held by a deaccredited school district to be transferred to the school's general fund if the school's gener... More... VA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Delaying Implementation of Certain Statutes H.B. 111/S.B. 352 Relates to delayed implementation of certain statutes and regulations upon which accreditation is based, with the exception of the graduation and completion rate index, unless such statutes or regulations are also specifically required by federal code, federal... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Special Accreditation Investigations H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part II Adds to circumstances under which special accreditation investigations must be conducted. Directs the commissioner to authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted when: (1) A significant pattern of decreased academic performance has develope... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Assistance to Low-Performing Districts and Schools H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part IV Amends language regarding actions the commissioner may take as regards a district that does not satisfy accreditation criteria, academic performance standards or any financial accountability standard. Provides that the commissioner may order the preparation of... More... CO Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 School Accountability and Accreditation S.B. 163 Repeals and reenacts the Educational Accreditation Act of 1998 to align accountability and accreditation measures and procedures; assigns specified related duties to the State Board of Education in regard to accountability to include measuring student academic... More... IA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Accreditation S.B. 360 Relates to the accreditation of school districts and nonpublic schools and the reorganization of school districts. If a recommendation is for the district to no longer be accredited, requires a list of deficiencies and a list of available resources for technic... More... MS Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 School District Accreditation Levels S.B. 2308 Relates to school district accreditation levels; revises accreditation terminology. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2308SG.pdf... More... VA Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Delay of Accreditation Implementation H.B. 2166 Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes, regulations and standards upon which the accreditation of schools or school divisions in the Commonwealth is based that are not already in effect; relates to passing rates for full accreditation based on ass... More... TX Adopted 12/2007 P-12 Accountability 19 TAC Chapter 97 Adopts new 19 TAC Chapter 97, Planning and Accountability, Subchapter EE, Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions. The new subchapter defines the accreditation statuses of Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation, and Not Accredited-Revoked a... More... UT Adopted 08/2007 P-12 Accreditation of Secondary Schools R277-413 Deletes previous Northwest Association of Accredited Schools and State Board of Education accreditation standards and provides newly revised standards. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bull_pdf/2007/b20070701.pdf (p.12)... More... SD Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Expands Use of State Institute Fund S.B. 68 Adds support activities related to school accreditation and teacher training and retention to the list of purposes for use of the State Institute Fund by the Department of Education. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB68enr.pdf... More... VA Rule Adoption 07/2006 P-12 Standards For Accrediting Public Schools 8 VAC 20-131-10 thru -320 non seq. Amends regulations establishing standards for accrediting public schools in Virginia. The amendments include additional options for students to meet the requirements for graduation; change the methodology for calculating accreditation ratings; create greater ... More... WV Rule Adoption 06/2006 P-12 Performance Based Accreditation System Title 126, Series 13 Amends rules regarding a process for improving education and a performance-based accreditation system. http://www.wvsos.com/csrdocs/pdfdocs/126-013.pdf ... More... KS Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School Accreditation and Resource Allocation S.B. 549 - Section 1 Provides that whenever the state board determines that a school has failed either to meet the accreditation requirements or standards adopted by the state board or provide the curriculum required by state law, the state board must notify the district in which ... More... MO Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Lapse of Provisional Accrediation S.B. 894 If a school district has been classified as unaccredited within the previous five school years and the district is subsequently classified as provisionally accredited, the district will be subject to lapse on June 30 of any school year in which the state board... More... MI Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 New High School Graduation Requirements H.B. 5606 Establishes statewide high school graduation requirements effective with the class of 2010, including 4 units English; 3 units science, including biology and either chemistry or physics. Strongly encourages students to complete a fourth credit in science, such... More... MS Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Exempting Level 4 or 5 Accredited Districts from Certain Requirements H.B. 1121 Relates to school districts; establishes home rule; exempts Level 4 or 5 accredited districts from certain requirements. Authorizes the State Board of Education to exempt any school district meeting Level 4 or 5 state accreditation standards from any compulsor... More... WV Rule Adoption 07/2005 P-12 Performance Based Accreditation System Title 126, Series 13 Amends rules relating to a performance based accreditation system to improve education. WEST VIRGINIA REG 4602 (SN)... More... CO Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Accreditation Indicators and Dropout/Graduation Rates S.B. 91 Standardizes the calculation of graduation rates and dropout rates that are required to be reported by school districts for accreditation. Standardizes and requires the reporting of continuing education rates and mobility rates by school districts for accredit... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations S.B. 214 (Section 1-2) Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Requires the evaluation to include: (1) The impact of the accountability systems on learning and teach... 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... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation S.B. 214 (Section 7-8) Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation added by paragraph (d), section 22-7-604.3. Section 8: Creates new paragraph (d) in section 22-7-604.3. States that a diagn... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Accreditation Standards H.B. 2757 Requires the department of education to conduct an on-campus Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools review for each school district in the state at least once every four years. Authorizes the department of education to visit any school campus f... More... KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 H.B. 2247 (section 6) Requires every accredited school to teach the subjects and areas of instruction adopted by the state board of education as of January 1, 2005. Requires every accredited high school to also teach the subjects and areas of instruction necessary to meet the gradu... More... KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 2010 Commission H.B. 2247 (section 7-9) Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to: (a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per... More... OH Rule Adoption 10/2004 P-12 Accreditation of Education Programs OAC 4715-12-04 Amends rules regarding accreditation of education programs, applications, fees, suspensions, and revocations. OHIO REG 11562 (SN)... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Special Education in Private Schools A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions) Require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct an investigation onsite at any time without prior notice when there is substantial reason to believe that there is an immediate danger to the health, safety, or welfare of a child, and to monitor the ... 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... WV Rule Adoption 07/2004 P-12 Performance Based Accreditation System Title 126, Series 13 Amends rules regarding a process for improving education through a performance based accreditation system. WEST VIRGINIA REG 4415 (SN)... More... VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Standards of Quality S.B. 479, H.B. 1014 Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students... More... AR Rule Adoption 11/2003 P-12 Standards for Accreditation of Public Schools ADE 156 Establishes rules governing standards of accreditation of Arkansas public schools. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20156%20standards.pdf... More... AR Rule Adoption 06/2003 P-12 Standards/Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools Uncodified Establishes rules regarding standards for accreditation of Arkansas public schools; describes the process for how public schools or districts will be cited or placed in probationary status for failure to meet standards of accreditation; establishes enforcement... More... TX Rule Adoption 05/2003 P-12 Youth Commission Schools 37 TAC 91.41 Amends rules concerning education administration. Clarifies that Youth Commission schools are accredited under certain provisions. TEXAS REG 85576 (SN)... More... AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Quality Education Act of 2003 - Accreditation H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill) Amends §§ 6-15-202 - 6-15-209. Revises state accreditation regulations and consequences for schools and districts failing to meet Arkansas Standards of Accreditation. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2697.pdf... More... AR Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2003 P-12 Emergency Amendment to Standards of Accreditation ADE 153 Allow the Arkansas State Board of Education to waive the minimum of 178 days required in the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools for the purposes of professional development or natural necessity due to inclement weather, fire, natural disast... 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... 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... VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Guidance Counselors, Reading Specialists H.B. 1136 Amends the Standards of Quality to require, within the Standards of Accreditation, guidance counselors in elementary schools at the following staffing levels: one hour per day per 100 students, one full-time at 500 students, and one hour per day additional tim... More... CA Signed into law 10/2001 P-12 Posting Information on losing accreditation A.B. 1725 Chapter No.598, Requires a school board to give official notice at a school board meeting if a public school within the district that has elected to be accredited loses its accreditation. Requires written notice to parents or guardians of students if a school ... More... NV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Exemption from Accreditation S.B. 223 Exempts elementary and secondary education institutions operated by churches, religious organizations and faith-based ministries from requirements of the Private Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization Act. Before a child enrolls in an institution th... More... ND Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Waivers S.B. 2166 Allows any school or school district to apply to the superintendent of public instruction for a waiver of any rule governing the accreditation of schools, provided the waiver encourages innovation, has the potential to result in improved education opportuniti... More... NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Accreditation Process S.B. 661 Increases the cycle of accreditation from three years to six years. The language in the bill leaves the cycle open so that some schools can be visited more often than the current three years, and some less often. These changes support an effort to shift the fo... More... AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Minimum Wage for School Employees H.B. 2553 From the legislation: FULL-TIME CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE SHALL NOT RECEIVE AN HOURLY RATE OF COMPENSATION LESS THAN SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS ($ 6.25) PER HOUR. ... More... MT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Multiyear accreditation of schools; accreditation of 7th and 8th grades funded at high school rates H.B. 103 Allows for multiyear accreditation of schools; requires compliance with teacher certification laws to receive multiyear accreditation; provides for accreditation of 7th and 8th grades funded at high school rates.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Admission Contingent on Accreditation S.B. 1324 Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation pursuant to the Standards of Accreditation promulgated by the board of education shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student gradua... More... VA Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Using Accreditation as Factor for Admission H.B. 2144 Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student graduating from such high school to a public institution of higher education in Virgini... More... CO Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 State Board Accreditation of Schools H.B. 1219 Concerns accreditation by the State Board of Education; provides that the Board of Education will appraise and accredit school districts in this state and submit recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly for improvements in education.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Accreditation Standards H.B. 2474 Provides for the adoption of administrative rules; requires school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies relating to health services, media services programs and guidance programs as part of the accreditation standards applicable to scho... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Transfer of Credits, Accreditation H.B. 987 Provides that the Board of Education recognizes, for purposes of facilitating the transfer of academic credits for students who have attended private schools and are now enrolling in public schools and to satisfy the accreditation requirement for an exemption ... More... LA Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 Postsec. Repeals Exemption from Board of Regents' Requirements H.B. 615 Repeals exemption for certain postsecondary academic degree-granting institutions from Board of Regents' registration and licensure requirements.... More... TX Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Accreditation and Accountability H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part I Makes former Section 39.071 new Section 39.051, and repeals portions of existing 39.051, "Academic Excellence Indicators." Provides that in determining a district's accreditation status, the commissioner must evaluate performance on the student achievement ind... More... IN Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 Accrediting Schools According to Baldrige Criteria H.B. 1750 Provides that a school may be accredited by meeting the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Education rather than under performance based accreditation; transfers the duties of the state standards task force to the education roundtable... More... KS Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Evaluation and Accreditation S.B. 37 Concerns school district self-evaluation and accreditation.... More... MS Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Student Promotion and Accreditation Standards S.B. 2156 Authorizes student assessment standards for student promotion and graduation in the public schools; defines standards for the implementation of a performance-based accreditation system for individual schools and school districts; requires any school district u... More... IA Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2272 Requires the state board of education to adopt rules relating to the incorporation of accountability for student achievement into the education standards and accreditation process.... More... MS Died 05/1998 P-12 Mississippi Report Card S.B. 2836 Accountability Requires that the annual Mississippi Report Card shall include a special report assessing the implementation of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program in all school districts with less than a level III accreditation; authorizes the child prep to develop an... More... MS Died 05/1998 P-12 S.B. 2082 Accreditation Requires the State Board of Education to wxempt school districts meeting level 4 or 5 accreditation from xompulsory accreditation standards established by ruleof regulation inless the standard specifically applies to those district; exempts school districts me... More... CO Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 H.B. 1267 Accreditation Process Requires the State Board of Education to implement a school accreditation process that focuses on student achievement results on standards-based tests. Requires each school district to enter into an accreditation contract with the State Board which defines the... More... VA Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 H.B. 356 Requires the Board of Education to include in the student outcome measures, which are required by the Standards for Accreditation; end of course tests for various grade levels and classes, as determined by the Board; assessments must include but not limited to... More... MO Died 05/1997 P-12 H.B. 759 Accreditation Standards Requires that the school classification requirements and accreditation standards be approved by the General Assembly before a school may be refused accreditation. Standards must be uniform for all schools. A school whose students score above the fiftieth perce... More... VA Vetoed 03/1997 P-12 H.B. 2213 Standards of Accreditation Provies that no revisions to the Standards of Accreditation for public schools shall be implemented prior to July 1, 1998.... More... MS Died 02/1997 P-12 S.B. 2127 Performance-Based Standards, Workforce-Education Act Eliminates performance-bsed standards of public school accreditation. Repeals Workforce-Education Act.... More... TN Signed into law 03/1996 P-12 H.B. 29/S.B. 605 Accreditation Organization (Effective: 03/13/96) Adds Tennessee Association of Church Related Schools to the list of standards organizations which a church related school may apply for accreditation.... More... TX Passed 01/1996 P-12 19 TAC 97.1-97.7 Education Agency/Planning and Accreditation (Effective: 09/01/96) Proposes new 97.1-97.7, concerning planning and accreditation. Establishes definitions, requirements, and procedures related to: the purpose of accreditation; accreditation status; campus performance ratings; and placing on probation or r... More... HI Signed into law 06/1995 P-12 S.B. 995 Establishment and Supervision of Private Schools Relates to the establishment and supervision of private schools; requires application to a Board of Independent Schools, which shall be registered with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.... More... HI Passed 06/1995 P-12 Accreditation Transfers the supervision of Hawaii's private schools from the state education department to a board of independent schools.... More... KS Signed into law 05/1995 P-12 H.B. 2173 Elementary and Secondary H.B. 2173, as it pertains to accreditation of schools, eliminated the statutory listing of the ten outcomes of the school accreditation system (outcomes are determined by the State Board of Education), removed the mandate for state assessments in "speaking" an... More... OK Signed into law 05/1995 P-12 H.B. 1441 Public School Accreditation Deletes from public school accreditation provision language relating to standards consistent of an outcome-oriented approach to accreditation; deletes language relating to outcomes-based curriculum standards.... More... GA Signed into law 04/1995 P-12 H.B. 145 State Grants to Local School Systems on the Basis of Achievement, Article 6, Chapter 2, Title 20, Section 3 The State Board of Education shall supervise a comprehensive evaluation of each public school, local school system, and regional educational service agency at least once every five years concerning the following functions to the extent they are deemed by the s... More... Accountability--Measures/Indicators NH Signed into law 07/2013 P-12 School Performance and Accountability S.B. 48 Provides that schools shall meet or exceed performance targets based on student assessments, attendance, and high school graduation rates. Establishes definitions of "priority school" and "focus school." Repeals the local education improvement fund established... More... CT Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Low Performing District - Including Charter Schools in Accountability H.B. 6622 Allows a school district designated as an alliance district (chool district is among those with the lowest academic performance) to mutually agree with a charter school within the district to use academic achievement scores of the charter school's students as ... More... IA Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Attendance Center Peformance Rankings H.F. 215 - Division VII Section 73 relates to attendance center peformance rankings: Requires the creation of a Building Performance program – provides accountability at the building level by giving ratings based on student achievement and growth, graduation rates, student and parent... 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... NV Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Repealing Accountability Provisions A.B. 460 Repeals provisions related to consequences for public schools and school districts based upon adequate yearly progress (AYP) designations. Previously, public schools and school districts were designated as demonstrating (1) exemplary achievement; (2) high ach... More... TX Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Students in Residential Facilities and District Accountability S.B. 306 Provides that a student receiving treatment in a residential facility is not considered for accountability purposes to be a student of the school district in which the program or facility is physically located, or of an open-enrollment charter school. http://w... More... TX Vetoed 06/2013 P-12 Texas High Performance Schools Consortium H.B. 2824 From fiscal note: Requires the participants of the Texas Higher Performance Schools Consortium to submit a report by December 2014 and by December 2016 on the progress participating campuses have made in achieving certain goals as outlined in the legislation. ... More... TX Vetoed 06/2013 P-12 Assessment Instruments H.B. 2836 From fiscal note: Requires each assessment instrument to be determined to be valid and reliable on the basis of empirical evidence by an entity that is independent of the test developer and the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Requires assessment instruments to b... More... MN Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 District Performance Measures H.F. 630 Provides performance measures to ensure that districts collectively produce the "world's best workforce." Performance measures include student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP), the size of the academic achievement gap by s... More... MN Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 College and Career Readiness Performance Measures H.F. 630 Directs the commission to identify and report measures that demontrate success of learning year program providers in improving students' graduation outcomes. The commissioner, beginning July 1, 2015, must annually report data on four- and six-year graduation r... 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... TX Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Evaluating Dropout Recovery Schools S.B. 1538 Defines "dropout recovery school" for purposes of evaluating performance. Directs the commissioner of education to use the alternative completion rate to determine the student achievement indicator for a dropout recovery school. Directs the commissioner in det... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Postsec. Pilot Outcome-based Funding S.B. 1293 AN ACT prescribing a simulated pilot program for outcome-based funding of schools. Creates a competitive application process where districts and charter schools would apply on an annual basis by January 1 and the State Board of Education select recipients by M... More... NM Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Postsec. Data in School Accountability Reports H.B. 112 Partially from bill analysis: Amends reporting requirements for P-12 and postsecondary accountability. Requires the higher education department (HED) to disaggregate student progress and success in the annual accountability report by specified racial/ethnic gr... More... NM Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 School Rating Modified Assessment Formula S.B. 370 Partially from bill analysis: Amends existing law that relates to school ratings to include public schools whose enrollment includes at least 75% of any combination of students with a history or family history of incarceration or extended or significant involv... More... OK Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Online Student Performance Reported Separately H.B. 1071 The Academic Performance Index (API) is used to measure performance of schools. This bill excludes the academic performance of certain online students when determining an Academic Performance Index. The academic performance of students who are enrolled full-ti... 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... WA Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Establishing Statewide Indicators of Educational Health S.B. 5491 Establishes statewide indicators of educational system health and requires the state board, with assistance from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the workforce training and education coordinating board, the educational opportunity gap ov... More... AL Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 Innovative School Systems H.B. 84 - Innovative School Systems Establishes the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013. Authorizes innovative schools and school systems to be established in Alabama in accordance with this act. Defines "innovation plan" as a school system's flexibility request and plan for annual accountability... More... NM Vetoed 03/2013 P-12 State School Grades Council S.B. 587 Partially from the bill analysis: Creates a 21-member state school grades council to study and make recommendations on school grading. Defines a number of terms, among them: "grade factor" means an element of a public school environment that is used to calcula... 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 Testing, Graduation Rates and Accountability LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 3, §§301, 302, 303, 307, Chapters 4, 5, 6 Reflects new policy as a result of the ESEA flexibility request approved for implementation by the U.S. Department of Education. For K-8 schools, the school performance score will consist of an assessment index (95%) and a dropout/credit accumulation index (5%... More... AK Adopted 11/2012 P-12 Repeals Performance Incentives, Modifies Growth and Proficiency Index 4 AAC 33.500-590 Repeals the Public School Performance Incentive Program, redefines the purpose of the public school growth and proficiency index, and alters the value number table used in calculating the index. http://education.alaska.gov/regs/filed/4AAC_33.500.pdf... More... CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 Accountability, Dropout Recovery High Schools A.B. 1668 From bill summary: Changes the definition of a dropout recovery high school to mean a school offering instruction in any of grades 9-12 in which 50% or more of pupils are either designated as dropouts or left a school and were not otherwise enrolled in a schoo... 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... LA Adopted 09/2012 P-12 Accountability Measures LAC 28:LXXXIII.409, 705, 707, and 3301 From Louisiana Register: Amends provisions in "Calculating a 9-12 Assessment Index." Provides detail on how incentive points will be earned for End-of-Course (EOC) tests taken during middle school. Provides detail on proficiency levels for the Annual Measurabl... 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... CT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 School Performance Measures S.B. 458 (Sec. 18) Revamps the education accountability law post-NCLB (renamed as the performance management and support plan), regarding identifying school districts in need of improvement and creates new categories of schools based on student performance on statewide... More... LA Adopted 05/2012 P-12 Assessment System LAC 28:LXXXIII.409, 515, 707, 3501, 3503, and 3507 From May 2012 Louisiana Register: Removes references in LAC 28:LXXXIII. §409 ("Calculating a 9-12 Assessment Index"), §515 ("State Assessments and Accountability"), §707 ("Safe Harbor"), and §3501 ("Alternative Schools," i.e., including alternative schools in ... More... NM Adopted 05/2012 pre-K-12 Grading of Public Schools 6.19.8 NMAC Amends rule 6.19.8 NMAC 'Grading of Public Schools,' which was adopted on December 15, 2011 and implemented the 'A-B-C-D-F Schools Rating Act.' Defines "Supplemental accountability model" or "SAM" as any schools that qualify for a modified accountability calcu... More... OK Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Advanced Placement Participation and Scores Included as Metrics H.B. 2494 Specifies that participation and scores in Advanced Placement courses whether taught at a high school, technology center or regional site of the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics will be used to help determine the letter grade a school will receive th... 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... MN Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Repealed - Office of Educational Accountability H.F. 2949 Repealed statute which created and funded the Independent Office of Educational Accountability, which advised the legislative education committees on the degree to which the statewide educational accountability and reporting system included a comprehensive ass... More... NE Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Quality Education Accountability Act L.B. 870 - Multiple Measures Section Provide for an accountability system to measure school performance under the Quality Education Accountability Act. Requires by August 1, 2012, that the state board establish an accountability system to measure the performance of schools and districts. Requires... 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... SD Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 State Accountability System S.B. 25 Creates a new state accountability system for public elementary and secondary schools to hold public schools accountable for student achievement and ensure that all public schools make yearly progress. Yearly progress will be measured by multiple indicators... More... VA Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 High School Accreditation; Industry Certifications H.B. 642/S.B. 514 Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations adjusting the formula for calculating the final high school accreditation status to add points for each student obtaining a diploma and certain industry certifications, state licensure, or occupational crede... 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... CA Vetoed 10/2011 P-12 Size of Pupil Subgroups for Purposes of API Reporting S.B. 512 From bill summary: Requires that reporting for purposes of the Academic Performance Index (API) include performance data for pupil subgroups of 10 or more pupils with valid test scores (previous provision required either at least 50 students with a valid test ... More... CA Vetoed 10/2011 P-12 Education Quality Index S.B. 547 From bill summary: Makes provisions relating to the Academic Performance Index (API) inoperative on July 1, 2014, and repeals them as of January 1, 2015. Requires the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with a specified advisory committee, to... More... CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 Dropout Recovery High Schools and Individual Pupil Growth Model A.B. 180 From bill summary: Existing law requires the superintendent of public instruction, with approval of the state board, to develop an alternative accountability system for specified types of schools, including, among others, community day schools and continuation... More... TX Adopted 07/2011 P-12 Performance-Based Monitoring Analysis System 19 TAC 97.1005 Adopts excerpted sections of the Performance-Based Monitoring Analysis System (PBMAS) 2011 Manual. From Texas Register: The 2011 PBMAS includes several key changes from the 2010 system. The phase-in of TAKS-Modified and TAKS-Alternate performance results is re... More... TX Adopted 07/2011 P-12 Accountability Rating System 19 TAC 97.1001 Adopts the 2011 Accountability Manual. Provides earlier versions of the manual will remain in effect with respect to the school years for which they were developed. According to the July 22, 2011 Texas Register, "In 2011, campuses and districts will be evaluat... 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... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Graduation Rates S.B. 2 Instructs the state board to adopt a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate and extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rate to establish a uniform definition of high school graduation rate. Requires the state board to adopt percentage growth targets for h... More... NM Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 School Accountability Ratings S.B. 427 Creates the A-B-C-D-E-F rating system to grade public schools in a way that is easily understandable to parents, school personnel and the community. Establishes the criteria for rating schools; provides funding for failing schools to implement programs linked ... 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 Accountability Indicators S.F. 70--Indicators Wyoming Accountability in Education Act--Established through legislation and implemented by Department of Education. PHASE 1 --Establishes "core indicators of student performance" at the school level: Reading measured by proficiency assessment of Wyoming st... 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... CA Vetoed 09/2010 P-12 Including Primary Language Assessment in State Assessment/Accountability System S.B. 930 From bill summary: Requires that any primary language assessment developed by the department and administered to limited English proficient students, as identified pursuant to existing law, on or after July 1, 2013, be included in the state's assessment system... More... CA Vetoed 08/2010 P-12 Determining Graduation Rates in Lowest-Achieving Schools A.B. 2083 Existing law provides that persistently lowest-achieving schools include a high school with a graduation rate below 60% in each of the last three years. New provision provides that, until data become available to enable the calculation of this graduation rate,... 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... 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... LA Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Exclusion of Student Data in School Accountability S.B. 112 Prohibits inclusion of performance data related to students educated in office of juvenile residential centers, justice detention centers, or office of juvenile justice facilities in the school or district performance scores of the public school system where s... 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... AZ Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 School Achievement Profiles S.B. 1286 Relates to school and school district accountability. Changes the classifications used for school achievement profiles and specifies the data used for their calculation. Expands the Arizona Measure of Academic Progress to high schools and requires the departme... More... CA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Academic Performance Index and Student Growth Measurements S.B. 1E - Section 7 By January 2011, directs the superintendent and state board, in consultation with the advisory committee established through 52052.5(a), to make recommendations to the legislature and governor on approaches to increase the emphasis on science and math in calcu... More... NE Adopted 01/2010 P-12 Quality Indicators Related to State System of Accreditation Title 92, NAC Chapter 10 - Multiple Provisions Adds quality indicators to major provisions. For example, 004.01 K-12 Curriculum. Quality Indicator: The curriculum is comprehensive, coordinated, and sequential and is directed toward locally approved goals and standards for student learning. The instructiona... More... OH Signed into law 12/2009 P-12 Charter School Accountability During First Two Years of Operation H.B. 19 - Community Schools Amends accountability provisions applicable to charter schools. When determining whether a community school meets triggers for certain accountability sanctions, bars the state department of education from considering a community school's performance ratings du... More... OH Signed into law 12/2009 P-12 Charter Schools H.B. 218 - Charter Schools Authorizes specified community schools (charter schools) to operate as conversion schools. Authorizes the governing authority of specified community schools to enter into a contract with a different sponsor that is either a local board, governing board of an e... More... CA Vetoed 10/2009 P-12 Including Improving English Proficiency in State Accountability System A.B. 1435 Relates to the advisory committee on the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. By July 2010, directs the advisory committee ... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Annual Report on Dropouts S.B. 651 Requires the superintendent of public instruction by August 2011 to submit a report called the Annual Report on Dropouts in the state. Requires, among other things, the report contain specified information on: one-year dropout rates for grades 7-12, four-year ... 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... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Report Card Data on College and Work Readiness H.B. 1 - Section 105.01/3302.032 Repeals 3302.032, which directed the state board, by June 30, 2012, to select one or more methods of measuring high school graduates' preparedness for higher education and the workforce. Required district and building performance on each college-/work-ready me... More... CO Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 School Accountability and Accreditation S.B. 163 Repeals and reenacts the Educational Accreditation Act of 1998 to align accountability and accreditation measures and procedures; assigns specified related duties to the State Board of Education in regard to accountability to include measuring student academic... 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... 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... 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... FL Adopted 11/2008 P-12 School Improvement and Accountability FAC 6A-1.09981 Ensures consistency among all schools designated School Performance Grade of D by requiring that they utilize the Bureau of School Improvement educational improvement plans database. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6430147&type=1&File=6... More... LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Alternative Assessment Results LAC 28:LXXXIII.3905 Amends rules relating to the school, district and state accountability system. Relates to the inclusion of alternate assessment results for students with disabilities in accountability system. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc... More... AK Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Accountability 4 AAC 06.825(b)(2), (c), .830(c), .885, 33.520(3)(4), .540(a)(2),(5), (6) Allows more flexibility in determining the graduation rate for purposes of Adequate Yearly Progress. Repeals the interim 2% flexibility. Relates to school and district accountability, academic indicators, subgroups and the performance incentive program. http:... 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... GA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Flexibility in Exchange for Increased Accountability H.B. 1209 Relates to elementary and secondary education; provides that a local school system may enter into a contract with the state board of education for increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability; relates to waivers to improve student performance... More... LA Adopted 12/2007 P-12 School, District and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905. Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Aca... More... LA Adopted 10/2007 P-12 Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313 Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII). Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates. Revises section 613 to clarify that s... More... CA Vetoed 09/2007 P-12 Accountability A.B. 400 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to incorporate various indicators into the Academic Performance Index, including high school graduation rates, rates by which pupils are offered and complete a course of study at an achievement level that fulfi... More... LA Adopted 08/2007 P-12 School, District and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.4302 and 4313 Revises the use of Alternative Assessment results in accountability as suggested by the Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee. Revises district accountability to better align with the high school redesign efforts initiated by the governor. Ame... More... LA Adopted 04/2007 P-12 District Accountability LAC 28:LXXXIII.4301, 4302, 4310, 4311, 4313, 4315, 4503, and 4517 Replaces District Responsibility Index with District Responsibility Indicators to provide a more specific picture of how districts are to be held accountable. (Details of the District Accountability Release required clarification because of the 2005 hurricanes... More... WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 High Quality Educational Programs S.B. 657 From Fiscal Note: The purpose of this bill is to revise the standards, assessment and accountability system to accommodate the higher order thinking and learning skills consistent with the state's 21st Century Initiative. School and district improvement plans ... More... CO Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Growth Model for Student Performance H.B. 1048 Requires the convening of a technical advisory panel to assist in the development of a longitudinal growth model to measure the academic growth of students; requires the panel to develop a new method to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of aca... More... LA Adopted 11/2006 P-12 School Performance Score Component LAC 28:LXXXIII.301 and 303 Transition made to new accountability system that includes iLEAP and Graduation Index. Page 1: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf... More... LA Adopted 11/2006 P-12 School Performance Score Goal and Disaster Considerations for the School and District Subgroup Component LAC 28:LXXXIII.301 and 4527 Adjusts 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... 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 Adopted 08/2006 P-12 High Priority Schools Grant Program Title 5 CCR Sections 1030.7, 1030.8 Amends 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 t... More... LA Adopted 08/2006 P-12 School, District and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.Chapter 45 Designed 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 pr... 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... 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... CO Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Measuring Student and School Performance H.B. 1109 Concerns 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 i... More... FL Adopted 04/2006 P-12 School Accountability Ratings FAC 6A-1.09981 Reviews 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... More... FL Adopted 03/2006 P-12 Science Assessments and Proficiency Levels FAC 6A-1.09422 Includes 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... More... IN Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Pupil Counts S.B. 173 Requires 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... More... IL Adopted 11/2005 P-12 23 IAC 1.10, thru .70, .75, .80, .85, .90, .95, Makes changes in the accountability system for public schools. Changes the requirement for adequate yearly progress and the indicators that will be considered; the targets for each aspect of performance; the subgroups of students, their participation in state ... More... KY Adopted 11/2005 P-12 Accountability Rewards and Consequences 703 KAR 5:020 Amends rules which establish a system for identifying and rewarding successful schools and appropriate consequences for schools failing to meet or exceed their assistance line. AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Bureau of O... 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... TX Adopted 09/2005 P-12 Accountability Ratings and Measures 19 TAC §97.1001 BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND SIGNIFICANT ISSUES: Legal counsel with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has recommended that the procedures for issuing accountability ratings for public school districts and campuses be adopted as part of the Texas Administrative Co... More... TX Adopted 09/2005 P-12 Annual Accountability Standards 19 TAC 2.97.AA.97.1001 Amends rules regarding the annual accountability standards. Describes the state accountability rating system for districts, campuses, and charter schools, and adopts applicable excerpts of the 2005 Accountability Manual, dated June 2005. TEXAS REG 97908 (SN)... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations S.B. 214 (Section 1-2) Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Requires the evaluation to include: (1) The impact of the accountability systems on learning and teach... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation S.B. 214 (Section 7-8) Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation added by paragraph (d), section 22-7-604.3. Section 8: Creates new paragraph (d) in section 22-7-604.3. States that a diagn... 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... TN Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Education Performance Goals and Measures H.B. 3511 Deletes several sections of 49-1-601 and and substitutes new language. Relates to educational performance goals and measures;changes from dropout rates to graduation rates; provides for testing; requires all public schools and local education agencies to make... More... DE Rule Adoption 05/2004 P-12 Accountability for Schools, Districts and the State 14 DAC 103 Amends regulation to reflect the changes made to Delaware's plan under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Changes include: definitions and the addition of State Progress Determinations. DELAWARE REG 1502 (SN) http://legis.state.de.us/LIS/Register.NS... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 School Academic Progress Measurement H.B. 2353 Concerns schools and measures of academic progress; concerns calculation of the measure of academic progress as the extent of academic progress made by each student rather than the percentage of students progressing one academic year. http://www.azleg.state.az... More... LA Adopted 04/2004 P-12 School, District and State Accountability LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005 Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishe... More... WV to governor 03/2004 P-12 Exemplary Performance and Progress H.B. 4001- Multiple Sections Part of H.B. 4001 requires standards for determining exemplary student, school and school system performance and progress. These indicators are to be used only as indicators for determining whether accredited and approved schools and school systems should be g... More... WV to governor 03/2004 P-12 Indicators of Efficiency H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections 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.... More... WV Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 School Improvement H.B. 4001- Mult. Sections - School Improvement Requires the department to make available through its web site or the West Virginia education information system an electronic unified school improvement plan boilerplate designed for use by all schools to develop a unified school improvement plan which incorp... More... CA Vetoed 10/2003 P-12 School Accountability: Opportunity to Learn Index S.B. 495 States the intent of the Legislature to establish an Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Index as part of the Public School Performance Accountability Program to measure the opportunity for teaching and learning as evidenced by access to high-quality learnin... More... OH Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 State Public School Accountability System H.B. 3--Section 3302.01 Creates the Ohio Accountability Task Force to study the state's accountability system (to make recommendations, periodically review fees for data analysis and reporting, periodically report to the department and state board, to examine the implementation of th... More... OH Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 AYP H.B. 3--3302.01 This section defines "performance index score;" defines subgroups as major racial and ethic groups, students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged, and limited English proficient students. Defines "other academic indicators" as attendance rate for ele... More... NV Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Alignment with No Child Left Behind Act - Accountability Provisions S.B. 1 (Omnibus Bill) The measure revises the public school accountability provisions of the Nevada Education Reform Act and related sections of the law to conform to requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The bill requires the state board to define the meas... More... TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 District Accreditation Standards S.B. 1820 Currently, Texas law requires the State Board of Education (SBOE) to adopt rules to evaluate the performance of schools using the academic excellence indicators adopted under Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (7), Education Code, including assessment instrument re... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 School Accountability H.B. 2277 Modifies school achievement profile designations and extends for an additional year the time before a school is classified as a school failing to meet academic standards; provides that a parent of a pupil may apply for reimbursement from the failing schools tu... More... NM Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Indicators and Measurements/School Ratings NMAC 6.19.1.8, 6.19.1.9; 6.19.2.16 Establishes rules annually measuring public schools on the five statewide indicators. All scores, rates, and other measures used in the Accountability Rating System are to be verified by the department. Assessment data is to be considered for accountability ra... More... NM Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Public School Accountability, General Provisions 6.19.1, 6.19.2 NMAC Amends rules regarding the annual measurement of schools. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.019.0001.pdf 6.19.1.9 Addresses school ratings: A. A school's rating will determine when intervention is appropriate. B. A school's rating is deter... More... AK Adopted 08/2002 P-12 School Designators 4 AAC 06 - Article 4 Establishes the indicators and formulas used to measure school performance. http://www.eed.state.ak.us/regs/adopted/4AAC06_schooldesignators.pdf... More... AK Adopted 06/2002 P-12 School Designators 4 AAC 06 Each school will receive accountability points for each student included in school accountability, based on their performance category ("Advanced," "Proficient," "Below Proficient," or "Not Proficient") Performance on Benchmark Test Accountability Points: Adva... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Annual Reports on Schools and Districts S.B. 1331 Changes distribution deadline for state board's annual reports for every school and district and the state as a whole from July 1 to September 1; removes "grade equivalents" as an area in which standardized test scores by subject area are to be reported. http:... 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... 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... 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... 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... WV Signed into law 03/2002 Postsec. Higher Education Accountability S.B. 533 Authorizes the rules relating to a higher education report card and performance indicators.... 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... NH Vetoed 07/2001 P-12 School Performance S.B. 164 Establishes criteria for measuring school performance standards and creates a watch list for schools which are not making satisfactory progress in school performance areas; establishes an education improvement fund in the Department of Education, which shall b... 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... TX Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 At Risk Guidelines S.B. 702 Texas law defines a "student at risk of dropping out of school" by age rather than grade level for students in grade levels higher than seventh grade. This definition is used in determining portions of a school district's funding. S.B. 702 expands the definit... More... FL Filed as Chapter No 05/2001 P-12 School Performance Grades H.B. 1633 2001-90. Revises provisions relating to the designation of school performance grade categories; revises the basis for such designations; revises provisions relating to statewide annual assessments; revises provisions relating to the use of a statistical system... More... IN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Staff Performance Evaluation Plan S.B. 165 Section formerly required each school to develop staff performance evaluation plan that would examine each employee's performance. New language requires each school's staff performance evaluation plan to evaluate "the school's and the school's educators' perfo... 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... OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Academic Performance S.B. 810 Requires state to complete draft Academic Performance Index by July 13, 2001. On or before February 28, 2002, must file the final baseline Academic Performance Index with the governor. Makes assessments contigent on funding.... More... SC Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Performance Indicators H.B. 3600 Relates to the education oversight committee's academic performance ratings and performance indicators under the education accountability act, so as to provide that the committee in all ratings rather than just in the improvement rating shall consider certain ... 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... 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... 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... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Statewide Testing S.B. 1139 States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Bo... More... CO Signed into law 06/1999 Postsec. Revises Quality Indicator System S.B. 229 Revises the statewide expectations and goals under the quality indicator system for the statewide system of higher education so that the indicators used to measure performance of the institutions match the goals for the higher education system.... More... NE Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 Amends Performance Indicators L.B. 813 Sets parameters for one of the state performance indicators. Amends "(c) At least sixty percent of the graduating seniors in the local system have taken a standard college admission test" to include greater detail about the calculation of scores. One of severa... More... CA Signed into law 04/1999 P-12 Public School Accountability Act of 1999 S.B. 1X Institutes a ranking of California's schools, with rewards for schools that improve and interventions in underperforming ones. Creates an Academic Performance Index (API).... More... VA Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Governor's Schools H.B. 2077 Provides that the Board of Education shall include consideration of special school division accomplishments, such as numbers of dual enrollments and students in advanced placement and International Baccalaureate courses, and participation in academic year Gove... More... WI Signed into law 06/1998 P-12 A.B. 883 Relates to information included in the annual school and school districts performance reports.... More... MI Signed into law 12/1997 P-12 H.B. 5233 Requires MEAP and high school proficiency test scores to be used as an indicator in school improvement process; relates to supporting academic learning through professional development of teachers and administrators, collaborative efforts with supporting agenc... More... CA Vetoed 08/1997 P-12 S.B. 305 School Accountability Report Card Requires that the statewide model school accountability report card also include, as a school condition to be assessed, the quality of school nursing services. Requires a school district to include as part of its school accountability report card, an assessmen... More... Accountability--Reporting Results 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 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... 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 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 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... 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... 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... 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 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... 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... 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... 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 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... WV Signed into law 03/2002 Postsec. Higher Education Accountability S.B. 533 Authorizes the rules relating to a higher education report card and performance indicators.... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... SC Signed into law 05/2001 Postsec. Higher Education Reporting H.B. 3533 Relates to the Commission on Higher Educations Annual Report under the Education Accountability Act; provides for that information which must be submitted by two- and four-year postsecondary institutions for inclusion in the report.... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... NE Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 School at the Center Program L.B. 812 Provides for the implementation of educational standards and assessment for public schools, the School at the Center Program, a needs study and cost analysis for local system financial reporting, specific certificates and permits that do not require all of the... More... NE Signed into law 07/1999 P-12 Appropriation for Reporting System L.B. 144 Reduces General Fund appropriation to department to implement a state assessment system. Intent language added to direct that $220,000 of remaining appropriation in each year of the biennium to be used for reporting system that will result in a statewide repo... More... HI Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Performance Indicators and Achievement Goals S.B. 1307 Requires the Director of Education to establish a comprehensive accountability system, including a student assessment program and a school profile which reports on student performance measures, school attendance, dropout rates, and parental involvement for eac... More... RI Became law without governor's signature 06/1999 P-12 Education Program for Suspended Students H.B. 6241 Provides a description of the education program provided to each student suspended for over then (10) consecutive school days in a school year in a report on school discipline presented annually to the general assembly.... More... TX Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Campus Improvement Plans and Performance Reports S.B. 1724 Relates to public school campus improvement plans and school district performance reports.... More... TX Signed by governor 06/1999 P-12 Listing Average Class Size in Annual Campus Reports S.B. 576 Provides that the annual campus report card will no longer include the pupil/teacher ratio. It will instead list the average class size by grade level and subject.... More... FL Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 A+ Plan (Part of Omnibus Bill) H.B. 751, 753, 755 Enhances the comprehensive management information system to clarify that the system must be able to collect, via electronic transfer, all student and school performance data and produce a comprehensive annual report on school and district performance. Commiss... More... CA Signed into law 04/1999 P-12 Public School Accountability Act of 1999 S.B. 1X Institutes a ranking of California's schools, with rewards for schools that improve and interventions in underperforming ones. Creates an Academic Performance Index (API).... More... IN Signed into law 04/1999 P-12 Performance Report H.B. 1197 Removes the requirement in the law concerning improvement in student achievement in certain cities. Indianapolis public Schools(IPS) must publish an annual performance report. (Current law requires IPS to also publish an annual performance report under a statu... More... AR Signed into law 03/1999 P-12 Annual School Performance Reports S.B. 125 Provides for annual individual school performance reports and for distribution of the reports to all parents or guardians of children enrolled in public schools.... More... MT Signed into law 12/1998 P-12 Amends Reporting Requirements S.B. 69 Changes the various annual reporting date requirements from September to the second Monday in September, revised the reporting time requirements of a district superintendent or county high school principal regarding pupil attendance, absence, and enrollment; a... More... WI Signed into law 06/1998 P-12 A.B. 883 Relates to information included in the annual school and school districts performance reports.... More... MS Died 05/1998 P-12 Mississippi Report Card S.B. 2836 Accountability Requires that the annual Mississippi Report Card shall include a special report assessing the implementation of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program in all school districts with less than a level III accreditation; authorizes the child prep to develop an... More... MS Died 05/1998 P-12 Public Reporting H.B. 244 Accountability Requires the State Department of Education to annually prepare a comprehensive evaluation report on the state of public education in each county; requires the department to publish the report in conjunction with the Mississippi report card.... More... NH Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 H.B. 1526 Special Education Requires the Department of Education to publish an annual report of special education statistics detailing certain specific categories to be analyzed statewide and by individual school districts; makes this report available to legislators, school districts, an... More... VA Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 Teacher/Pupil Ratios H.B. 211 Pupil/Teacher Ratios Requires school boards to report, annually, on or before January 1, to the public the pupil/teacher ratios in the current school year by school, teacher, grade, and class; includes only the teachers who teach the grade and class on a full-time basis and exclud... More... CA Vetoed 08/1997 P-12 S.B. 305 School Accountability Report Card Requires that the statewide model school accountability report card also include, as a school condition to be assessed, the quality of school nursing services. Requires a school district to include as part of its school accountability report card, an assessmen... More... AL Signed into law 07/1995 P-12 H.B. 466/S.B. 391 Nationally Normed Test Requires the implementation of a nationally normed test to assess student achievement in grades three through eleven; requires a comprehensive core curriculum for high schools, including four years each of English, mathematics, science, and social studies; req... More... Accountability--Rewards 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... IN Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Performance Qualified Schools S.B. 189 Provides for the designation of performance qualified school districts and high schools so as to provide flexibility in administration and instruction to school corporations and high schools that are placed in the highest performance and improvement category o... More... TN Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 District Flexibility S.B. 592 Allows districts identified as high-performing to seek state waivers of certain accountability measures, to explore alternative teacher evaluation systems, and add educational days to the school calendar. Provides that high-performing districts will be identif... More... KS Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 District Financial Incentive S.B. 128 Rewards districts where students graduate with an industry-recognized credential. "Industry recognition" defined as programs and certifications approved by the state Secretary of Labor.... 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... AZ Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 School District Regulator Exemptions H.B. 2599 Exempts school districts that have received a letter grade of "A" for three consecutive years and do not have any schools within the district that have received a letter grade of "F" during the same three-year period from certain statutes and rules; Allows a q... 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... 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... GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Achievement Grants H.B. 706 - Achievement Grants Repeals Section Section 20-2-253, relating to achievement grants to recognize schools and school systems with high achievement, high levels of improved achievement, or to raise the performance of low-performing schools. Page 6 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Le... 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... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 More Efficiency and Effectiveness H.B. 153 - More Efficiency and Effectiveness Directs the department of education to develop a system to rank all districts, community schools and STEM schools according to: (1) performance index score for district/community school/STEM school and for each separate building of such; (2) Student performanc... More... TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Distinction Designations and Charter Schools S.B. 1484 Specifies that an open-enrollment charter school may not be awarded a distinction designation if the charter school is evaluated under alternative education accountability procedures adopted by the commissioner. Specifies that for purposes of the subchapter of... More... NY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 School District Performance Improvement Awards Grant S.B. 2808 - Part B, Sec. 2 Creates the School District Performance Awards Grant program. Directs the commissioner of education to award competitive grants to school districts that have demonstrated the most improved academic achievement gains and student outcomes, and/or have implemente... More... FL Signed into law 07/2010 P-12 Repeals Secondary School Improvement Award Program HB 7037 - Sec 25 Repeals Subsection (5) of section 1003.413, which directed the commissioner of education to implement the Secondary School Improvement Award Program to reward secondary schools that demonstrate continuous student academic improvement and show the greatest stud... More... OK Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Rewards for Performance H.B. 2302 Relates to the Academic Achievement Award program; modifyies number of awards granted under the program and adds or specifies award levels; changes date for distributing monetary award; directs the State Board of Education to identify school sites for the var... More... TX Adopted 06/2010 P-12 District Awards for Teacher Excellence 19 TAC 102.1073 Establishes procedures and adopts guidelines for the administration of awards for teacher excellence. Incorporates statutory changes resulting from H.B. 3646, 81st Texas Legislature, 2009. Pages 1-6 of 182: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0618/0... More... WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Accountability S.B. 6696 Creates a coherent and effective accountability framework for improvement for all schools and districts to provide an excellent and equitable education, the tools necessary for accountability, including the necessary accounting and data reporting systems, asse... More... VA Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Recognizing and Reqwarding Significant Progress S.B. 145/H.B. 1172 Codifies a current recognition program for schools and local school divisions that recognizes and rewards fully accredited schools and school divisions that make significant progress toward achieving advance proficiency levels in reading, mathematics, science,... More... CA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Race to the Top S.B. 1E - Section 8 Adds Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 53100) to the Education Code. Numbers below relate to new section numbers. 53100: For purposes of implementing the federal Race to the Top program, (1) authorizes the state superintendent and president of the state bo... More... DE Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Pilot Academic Achievement Awards program S.B. 151 Creates a pilot Academic Achievement Awards program, which would use federal stimulus funds to make financial awards to schools that significantly close the achievement gap and schools that exceed their adequate yearly progress for two or more consecutive year... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Educator Excellence Awards Program H.B. 709 Adds national board-certified teachers as a group of educators eligible to be awarded stipends for improved student achievement through the educator excellence awards program. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00709F.pdf... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Teacher and Principal Awards H.B. 3646 - Sections 11-14 Section 11: Provides that the educator excellence fund will be annually funded by an amount determined by legislative appropriation, rather than by $1,000 per teacher. Eliminates reference in 21.703(a) to awards for student achievement program. Bill also repea... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 School Recognition H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part VI (Distinction Designations and Awards) Establishes new Subchapter G, "Distinction Designations". Directs the commissioner at the beginning of each school year to award distinction designations to districts and campuses. Directs the commissioner by rule to establish a recognized and exemplary rating... More... OK Vetoed 05/2009 P-12 Academic Achievement Award Program H.B. 1575 Amends Academic Achievement Award program to allow for more schools to receive awards (was limited to four). Adds and clarifies award levels; directs the State Board of Education to identify school sites for awards; establishes API score requirements for award... More... TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Education Pays Pilots H.B. 556 Encourages each local district to develop an Education Pays pilot program for at-risk students to encourage student academic achievement through award of Education Pays rewards. An "Education Pays reward" is a reward of cash or other thing of value given to st... More... WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2261--Section 501-507, Accountability Section 501-507 relates to shared accountability for school and district improvement. Legislature recognizes that comprehensive education finance reform and increased investment of public resources necessary to implement that reform must be accompanied by a ne... 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... LA Adopted 12/2007 P-12 School, District and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905. Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Aca... More... LA Adopted 07/2007 P-12 Rewards Eligibility and Corrective Actions LAC 28:LXXXIII.1301, 4313, 4903, and 4905 Amends the following Sections of Bulletin 111: • §1301 Reward Eligibility: Changes one requirement for exemplary academic growth to 2.0 points improvement in a subgroup assessment index rather than growth in a subgroup performance score • §4313 Corrective Acti... More... TX Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Modifies Use of Rewards H.B. 2399 House Bill 2399 amends the Education Code to allow a school campus to use the 25 percent of its student achievement program award that is not allocated for classroom teacher incentive payments on a teacher retention demonstration project that uses innovative, ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Academic Achievement Award Program H.B. 1593 Relates to the Academic Achievement Award (AAA) program: expanding the program to the top four schools in each category; adding an award for schools that achieve a certain Academic Performance Index (API) score; directing the state board to make certain determ... More... AK Adopted 04/2007 P-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE 4 AAC 33.520 Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Amends the participation rate in the Public School Performance IncentiveProgram. Law allows for certificated and noncertificated staff to receive incentive payments on top of their base salary.... More... CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program A.B. 756 Establishes the Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the program. Permits a specified percentage of schools in the state to participate in the program at any one time. Requires the Supe... More... ID Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 08/2006 P-12 School Rewards IDAPA 08.02.03 Pending legislative approval in 2007: Gives responsibility of calculating school rewards for purposes of NCLB to the state department of education (SDE). The SDE currently makes all calculations for AYP and can use the same data to calculate the rewards. The S... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Florida Secondary School Redesign Act H.B. 7087 - Section 19 Defines secondary schools as those serving grades 6-12. Specifies that the following guiding principles must be used in the annual preparation of each secondary school's improvement plan: (a) Struggling students, especially those in failing schools, need th... More... CO Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Measuring Student and School Performance H.B. 1109 Concerns 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 i... More... IN Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 U.S. Savings Bonds for Students Earning Academic Honors Diploma S.B. 231 Allows districts that before January 1, 2006 purchased U.S. savings bonds for graduates who earned an academic honors diploma to continue to do so for students graduating in 2006 and 2007. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/SE/SE0231.1.html... More... KY Adopted 11/2005 P-12 Accountability Rewards and Consequences 703 KAR 5:020 Amends rules which establish a system for identifying and rewarding successful schools and appropriate consequences for schools failing to meet or exceed their assistance line. AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Bureau of O... More... KY Adopted 11/2005 P-12 District Accountability Rewards and Sanctions 703 KAR 5:130 Establishes a local school district accountability program. Establishes eligibility for district rewards, and procedures for determining assistance and other consequences for local school districts. AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and Gener... More... OK Adopted 08/2005 P-12 Academic Achievement Award Program OAC 210:20-26-1, -2, -3 Implements the Academic Achievement Award Program. OKLAHOMA 13819 ... More... GA Adopted 07/2005 P-12 Accountability System GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04 Clarifies rules regarding the statewide accountability system, including definitions, profiles and awards and school- and district-level consequences. Also sets forth state audit and record retention requirements for schools and districts. http://www.doe.k12.g... More... NC Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Rewards for growth S.B. 630 The personnel in participating schools that achieve a level of expected growth greater than one hundred percent (100%) at a level to be determined by the State Board of Education are eligible for financial awards in amounts set by the State Board. Schools and ... 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... FL Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College International General Certificate of Secondary Education (pre-AICE) and Advanced International Certificate of Education H.B. 579 Adds International General Certificate of Secondary Education (pre-AICE) and Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) to public school choice options and to rigorous academic programs parents must have the opportunity to learn about. Adds Advance... More... IN Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Academic Honors Diploma Awards H.B. 1001 (Section 201) Districts are eligible for the academic honors diploma awards according to the number of students who successfully completed an academic honors diploma program in the school year ending in the previous calendar year. Reduces the amount for which districts are ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Academic Achievement Award (AAA) Program H.B. 1992 New section of law: 3-152.1 of Title 70. Requires the state board of education to develop an Academic Achievement Award (AAA) program. The AAA program is to provide monetary awards to qualified employees at schools that attain the highest overall student achi... More... WA Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Apple Award H.B. 1998 Adds a new section to chapter 28A.655 RCW. The Apple Award program is created to honor and reward public elementary schools that have the greatest combined average increase in the percentage of students meeting the fourth grade reading, mathematics, and writin... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 End-of-Course Success Incentive Program H.B. 1983 (multiple provisions) Creates the End-of-Course Success Incentive Program under the department of education. Awards schools $50.00 for each student passing the end-of-course assessment on his or her first attempt. These funds must be utilized in the schools to improve student acade... 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... ID Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 08/2004 P-12 Distinguished Schools, Additional Yearly Growth Award IDAPA 08.02.03 Proposes rules regarding awards, distinguished schools, and Additional Yearly Growth (AYG) Award. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0203.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... OH Rule Adoption 05/2004 P-12 Identification of Excellent Schools and Districts OAC 3301-15-01 thru -05, -56-01 Rescinds rules pertaining to process and indicators used to identify excellent schools and districts, corrective action plans, state monitors, and academic watch and academic emergency districts. Amends rules regarding provisions for granting exemptions from s... More... UT Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Public Education Amendments S.B. 185 Modifies the membership and terms of the nominating and recruiting committee that selects candidates for membership on the State Board of Education (from 4 year terms to 2-year terms, nominated by the governor); provides definitions: "Competency" means a demon... More... WV to governor 03/2004 P-12 Exemplary Performance and Progress H.B. 4001- Multiple Sections Part of H.B. 4001 requires standards for determining exemplary student, school and school system performance and progress. These indicators are to be used only as indicators for determining whether accredited and approved schools and school systems should be g... More... AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Public School Funding Act of 2003 S.B. 42 Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; p... More... AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Student Assessment and Educational Accountability Act of 2004 - Rewards S.B. 33 § 6 Adds Ark. Code 6-15-1902(e), 6-15-1907. School receiving annual improving category Level 5 or Level 4 are eligible for school recognition awards and performance-based funding; outlines rewards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf... More... WV Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Education H.B. 4111 Requires the state board to adopt system standards, including student performance and progress, school and school system progress, etc. Requires performance measures to incude graduation rate, dropout rate, attendance, student performance; percentage of gradu... More... NJ Signed into law 12/2003 P-12 Outstanding Educational Services Professionals S.B. 2397 Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.... More... NY Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2003 P-12 Prepayment Methods of Academic Performance Awards Title 8 NYCRR 2206.3 Prepayment Methods of General and Academic Performance Awards. Reflects the prepayment method which results in cost savings and improves administrative efficiency. NEW YORK REG 16380 (SN)... More... IL Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 School Accountability S.B. 878 Makes changes concerning school recognition standards for student performance and school improvement, recognition levels, rewards and acknowledgements for schools and school districts, academic warning and watch statuses for schools and districts, school and d... More... MI Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 State Payment of National Board Certification Application Fee and Rewards H.B. 4391 (multiple provisions) Sec. 704. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for national board certification, the department shall pay 1/2 of the application fee for teachers who are deemed by the department to be qualified to apply to the national board for professional teaching standar... More... LA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 School Rewards Fund-School Improvements S.B. 231 Allows state board to provide for and department to use monies (remaining after department provision of all school rewards in school accountability system) for school improvement as an optional secondary use for money in the statutory school rewards fund. http... More... MD Rule Adoption 06/2003 P-12 Review and Recognition of Schools under NCLB COMAR 13A.01.04.09 A. The State Board and the State Superintendent of Schools shall annually review the progress of each local school system to determine if the school system is making AYP in reading and in mathematics and shall publicize the results of the review to each local ... 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... FL Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Education Code Re-Write: School Improvement and Accountability Program; Florida School Recognition Program S.B. 20E Eliminates commissioner waiver authority in school improvement/accountability system (see bill section 379, page 849, line 29 ff) Places Florida School Recognition Program eligibility on basis of school grades rather than application process. According to legi... More... MO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Major Bill - Accountability Component H.B. 1711 Department is required to identify high-achieving schools as performance schools and specify the waivers of rule applicable to those schools. Schools or districts that are academically deficient, unaccredited or provisionally accredited, or that achieve none ... More... CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Summer School Grant Program and Teacher Pay Incentive Program H.B. 1304 Expands the Summer School Grant Program to provide funding to school districts for the operation of intensive literacy and reading comprehension education services to students preparing to enter the first grade who scored at an unsatisfactory level on the kind... More... HI Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Incentive Bonuses S.B. 2036 Provides an incentive bonus equal to 10% of any nonstate grant or subsidy that is awarded to a school or school teacher on a competitive basis; provided that (1) Not more than $25,000 is credited to any one elementary, middle or high school per fiscal year; an... More... LA Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 School and District Accountability Rewards Fund S.B. 14A Reestablishes a dedicated fund to set aside funds for providing rewards to schools earning rewards pursuant to the accountability system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=021ES&billtype=SB&billno=14... More... CA Signed into law 10/2001 P-12 Changes In the States Accountability Reward System A.B. 1295 Deletes the provision by which schools that meet the State target are eligible for the Governor's Performance Award Program and would require a school, including a school participating in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, to meet at a... 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... OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Rewards, Continuing Education, Teacher Shortages, H.B. 1499--Multiple Components Concerns Academic Performance Awards Programs, continuing education for mathematics teachers, National Board certification; removes authority of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to establish repayment of certain student loans program; establishes te... 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... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Underperforming Schools - Assistance and Incentives H.B. 5737 Concerns underperforming schools; provides grants for boards of education with schools in need of improvement; provides for partnerships with public libraries; provides for actions necessary to become accredited; improves literacy and parental involvement; pro... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Florida's Accountability System H.B. 63 Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualifications; provides bonuses for certain teachers; requires Education Commissioner to adopt rules to define teaching mastery; r... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Financial Rewards for Schools and Boards S.B. 122 Establishes the Governor's Academic Achievement Program; provides financial rewards to public schools and local boards of education that improve their academic status.... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Incentives for Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2488 Empowers and directs the State Board of Education to establish and implement an improving and high performing schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in thei... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Financial Incentives for Schools H.B. 1134 Establishes and implements a superior-performing and exemplary schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in their classification; provides for school improveme... 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... NM Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Intervention, Incentives S.B. 40 Relates to interventions for school improvements; changes the distribution of the incentives for school improvement fund.... More... CO Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Excellent Schools Program H.B. 1375 Concerns creation of the Excellent Schools Program; specifies criteria for eligibility for school awards.... More... HI Signed into law 06/1999 P-12 Performance Indicators and Achievement Goals S.B. 1307 Requires the Director of Education to establish a comprehensive accountability system, including a student assessment program and a school profile which reports on student performance measures, school attendance, dropout rates, and parental involvement for eac... More... FL Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 A+ Plan (Part of Omnibus Bill) H.B. 751,753,755 Provides that schools designated "D" or "F" receive assistance and intervention. School board must develop 2-year plan of increasing individualized assistance and intervention for each school in danger of not meeting state standards or making adequate progres... More... IN Signed into law 05/1999 P-12 Accrediting Schools According to Baldrige Criteria H.B. 1750 Provides that a school may be accredited by meeting the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Education rather than under performance based accreditation; transfers the duties of the state standards task force to the education roundtable... More... CA Signed into law 04/1999 P-12 Public School Accountability Act of 1999 S.B. 1X Institutes a ranking of California's schools, with rewards for schools that improve and interventions in underperforming ones. Creates an Academic Performance Index (API).... More... MD Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 School Accountability Funding for Excellence H.B. 1 Establishes a School Accountability Funding for Excellence for public school systems of the State; appropriates funds for various education programs.... More... MS Died 05/1998 P-12 H.B. 48 Authorizes school districts meeting level 3,4 or 5 accreditation requirements to exercise home rule authority; excludes certain actions from school district home rule authority; requires the State Board of Education to certify the eligibility of school distric... More... NE Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 Accountability LB 1 Relates to probation, federal medicaid funds, truancy, school closing, reorganization of school districts, the assistant commissioner of education, temporary mitigation funds, educational service units, the statewide public computer information network, and qu... More... OK Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 Certificates of Distinction S.B. 1406 Requires school boards to issue diplomas with distinction to students who have met or exceeded certain academic standards.... More... VA Signed into law 05/1998 P-12 H.B. 653 Establishes the Virginia Educational Reward Program and Fund to be administered by the Board of Education; allows funds to be disbursed to award incentive grants to public schools meeting certain eligibility or performance criteria established by the Board; su... More... NE Signed into law 04/1998 P-12 L.B. 1228 Adopts the Quality Education Accountability Act; provides incentive payments to local systems that have adopted academic standards promulgated by the State Board of Education, has a system of alternative education for all expelled students, has an approved pro... More... OK Died 01/1998 P-12 H.B. 2854 Incentives Relates to providing extra funding for school districts which have ninety percent of the graduated classes not needing remedial classes in higher education.... More... OR Signed into law 08/1997 P-12 S.B. 880 Incentive Rewards A new Oregon law gives school districts greater control over the quality of instruction. Under Bill S.B. 880-C, all current and new teachers will be employed on renewable two-year contracts. An expedited appeals process and a professional assistance program wi... More... NC Signed into law 06/1997 P-12 Excellent Schools Act-School Based Incentive Awards School Based Incentive Awards Under the ABCs Plan - Addresses expanding school-based incentive awards under the ABCs program. Larger financial awards will be available to staff in schools where student achievement is higher than expected. For the first time, f... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions CA Signed into law 07/2013 P-12 Appointed Trustee for Insolvent District (education finance omnibus) A.B. 86 - Appointed Trustee for Insolvent District From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to appoint a trustee with the powers and responsibilities of an administrator when a school district becomes insolvent and requires an emergency apportionment from the state. http://www.leg... 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... MO Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Unaccredited School Districts S.B. 125 Requires public comment be obtained on the appropriate scoring guides, instruments, and procedures used in determining the accreditation status of a district at least fourteen days in advance of a meeting on the accreditation status. Removes the two-year wait... More... VT Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Multiple Components - School Closings; Guidelines for Teacher Advisory System H.B. 521 Two of multiple components. Creates a committee to study the implications of public schools closing to become independent schools. Creates a working group to develop best practice guidelines for teacher advisory systems. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2014/A... More... MS Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Teacher Education Scholarship, and Dropout Rate Restructuring S.B. 2658- Creates the teacher education scholars program and the Mississippi education works program which directs high schools with graduation rates lower than 80% to submit a plan to the department of education for restructure. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documen... More... LA Adopted 12/2012 P-12 Sanctions for Low-Performing Schools LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 14, 16, 19, 23 Repeals §1401, §1403, §1405, which related to levels to, entry and movement in academic assistance. Amends §1601, "Entry into Academically Unacceptable School Status" and §1603, "Requirements for Academically Unacceptable Schools." Adds §1607, which requires a... More... TX Adopted 07/2012 P-12 Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions 19 TAC 97.1065, 1067 Section 97.1065 addresses provisions relating to repurposing, alternative management, or campus closure, including actions requested by parent petition or local board request for alternative to approach identified in parent petition. Section 97.1067 addresses ... More... OH Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Parent Trigger in Columbus S.B. 316 - Parent Trigger in Columbus From final bill analysis: Specifies that the provisions of the "parent trigger" restructuring petition, under the Columbus pilot program, prevail over the general restructuring law for low-performing schools, if a district school becomes subject to both, unles... More... PA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Authority of a Commonwealth Partnership School District H.B. 1901 - Sec. 1704-B Section 1704-B continues provisions of the Empowerment Act that were scheduled to expire June 30, 2012. A Commonwealth Partnership School District is authorized to: 1) cancel or renegotiate any contract, other than collective bargaining agreements, for the pur... More... CT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Low Performing Districts S.B. 458 (Sec. 34) Defines an alliance district as a town whose school district is among those with the lowest academic performance as measured by a district performance index (DPI) the bill establishes. For FY 13, the bill requires the education commissioner to design... 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... LA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Transferring Low-performing School to Recovery District and Parent Petitions H.B. 976 Allows for a public school to be transferred to the Recovery School District (RSD) if such transfer is approved by the state board of education and both of the following conditions are met: (1) Parents or legal guardians representing at least 51% of the studen... More... LA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 School Choice and Voucher Program H.B. 976 Expands the current choice program, Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, beyond schools in the New Orleans district to students statewide who meet eligibility requirements. Provides scholarships to eligible students to attend public and non... More... SD Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 State Accountability System S.B. 25 Creates a new state accountability system for public elementary and secondary schools to hold public schools accountable for student achievement and ensure that all public schools make yearly progress. Yearly progress will be measured by multiple indicators... 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... CA Vetoed 10/2011 P-12 Parent Trigger Amendments A.B. 203 From bill summary: Requires interventions to be implemented for a school that is identified as persistently lowest-achieving but does not receive specified school improvement grant funding. Requires a governing board of a local educational agency to allow pare... More... IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Full-Year School Plan H.B. 1415 Provides that if certain specified schools remain on academic watch status for two years, subject to the availability of federal appropriation money, the state board must allow the local school board to operate the school on a state board-approved pilot full-y... More... CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Secondary School Reform Act Delay/Teacher Evaluations/Tenure/Student Governance Councils/6th Grade Student Success Plan H.B. 6498 Secondary School Reform Act - Delays by two years the implementation of the secondary school reform requirements enacted in 2010 that: (1) Increase the minimum number of credits required to graduate from high school; (2) Require school districts to offer stude... More... HI Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Reconstituting Public School and Charter School S.B. 1485 Allows the superintendent of education to reconstitute a public school, except for charter schools. Directs the department to negotiate with the respective unions the process of reassigning employees of the school to be reconstituted to other positions within ... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Parent Trigger Pilot for Columbus H.B. 153 - Parent Trigger Pilot for Columbus Establishes a pilot project for any school operated by the Columbus school district that has been ranked in the lowest 5% of all public schools statewide for three or more consecutive years. Requires the district board to implement any of five requested reform... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Sanctions for the Lowest-Performing Schools H.B. 153 - Sanctions for the Lowest-Performing Schools Provides that for any building that is ranked in the lowest 5% of all public school buildings statewide for three consecutive years and is declared to be under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency, the district board must do one of the followi... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Licensure Exam Retakes for Teachers in Lowest-Performing Schools H.B. 153 - Licensure Exam Retakes for Teachers in Lowest-Performing Schools Directs the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district, the governing authority of each community school, and the governing body of each STEM school with a building ranked in the lowest 10% of all public school buildings accor... More... TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Parent Trigger Law--Local Board May Trump S.B. 738 Provides that if the commissioner is presented with a written petition signed by the parents of a majority of the students enrolled at a campus that has an "unacceptable" performance rating for three consecutive school years after the campus is reconstituted, ... More... GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Increased Flexibility for Increased Accountability H.B. 192 Extends until end of 2014-15 school year the provision that each local school system either notify the department of its intention to request increased flexibility through local school board flexibility contract or elect not to request increased flexibility in... More... IN Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Accountability H.B. 1001--Turnaround Academies Provides that a school that remains in the lowest performance category for a fifth year becomes a turnaround academy. Requires the state board of education to set specific goals for a turnaround academy, and allows the turnaround academy to be operated by a sp... More... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Graduation Rates S.B. 2 Instructs the state board to adopt a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate and extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rate to establish a uniform definition of high school graduation rate. Requires the state board to adopt percentage growth targets for h... More... AR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 District Takeovers by State Board S.B. 383 If the state board orders the takeover of a school district under authority and also orders the removal of the school district board of directors, the state board may assume all authority of the school district board of directors as may be necessary for the da... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2234 Amends section 15-241. Changes the method used to calculate a school's classification and replaces the current labels of "excelling", "highly performing", "performing", "underperforming" or "failing to meet academic standards" with a letter grade system of A, ... More... GA Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 School Board Member Terms S.B. 79 Provides that members of local boards of education must serve terms of no less than four years. Provides for a phase-in period and for exceptions. Provides for the composition and election of county boards of education in counties in which there is a homestead... More... MI Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Supervision of Lowest-achieving Schools S.B. 157 Provides that if a school included on the list of lowest-achieving 5% of public schools was operated by a district in which an emergency manager was in place under the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act, the Superintendent of Public... More... CA Adopted 09/2010 P-12 Parent Empowerment 5 CA ADC 4800, 4801, 4802, 4803, 4804, 4805, 4806, 4807 Adopts emergency regulations to implement Senate Bill 4, Chapter 3, 5th Extraordinary Session of 2010. This Senate Bill and these emergency regulations establish the parent empowerment process whereby parents of students who are or will be enrolled in up to 75... More... TX Adopted 07/2010 P-12 Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions 19 TAC 97.1051-1073 Makes various changes to state accountability provisions. Language below primarily from July 23, 2010 Texas Register. 97.1051: Amends definitions. Changes the definition of "campus closure" to remove references to "repurposing," which is now defined in statute... More... OK Signed by Governor 06/2010 P-12 Improvement Plans S.B. 1617 Amends law to require each school district identified as in need of improvement for four years to submit a plan for compliance with this section to the State Department of Education, in a manner prescribed by the Department. Beginning December 31, 2010, and an... More... OK Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Four Intervention Models S.B. 2033 This section of S.B. 2033 establishes and defines four intervention models, one of which a school identified as being among the persistently lowest-achieving schools in the state is required to implement (turnaround, closure, restart or transformation). http:... More... CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 School Governance Council S.B. 438 - Sec. 21 Permits the local/regional board of education for a school that has been identified as in need of improvement pursuant or designated as a low achieving school (due to such school failing to make adequate yearly progress in mathematics and reading at the whole ... More... CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Monitoring of Reconstituted Schools S.B. 438 - Sec. 22 Requires the department of education to monitor, within available appropriations, those schools that have reconstituted (See section 21 of this bill) to determine whether such schools have demonstrated progress with regard to the following indicators: (1) the ... More... NY Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 School Takeovers by Educational Partnership Organizations A.B. 11171, Section 6 From "Summary of Specific Provisions" on Assembly Web site: Section 6 of this bill would add a new S21l-e to the Education Law to authorize the board of education of a school district, or the Chancellor of the New York City School District, to contract with ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 S.B. 509 Authorizes a district board of education for a district with an average daily membership of more than 30,000 which implements an alternative governance arrangement to use the following procedures, upon approval of the district board and concurrence of the exec... More... MS Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Schools At Risk H.B. 1097 Requires the Department of Education to provide assistance to certain schools not meeting adequate performance of accreditation standards. Requires schools at-risk to be identified by specified criteria. Authorizes evaluation teams to conduct on- site audits. ... More... MS Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 New Start School S.B. 2293 Creates a New Start School Program. Requires a New Start School to be established in each public school that is considered failing. Provides for the conversion of underperforming schools into conversion charter schools, for contracts relating to such conversio... More... WI Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Act 215 - Multiple Provisions S.B. 437 Act 215. For a district in need of improvement for 4 consecutive years, new section requires district boards to take certain actions (additional learning time; system of academic and behavioral supports; use data to differentiate instruction; employ a research... More... WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Accountability S.B. 6696 Creates a coherent and effective accountability framework for improvement for all schools and districts to provide an excellent and equitable education, the tools necessary for accountability, including the necessary accounting and data reporting systems, asse... More... CA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Race to the Top S.B. 1E - Section 8 Adds Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 53100) to the Education Code. Numbers below relate to new section numbers. 53100: For purposes of implementing the federal Race to the Top program, (1) authorizes the state superintendent and president of the state bo... More... CA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Parent Empowerment S.B. 4E - Parent Empowerment Creates new sections 53300 and ff. of the Education Code, establishing new "Parent Empowerment" section. Provides that for any school not identified as a persistently low-achieving school under new Section 53201 (see enacted S.B. 1E http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/p... More... KY Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Interventions for Persistently Low-Achieving Schools and Advanced Placement H.B. 176 Amends accountability provisions in KRS 160.346. Defines "persistently low-achieving school". Defines "school intervention" as a process chosen by a school council, a superintendent and a local board, or the commissioner of education or designee with state boa... More... KY Emergency Rule Adoption 01/2010 P-12 Low-Achieving Schools 703 KAR 5:180 Establishes the processes to be followed during a school leadership assessment and district leadership assessment after a school is identified as low-achieving, per 2010 H.B. 176 (http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB176/bill.doc). Defines "assessment team", "d... More... MA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Underperforming or Chronically Underperforming Schools S.B. 2247; (NEW BILL) Repeals and replaces existing policies relating to Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate a school as underperforming or chronically underperforming. Defines Commissioner's and State Board's authority and duties. http://www.mass.gov/le... More... MI Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Reform Failing Schools H.B. 4787 - Sec. 1280c Part of Michigan's Race to the Top Legislation. Beginning in 2010, not later than September 1 of each year, the state superintendent is required to publish a list of the lowest achieving 5% of all public schools. Once a building is identified as being in the l... More... TN Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Tennessee First to the Top Act of 2010 - Multiple Provisions S.B. 7005A - H.B. 7010A Enacts the Tennessee First to the Top Act of 2010. From fiscal note: Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to move any public school or local education agency (LEA) into or out of a newly created "Achievement School District" (ASD) if the school is in the f... More... NM Adopted 12/2009 P-12 Academic Proficiency, Attendance and Driving Permits NMAC 6.30.11 Establishes requirements for demonstrating 9th grade math & reading proficiency and meeting school attendance standards prior to receiving an MVD driving permit for the year 2011. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.030.0011.htm... More... GA Adopted 11/2009 P-12 Athletics Participation, No Pass No Play Grades 6-12 GAC 160 -5-1-.18, -.19 Adds that retention of students for athletic purposes is prohibited. Repeals rule 160-5-1-.19 "Grades 6-8: Competitive Interscholastic Activities" and adds provisions related to no pass no play for middle grades students to rule 160 -5-1-.18. Requires students... More... IL Adopted 11/2009 P-12 Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision 23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737 Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in nature or echo recent changes in legislation): Section 1.20: Revised to distinguish among the appropriate levels of sign-of... More... CA Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 CTE Programs at Regional Occupation Centers/Programs S.B. 640 Requires an employer advisory board to recommend measures, criteria and methods to evaluate the skills and knowledge of students in a regional occupation center or program established and maintained by a county board of education. Requires an employer advisory... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Leadership of Districts in Financial Trouble H.B. 2674 Authorizes a district under the authority of a Financial Oversight Panel to appoint a district superintendent with a specified certification or a chief executive officer upon expiration of the current superintendent's contract. Requires the superintendent or c... More... IL Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Charter Schools S.B. 612 Increases statewide charter school cap and charter school cap for Chicago. Above and beyond caps, permits five Chicago charters (and specified numbers of campuses and enrollment seats within those five charters) to be devoted to serving returning high school d... More... LA Vetoed 07/2009 P-12 Low-performing Schools H.B. 495 Specifies criteria that exempts a school from being transferred to the state-run Recovery School District, even if the school is low performing. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=664617... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Accountability Compliance Commission H.B. 1 - Section 3306.34 Provides that a separate accountability compliance commission must be established for each school district for which the state superintendent opts to establish a commission due to noncompliance with financial budgeting or reporting requirements per section 330... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Failure to Comply with Finance Provisions H.B. 1 - Section 3306.33 By July 2011, directs the department of education to provide technical assistance to that either has failed to comply with any applicable expenditure or reporting standard prescribed by rule adopted under section 3306.25, or that fails to submit a spending pla... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Triggers for Automatic Closure of Community Schools H.B. 1 - Section 3314.35 From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Revises the current performance criteria that trigger automatic closure of a community school after July 1, 2009, as follows: (1) For schools that do not offer a grade higher than 3, requires closure if the school has been in academ... More... OH Adopted 06/2009 P-12 School Building and District Improvement Planning OAC 3301-13-01, -02, -37-01 thru -12, -56-01 Rescinds and adopts new rules relating to school building and district improvement planning, parent notification and intervention. Requires districts and schools identified for improvement to be categorized as low support, medium support or high support based ... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Bonds H.B. 3646 - Sections 69-72 Section 69: Adds new section 45.0531. Authorizes the state board by rule to establish a percentage of the cost value of the permanent school fund to be reserved from use in guaranteeing bonds. Section 70: Requires districts seeking state guarantee of eligible ... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 School Leadership Pilot Program H.B. 3 - Section 9 Clarifies language in Section 11.203 regarding participation in the school leadership pilot program for principals. Specifies that an individual serving as principal of a school rated academically unacceptable the previous school year must participate in the p... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Participation in Teacher Reading Academy H.B. 3 - Section 24 Amends action that triggers a teacher's participation in a teacher reading academy. Former provision required teacher to participate in reading academy if teacher provided instruction in reading, math, science or social studies to students in any grades 6-8 an... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Schools Liable to Reconstitution, Alternative Management, "Repurposing" H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part V Directs a campus intervention team to assist a reconstituted campus in developing an *updated targeted* improvement plan (former language called for development of a "school improvement plan") and in submitting the updated targeted improvement plan to the loca... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Assistance to Low-Performing Districts and Schools H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part IV Amends language regarding actions the commissioner may take as regards a district that does not satisfy accreditation criteria, academic performance standards or any financial accountability standard. Provides that the commissioner may order the preparation of... More... OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Accepting Support Team Assistance H.B. 1461 Requires schools identified as not making Adequate Yearly Progress to utilize school support team assistance; provides that the support team shall assist the school in incorporating strategies that will strengthen the core academic subjects and address specifi... More... OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Alternative Governance for Schools in Need of Improvement S.B. 268 Requires district boards of education for schools identified for improvement for a specified number of consecutive years to implement alternative governance arrangements; provides that such arrangements include reopening the school as a public charter school, ... More... NY Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Contracts for Excellence A.B. 157 - Part A, Sections 1-5 Provides that a district that submitted a contract for excellence for the 2008-09 school year must submit a contract for excellence for the 2009-10 school year unless all schools in the district are identified as in good standing. Provides that a district that... More... WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2261--Section 501-507, Accountability Section 501-507 relates to shared accountability for school and district improvement. Legislature recognizes that comprehensive education finance reform and increased investment of public resources necessary to implement that reform must be accompanied by a ne... More... MS Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Children First Act of 2009 S.B. 2628 Prohibits public school students in 7th-12th grades who fail to maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 from participating in extracurricular activities. Authorizes and directs the state board to define failing schools and school districts under certain standards. Re... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Student Attendance and Driver's License S.B. 275 Authorizes the denial or suspension of a driver's license or learner's permit of a minor who is not enrolled in or has not completed school or an adult education program or who is habitually absent or tardy; authorizes school boards, the Recovery School Distri... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Academic Crisis Schools H.B. 909 The recovery district shall retain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it for academic crisis purposes for a period of not less than five school years not including the school year in which the transfer occurred if the transfer occurred during a school... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Assistance to Low-performing Schools S.B. 582 Requires the state Department of Education to develop a program that provides for early identification of low performing chools that are at risk of being labeled "academically unacceptable" and provides targeted interventions that are designed to address ident... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Academically Unacceptable School Plans H.B. 463 Relates to schools that have been labeled academically unacceptable or failed schools for which a school board has not presented or implemented an acceptable reconstitution plan; provides a retention period for schools transferred to a Recovery School District... 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 06/2008 P-12 Processes for Schools in Improvement H.B. 4148 Outlines procedures to be followed re: schools identified as in improvement. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1006.pdf... More... CO Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 No Penalties for Students Missing State Assessment H.B. 1186 Excepts from the calculation of a school's academic performance ratings and from determining accreditation, the assessment scores of students absent on the days assessments are administered under the student assessment program and students' scores that are inv... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2711 Relates to intervention in mismanaged school districts. A. Provides the Department of Education shall investigate a school district for systemic educational mismanagement if: 1) fifty percent or more of the schools in the district are designated underperformin... More... AZ Vetoed 04/2008 P-12 fiscal accountability H.B. 2560 Concerns school districts compliance; relates to withholding monies; provides if the Department of Education, the Auditor General or the Attorney General determines that a school district is substantially and deliberately not in compliance and if the district ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Fiscal Accountability H.B. 2469 An emergency measure which delays and extends the payback period for over-expenditures for Saddle Mountain Unified School District and Union Elementary School District and provides incentives for the unification or consolidation of these districts with neighbo... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2666 Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of ... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Removal of Superintendents in Underperforming Districts S.B. 2149 Provides that the appointed or elected superintendent of education in an underperforming school district for a specified number of consecutive school years shall be removed from office by the school board at the end of the school year. Provides for the appoint... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Task Force on Underperforming Schools and Districts S.B. 2405 Creates a task force to study and report on the status of underperforming schools and districts in the state, effectiveness measures for improvement of those schools and school districts and enhancement of accountability and sanctions imposed on those schools ... 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... LA Adopted 12/2007 P-12 School, District and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905. Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Aca... More... TX Adopted 12/2007 P-12 Accountability 19 TAC Chapter 97 Adopts new 19 TAC Chapter 97, Planning and Accountability, Subchapter EE, Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions. The new subchapter defines the accreditation statuses of Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation, and Not Accredited-Revoked a... More... LA Adopted 11/2007 P-12 Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System LAC 28:CXI.2007, Bulletin 118 In accordance with R.S. 49:950 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has amended Bulletin 111—The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII). The changes in §301 ex... 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... LA Adopted 10/2007 P-12 Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313 Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII). Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates. Revises section 613 to clarify that s... More... CA Vetoed 09/2007 P-12 Accountability A.B. 438 Relates to the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 which establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program to provide funding to schools that perform below the 50th percentile on certain achievement tests. Establishes guidelines for ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2007 P-12 Reinstating authority A.B. 45 Requires the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistant Team, until all operational areas have been returned to the governing board of the Oakland Unified School District, to prepare and submit a progress report on the district's assessment and recovery plan. Requ... More... CA To governor 07/2007 P-12 Special education A.B. 485 Relates to special education. Prohibits a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency whose certification has been revoked, and certain other administrators and entities involved with the school or agency, from being eligible to apply for recertification for 2 ye... More... LA Adopted 07/2007 P-12 Rewards Eligibility and Corrective Actions LAC 28:LXXXIII.1301, 4313, 4903, and 4905 Amends the following Sections of Bulletin 111: • §1301 Reward Eligibility: Changes one requirement for exemplary academic growth to 2.0 points improvement in a subgroup assessment index rather than growth in a subgroup performance score • §4313 Corrective Acti... 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 School Improvement Plans H.B. 2263C -- Improvement Plan Components Requires state superintendent to assign school ratings. Requires schools rated as in need of improvement to file school improvement plan. Such plans must include: (a) A rigorous curriculum aligned with state standards; (b) High-quality instructional programs;... More... PA Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Distressed School Districts H.B. 842, Sec. 5 (Section 113 (c) of the Act) These provisions set parameters for how staff of a "distressed" district in which pupils have been reassigned to another district are to be hired. For example, employees go into a pool and are to be offered employment by bordering districts whenever there is a... More... TN Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 No Pass No Drive Amended to Include One Year Suspension/Expulsion H.B. 2260 Adds making a threat, including a false report, to use a bomb, dynamite, any other deadly explosive or destructive device including chemical weapons on school property or at a school sponsored event as a zero tolerance event. Also adds new language as a new se... More... TX Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Exemptions for No-Pass No-Play Law S.B. 1517 Standardizes the exemptions for students enrolled in certain advanced courses from the requirement that a student be suspended from participation in extracurricular activities for receiving an unsatisfactory grade. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/bi... More... AK Adopted 04/2007 P-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE 4 AAC 33.520 Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Amends the participation rate in the Public School Performance IncentiveProgram. Law allows for certificated and noncertificated staff to receive incentive payments on top of their base salary.... More... AR Adopted 04/2007 P-12 Comprehensive Testing, Assessment and Accountability 005.19.06-002, ADE 247 Adopts rules to develop a single comprehensive testing, assessment and accountability program which utilizes the most current and effective testing, evaluation and assessment research information designed to achieve the following: 1) clear academic standards t... More... NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Standards and Accountability S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 1 Adds new sections 211 (see separate record), 211-a, 211-b and 211-c to the education code. Section 211-a: Directs the regents, by the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, to establish an interim, modified accountability system for schools and districts th... 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 03/2007 P-12 charter school, accountability H.B. 1504 Provides a major revision of the Public Charter School Law. Amends Public Charter School Law to allow for obtaining conversion public charter school status, open-enrollment public charter school status, or limited public charter school status. Defines the th... More... MS Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Sanctions Applicable to Schools/Districts Under Conservatorship S.B. 2960 Revises and clarifies sanctions applicable to schools and districts which are under conservatorship due to a declaration of an emergency or designation as a priority school. Clarifies that the state board my abolish and assume control of a school or district. ... More... SD Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Sanctions for Cheating H.B. 1033 Establishes process for following up on allegations of certified personnel and teachers for compromising the integrity of a state-required academic achievement test. Allows the suspension or revocation of the certificate of any certified staff person who knowi... 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... LA Adopted 10/2006 P-12 Compliance Monitoring Procedures LAC 28:XCI.107, 109, and 309 (Bulletin 1922_ Reverts back to having the state board rather than the state superintendent withhold federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) when continuing noncompliance with IDEA is noted in a local school district. Pages 58-59 of 133: htt... More... IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 School/District Improvement Plans S.B. 2829 - School/District Improvement Plans Deletes existing provisions related to the approval of a district improvement plan for a district on academic early warning status or watch status. Replaces with language clarifying that such plans must be approved by the school board. Requires all districts... More... LA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Districts Academically in Crisis H.B. 310 Repeals R.S. 17:10.6(C) and (D). Section (C) limited the power of local boards of districts identified as academically in crisis. Section (D) removed the power of such boards to contract or employ a superintendent or terminate the contract or employment of th... More... LA Adopted 06/2006 P-12 Accountability System LAC 28:LXXXIII.Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 17, 21, 24, 35, 41,43, and 45 Full text of language on pages 8-20 of 62: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0606/0606RUL.pdf Changes define/outline/clarify the following: --school performance score goals (page 8-10 of 62); --calculating the SPS (School Performance Scores) component (p... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 School Achievement Profiles and Improvement Plans H.B. 2359 Relates the district profiles and accountability for schools failing to meet academic standards. Describes information, procedures and other requirements related to school achievement profiles and action plans. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/hb235... More... CA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Accountability and Funding for Low-Performing Schools A.B. 1758 Provides that 36 months after the receipt of funding to implement a school action plan, all schools that are not subject to state monitoring are eligible for a 4th year of funding; requires a school for which the most recent base API places the school in decil... More... IL Adopted 04/2006 P-12 Deadline for Status Appeal 23 IAC 1.95 Modifies deadline for a district's status appeal to within 30 days of receipt of notification from the state board of the school's or district's status level, recognition level, or corrective action, OR by September 1 of the calendar year in which the notifica... More... MD Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 04/2006 P-12 State Takeover of Low Performing Schools H.B. 1215; S.B. 914 Prohibits the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools from imposing a certain restructuring of a governance arrangement of specified schools in Baltimore City or from removing a public school from the direct control of the City Board o... More... NJ Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 School District Fiscal Accountability Act A.B. 2684 Provides for appointment of a state monitor in school districts with fiscal issues such as deficit balances or whose audits found material weaknesses; allows for an advance state aid payment to certain districts and requires repayment of that advance; appropri... More... CO Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 School Improvement and Reviews H.B. 1240 Concerns measures to improve the academic performance of unsatisfactory public schools; allows a school that receives an overall academic performance rating of unsatisfactory to operate under a school improvement plan for 2 full school years; provides for revi... More... SD Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 District Funding Related to Meeting Adequate Yearly Progress S.B. 198 Appropriates funds to increase funding to education and to assist sparse school districts; requires legislation as part of the final report of the study of school funding. School districts that meet adequate yearly progress in reading and math under the terms ... More... GA Signed into law 12/2005 P-12 Accountability and Interventions S.B. 35 Makes the department responsible for the implementation of a single statewide system of accountability. Adds school systems to the system of review and accountability. Strikes subparagraph (D) of paragraph (6) of subsection (a) of Code Section 20-14-41, relati... More... IL Adopted 11/2005 P-12 23 IAC 1.10, thru .70, .75, .80, .85, .90, .95, Makes changes in the accountability system for public schools. Changes the requirement for adequate yearly progress and the indicators that will be considered; the targets for each aspect of performance; the subgroups of students, their participation in state ... More... LA Adopted 11/2005 P-12 AYP and Sanctions for Underperforming Schools LAC 28:LXXXIII.517, 1101, 1501, 1705, 2301, 3301, and 3303 Defines growth label changes for three-star schools. Defines the movement of three-star schools into Academic Assistance if performance significantly declines. Addresses the requirement of districts to address the learning needs of mobile students, the writing... More... LA Signed into law 11/2005 P-12 Recovery School District H.B. 121A Establishes procedures for identifying underperforming schools to be transferred to the Recovery School District. Requires the Recovery School District to provide all educational services to students in transferred schools. Requires the recovery district to ... More... CA Signed into law 10/2005 P-12 School Intervention Contract Criteria H.B. 953 This bill would require the Superintendent to provide a list of approved school assistance and intervention teams with which a school district may contract if it receives funding under the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program.. The bill would... More... MS Signed into law 10/2005 P-12 Hurrican Katrina and school accountability S.B. 2012 Authorizes the state board of education to exempt certain schools from accountability standards due to Hurricane Katrina of 2005. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20055E/pdf/SB/2001-2099/SB2012SG.pdf... More... GA Adopted 07/2005 P-12 Accountability System GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04 Clarifies rules regarding the statewide accountability system, including definitions, profiles and awards and school- and district-level consequences. Also sets forth state audit and record retention requirements for schools and districts. http://www.doe.k12.g... More... CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Corrective Action H.B. 1216 Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ... More... GA Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 No Pass No Drive Revisions S.B. 35 - Attendance Provisions Amends No Pass No Drive law. Adds provision that a student who is pursuing a general education development (GED) diploma will not have his/her drivers license suspended. Amends absences or other behaviors that trigger suspension to include ten or more school d... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Facilities Program Act S.B. 593 Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facili... More... VA Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 P-12 Conducting Division-Level Academic Reviews 8 VAC 20-700-10 thru -50 Outlines the process and procedures for conducting the division-level academic review and submitting the corrective action plan to the Board of Education. Addresses the criteria for selection for the division- level academic review and improvement plans.. VIRG... 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... 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... SC Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 School Districts Rated Unsatisfactory S.B. 90 Authorizes the state board to implement a training program for the school district board of trustees and the district superintendent; authorizes the state board to act as a mediator of personnel issues between the district board and district superintendent; pr... More... LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Education Accountability H.B. 1659 Defines "academically in crisis" district and "academically unacceptable" school. Requires state superintendent to notify the state board, the president of the local board and the local superintendent when a district is found to be academically in crisis. Limi... More... RI Became law without governor's signature 06/2004 P-12 Drivers License Requirement H.B. 7397 Would set eligibility requirements for school attendance to obtain a driver's license for minor students. This act would take effect on January 15, 2005. ... More... RI To governor 06/2004 P-12 No Pass No Drive S.B. 2594 Provides that if a minor accumulates fifteen (15) unexcused absences within ninety (90) calendar days, they are ineligible for driving privileges and would provide for enforcement, notification, compliance, reinstatement and jurisdiction of this provision. Thi... More... TN Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Low Performing Schools and Districts H.B. 1175 Chapter No. 832. Renames low performing schools and school districts as high priority schools and school districts; allows the commissioner to award grants to individual school systems of up to $50,000, to LEAs for planning and implementation purposes. Allows ... More... TN Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Education Performance Goals and Measures H.B. 3511 Deletes several sections of 49-1-601 and and substitutes new language. Relates to educational performance goals and measures;changes from dropout rates to graduation rates; provides for testing; requires all public schools and local education agencies to make... More... OK Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Reading Sufficiency H.B. 2477 Part of this bill relates to the Reading Sufficiency Act; limits certain students who are excluded from the reading goals and program of reading instruction; modifies reading skills to include vocabulary; requires the demonstration of reading proficiency for d... More... VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 School Academic Review H.B. 1294 Modifies provisions. When the state board has obtained evidence through the school academic review process that the failure of schools within a division to achieve full accreditation status is related to division level failure to implement the Standards of Qu... More... NM Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Early Identification of Unexcused Absences H.B. 106 Relates to compulsory school attendance; provides for early identification of unexcused absences and truancy; provides for enforcement of habitual truancy; provides for suspension of an habitual truant's driver's license.... More... WV Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Education H.B. 4111 Requires the state board to adopt system standards, including student performance and progress, school and school system progress, etc. Requires performance measures to incude graduation rate, dropout rate, attendance, student performance; percentage of gradu... More... TX Rule Adoption 12/2003 P-12 Accountability 19 TAC 2.97.A.97.1 thru 97.4 Repeals old rules and establishes rules relating to public school accountability. Each school district must be assigned an accountability rating by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The accountability rating of a school district is based primarily on its overa... More... AR Rule Adoption 11/2003 P-12 Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, & Accountability Program and Academic Distress Program ADE 162 Establishes rules governing the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment and Accountability Program and the Academic Distress Program (ACTAAP). http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20162%20actaap.pdf... More... IL Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 School Accountability S.B. 878 Makes changes concerning school recognition standards for student performance and school improvement, recognition levels, rewards and acknowledgements for schools and school districts, academic warning and watch statuses for schools and districts, school and d... More... OH Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Consequences for Schools H.B. 3--Section 3302.03 Spells out what constitutes school or district status of "excellent," "effective," "in need of continuous improvement," "academic watch" and "academic emergency." Sets out requirements for processes and consequences of failing to meet adequate yearly progress ... More... CA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 High-Priority Schools A.B. 96 Designates low-performing schools as high-priority schools for purposes of the Academic Performance Index. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_96&sess=CUR&house=B&author=bermudez... More... AR Rule Adoption 06/2003 P-12 Comprehensive Testing/Assessment/Accountability Program ADE 188 Requires the development of a single Arkansas comprehensive testing, assessment and accountability program (ACTAAP); ensures all public school students have an equal opportunity to demonstrate grade-level academic proficiency; improves student learning and cla... More... LA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Temporary Driver's License Revocation for School Disciplinary Infractions H.B. 1686 Requires the principal of any public or private school to notify the office of motor vehicles when any student between the ages of 14 and 18 has been subjected to any of the following disciplinary actions: expulsion or suspension from school for ten or more co... More... MD Rule Adoption 06/2003 P-12 State Reconstitution COMAR 13A.01.04.10 A. If the State Board of Education rejects a local board of education reconstitution proposal, school improvement plan, or annual update, or approves the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Schools for State reconstitution of a school, the State Boar... More... NH Became law without governor's signature 06/2003 P-12 School Peformance and Accountability Chapter H.B. 139 (193-G:1) Requires state commissioner to make public a list of schools not meeting performance targets. Establishes strategic responses for local education improvement plans. Requires state department to work cooperatively with the school or district(s). Establishes ... More... NV Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Consequences for Low-Performing Schools S.B. 1 (Omnibus Bill) The act sets forth the consequences for public schools and school districts that are designated as demonstrating need for improvement. Schools and school districts must be designated as "in need of improvement" on the basis of two consecutive years of data, a... More... TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Low Performing Public Schools S.B. 618 Requires the commissioner of education to reconstitute any campus rated as low performing for two consecutive years, removing closure of the school program as one of the possible penalties. Provides that a special campus intervention team would decide which ed... 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... LA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Transfer of Failed School or Failed Charter to Recovery School District S.B. 710 Specifies that any elementary or secondary school found academically unacceptable under the state school accountability system must be designated a "failed school." If the local board 1) does not present the state board with a plan to reconstitute the failed ... More... AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Quality Education Act of 2003 - Districts in Fiscal Distress H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill) Adds §§ 6-20-1901- 6-15-1911. Creates the Arkansas Fiscal Assessment and Accountability Program; to establish and implement a program at the Department of Education to identify, assess and address school districts in fiscal distress. http://www.arkleg.state.ar... More... AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Quality Education Act of 2003 - Governance H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill) Amends §§ 6-13-1403 - 6-13-1405; 6-13-1410. Outlines the conditions and the policies under which the State Board of Education may annex school districts who fail to meet the requirements of The Quality Education Act of 2003. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftpro... More... SC Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2003 P-12 Impaired Local School District H.B. 3872 (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to intervention where quality of education in a local school district is impaired. The state department recommends the repeal of Regulation 43-301, Intervention Where Quality of Educat... More... NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Takeover Provisions H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Amends Sections 22-2-6 and Section 22-2-14 to allow the state department to take over the control and management of a public schools or district that has failed to meet requirements of law or state board rules and standards. The state board may suspend a board... More... NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Adquate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Outlines procedures and timelines for schools that have failed to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years (ranked as a school that needs improvement). These schools must develop an improvement plan with documentation of performance measures in... More... WV Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 No Pass No Drive Changes S.B. 162 Expunges motor vehicle license information for nineteen-year-olds when suspensions or revocations of their licenses are due to school attendance.... More... NM Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Indicators and Measurements/School Ratings NMAC 6.19.1.8, 6.19.1.9; 6.19.2.16 Establishes rules annually measuring public schools on the five statewide indicators. All scores, rates, and other measures used in the Accountability Rating System are to be verified by the department. Assessment data is to be considered for accountability ra... More... NM Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Public School Accountability, General Provisions 6.19.1, 6.19.2 NMAC Amends rules regarding the annual measurement of schools. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.019.0001.pdf 6.19.1.9 Addresses school ratings: A. A school's rating will determine when intervention is appropriate. B. A school's rating is deter... More... PA Signed into law 12/2002 P-12 Distressed School Districts H.B. 2644 Authorizes the state superintendent to petition the court in the county to take over any district that has been declared "distressed." http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2001/0/HB2644P4690.HTM... More... CA Vetoed 09/2002 P-12 Requires State Takeover A.B. 1904 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assume all the legal rights, duties and powers of the governing board of the West Fresno Elementary School District. Authorizes the superintendent to appoint an administrator to act on its behalf in exercisi... More... CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Sanctions S.B. 1310 Sets deadlines regarding sanctions applied to state-monitored schools, allows for the placement of a trustee at a low-performing school. Specifies the duties and obligations of a school district with regard to a state-monitored school. Subjects a school, with ... More...