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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| LA | Adopted 12/2012 | P-12 | 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 schools as gainers or "declining". Amends §1103, "Honor Rolls", which calls for the identification of schools receiving an A or B or whose graduation rate is greater than or equal to the state average. Adds §1105, which provides that if a turnaround operator takes over an entire school that was labeled "F" in the previous school year, the school's grade must be reported as "T" for the first two years of operation. Amends §1301, "Reward Eligibility."
Pages 60-61 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 11, 13
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov
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| LA | Adopted 12/2012 | P-12 | 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://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII, §2901, Chapter 31
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | 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 act. Requires the state superintendent to annually provide to local educational agencies and the public an explanation of the individual components of the API and their relative values, and prohibits an additional element from being incorporated into the API until at least one full school year after the state board's decision to include the element into the API. Requires the state superintendent to annually determine the accuracy of graduation rate data, and deletes the requirement that the state superintendent report annually to the legislature on graduation and dropout rates. Authorizes the state superintendent to incorporate into the API the rates at which pupils successfully promote from one grade to the next in middle school and high school and matriculate from middle school to high school, as well as pupil preparedness for postsecondary education and career. Deletes the requirement that the API be used to measure the progress of specified schools and to rank all public schools for the purpose of the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program.
Requires that results from certain standards-based achievement tests and the high school exit examination constitute no more than 60% of the value of the index for secondary schools, commencing with the baseline API calculation in 2016 (currently these test results constitute at least 60% of the value of the index). Requires the state superintendent, on or before October 1, 2013, to report to the legislature a method for increasing emphasis on pupil mastery of standards in science and social science through the system of public school accountability or by other means and an alternative method or methods, in place of decile rank, for determining eligibility, preferences, or priorities for any statutory program that uses decile rank as a determining factor.
Incorporates additional changes in Section 52052 of the Education Code, proposed by AB 1668 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1668_bill_20120921_chaptered.pdf, chaptered 9/21/12), to be operative only if AB 1668 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1451-1500/sb_1458_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1458
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MO | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | 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/12info/pdf-bill/tat/SB599.pdf (page 9)
Title: S.B. 599- Gifted Education
Source: www.senate.mo.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | 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 education, the Ohio association of city career-technical schools, and the Ohio association of career-technical superintendents, to approve a report card for joint vocational school districts and for other career-technical planning districts that are not joint vocational school districts. Directs the state board to submit details of the approved report card to the governor, and certain legislative leaders principally responsible for education policy. Directs the department of education to annually issue a report card for each joint vocational school district and career-technical planning district, beginning with report cards for the 2012-2013 school year to be published by September 1, 2013. Requires the department to combine certain information so as to report it on the report card for joint vocational school districts and other career-technical planning districts (more details on this information on pages 46-52 of 592).
Pages 51, 53-54 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Report Card for Joint Vocational School Districts & Other Career-Technical Planning Districts
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | 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 card. Pages 95-96 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Public Accountability Report Card at Student Enrollment
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | 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 stakeholders on how the system can reflect each school's overall academic proficiency as well as academic progress, along with other key performance indicators. Directs the state superintendent to prescribe the design and content of the school grading system by December 31, 2012, and provides legislative intent that the system be in place by the 2013-14 school year. Permits the state superintendent to assign grades to school feeder patterns or grades that reflect the fiscal health and fiscal efficiency of a school or school system. Provides relative to making grades available to the public and to parents of public school students. Requires that a school's grade, at a minimum, be based on a combination of student achievement scores, achievement gap, college and career readiness, learning gains, and other indicators as determined by the state superintendent.
Establishes the Legislative School Performance Recognition Program to recognize high performance and exemplary progress in school rankings, to be implemented no earlier than the school grading system's 2nd academic year of implementation, provided rules governing the program's administration and implementation have been promulgated by the state department of education. Provides for the awarding of financial awards to selected schools, subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Requires that funds be awarded on a competitive basis. Provides relative to awarding of funds to schools. Provides that a school eligible for an award is exempt from any statute or regulation related to the prescribed use of funds at the school level, or any categorical spending requirements imposed through the appropriation of funds from the state, except those requirements associated with the receipt of federal funds. Requires that a list of schools eligible for an award be posted annually on the department of education website. Provides that a school eligible for an award is eligible for this flexibility regardless of whether the school receives a financial award.
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | 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 prominently shown and requires the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to investigate any complaints it receives and issue a written notification to the school or district. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0360.pdf
Title: H.B. 2622
Source: azleg.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | (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 highest by SPI; 3) the formula and method the department used to calculate each school's SPI, and 4) the alternative versions of the formula used to calculate school subject indexes for non-elementary grades. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ACT/PA/2012PA-00116-R00SB-00458-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 458
Source: cga.ct.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | 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 commission on school accreditation; Authorizes the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in a school district whose accreditation has been withdrawn to petition for a transfer into an accredited school district and to provide for the transfer of state adequate program funds to the transferee school district; Authorizes the State Board of Education to abolish a school district and administratively consolidate with one or more existing school districts in emergency situations with the approval of the transferee school district; Authorizes loans to school districts under conservatorship from the school district emergency assistance fund and provides that such fund is a special fund which shall not lapse into the state general fund; 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 growth; Provides that such new terminology for accreditation rating purposes is effective upon full implementation of Common Core State Standards and Assessments; Provides that a board member or superintendent in office at the time the governor declares a state of emergency in a school district is not eligible to serve in that office in such school district and provides that the new superintendent in such school district be appointed.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/SB/2700-2799/SB2737SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2737
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | 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 growth. Provides that such new terminology for accreditation rating purposes shall be effective upon full implementation of Common Core State Standards and Assessments.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/SB/2700-2799/SB2776SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2776
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | 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 reporting at least every three years. Defines accountability rankings for LEAs. Details three types of interventions for low-achieving schools: school turnaround through school improvement grant (SIG); turnaround through creation of LEA Innovation Zone; or placement into achievement school district. Authorizes commissioner to appoint individuals, nonprofit or governmental entities to manage school operations when founding an achievement school district.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB2208.pdf
Title: S.B. 2208
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | 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 statewide assessments, or has significantly lower graduation rates for a subgroup compared to the state's graduation rate. Revises provisions requiring a charter school to implement a school improvement plan to raise student achievement. Revises corrective actions to be selected and implemented by a low-performing charter school. Provides requirements for implementation of corrective actions and intervention and support strategies identified in a charter school's school improvement plan. Provides for termination of a charter school not making continuous improvement unless it meets specified criteria. Revises provisions relating to the state board's authority to enforce public school improvement, to require the state board to comply with the federal flexibility waiver approved by the U.S. secretary of education. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, directs the department of education to annually identify each public school in need of intervention and support to improve student academic performance. Defines all schools earning a grade of "D" or "F" as schools in need of intervention and support. Directs the state board to adopt by rule a differentiated matrix of intervention and support strategies for assisting traditional public schools and rules for assisting a charter school that has earned a "D" or "F." Specifies that the state board must apply the most intense intervention and support strategies to schools earning an "F" grade. Deletes department duties relating to the categorization of low-performing schools. Provides state board, district, and school requirements for implementing strategies and turnaround options to improve school performance. Revises turnaround options available to a district, and requires state board approval of the option selected for implementation. Directs the state board to adopt rules relating to plans for implementing turnaround options. Requires districts, for the 2012-13 school year, to use 15% of their Title I funds to meet supplemental educational services requirements. Requires that supplemental educational services be provided in Title I schools to students performing at Level 1 or Level 2 on the FCAT. Requires each district to contract with department-approved supplemental educational service providers. Revises the contents of the annual report of statewide assessment program results. Requires school report cards to include the percent of students performing at or above grade level and making a year's learning growth in a year's time in reading and math. Revises certain criteria on which school letter grades are based, including permitting more than 50% of a high school's grade to be based on specified factors (previous legislation made specified factors 50% of a high school's letter grade). Includes Postseconary Education Readiness Test as part of calculation of high school's letter grade. Amends methodology for calculating a school district's grade. Requires district grades to be calculated using student performance and learning gains data on statewide assessments for students enrolled in a district for a full school year. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7127er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7127&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7127 - School Improvement and Education Accountability
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | 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 financial efficiency and school climate, and permits the office to include other indicators. Requires quality of learning indicators to be based on student achievement, achievement gap closure, and student progress, and to be disaggregated by all subgroups as required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Deletes existing student achievement and school performance indicators. Identifies permissible components of financial efficiency and school climate determinations. Requires financial efficiency and school climate to be rated from 1 to 5 stars, and requires each of these ratings to be included on school and school system report cards, along with an explanation of the criteria that inform each of these ratings.. Requires school and school system quailty of learning ratings to be a numerical score on a scale of 0-100, with a majority of the quality of learning score based on student achievement. Requires school completion data to be included in school and school system indicators of quality of learning. Requires school and school system report cards to include performance data on quality of learning, financial efficiency, and school climate. Repeals language requiring school performance data in report cards to be compared to specified other performance indicators. Requires statewide report card to include rating for each school and school system (previously only school ratings included). Makes awarding of financial financial awards by director of office of student achievement optional rather than mandatory, and bases awards on reduction of achievement gap. Adds unacceptable progress in achievement gap closure to grounds for assistance and intervention in a school. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127822.pdf
Title: S.B. 410
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | 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 performance within the next two years. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0076.pdf
Title: H.B. 2663
Source: azleg.gov
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Establishes and sets membership for the Task Force on Accountable Schools to develop a plan to improve accountability practices for schools and make recommendations.(sec. 22)
http://www.leg.state.or.us/12reg/measpdf/hb4000.dir/hb4014.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 4014
Source: leg.state.or.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | 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 and consider eliminating a report that has low value compared to the time and effort spent to produce the report. Directs the state board to report to the Education Interim Committee by October 2012 on state board actions to modify or eliminate reporting requirements, and recommendations for the elimination or modification of reporting requirements imposed by state statute. Repeals these provisions effective July 1, 2013. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0500.pdf
Title: H.B. 500
Source: le.utah.gov
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | 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 state board to publish performance reports comparing school performance to established targets.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2012/Enroll/SF0057.pdf
Title: S.F. 57
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2012 | P-12 | 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 and school report cards by the most economic means. Repeals language establishing indicators for state, district and school report cards. Repeals provision directing each Chicago attendance center to prepare a report card in accordance with state guidelines. Directs the state superintendent to determine, in addition to any information required by federal law, the indicators and presentation of the school report card, including in Chicago. Requires that the report card include specified information related to (1) school characteristics and student demographics; (2) curriculum information, including as applicable Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, dual enrollment courses, foreign language classes, school personnel resources (including Career Technical Education teachers), before- and after-school programs, extracurricular activities, health and wellness initiatives (including the average number of days of physical education per week per student), awards received, community partnerships, and special programs such as programming for the gifted and talented, students with disabilities, and work-study students); (3) student outcomes, including as applicable the percentage of 8th graders who pass algebra, the percentage of students enrolled in post-secondary programs within two semesters of high school graduation, the percentage of students graduating high school college-ready and/or career-ready, percentage of graduates enrolled in a remedial course; (4) student progress, including as applicable the percentage of 9th graders who have earned at least 5 credits without failing more than one core class, a measure of students' kindergarten readiness, a measure of growth, and the percentage of students entering high school on track for college and career readiness; (5) the school environment (including various indicators of student and teacher absenteeism, teacher and principal turnover).
Clarifies that the school report card must allow current outcome, progress and environment data to be compared to the state average, to the school data from the past 5 years, and to the outcomes, progress and environment of similar schools based on the type of school and enrollment of low-income, special education, and limited English proficiency students. Provides that at the state superintendent's discretion, district report cards also include a subset of the aforementioned information required for school report cards, as well as information related to per-pupil operating expenses and other district finances, and state report cards include a subset of the information required for school report cards. Gives the state superintendent discretion at any time to amend or update any and all metrics on the school, district or state report card. Specifies that every district, within 30 calendar days of receipt of the district and school report cards, present such report cards at a regular school board meeting. Repeals provision that required districts to submit report cards to the office of the district's regional superintendent. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0671.pdf
Title: H.B. 605
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NM | Adopted 01/2012 | P-12 | Requests a work group to review the public school reporting requirements.
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/12%20Regular/memorials/house/HM013.pdf
Title: H.M. 13
Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2011 | P-12 | 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 status of its schools for purposes of the No Child Left Behind Act, for the most recent school year for which it is available. Also, within 20 days after Department of Education informs the board or board of directors of the accreditation status of its schools for the most recent school year for which it is available, the board must post a notice of the accreditation status of each school it operates on the homepage of its website. [taken directly from bill]
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/publicact/pdf/2011-PA-0277.pdf
Title: S.B. 618
Source: legislature.mi.gov
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | 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 engagement of families in the support of the education of their children. Revises the contents of the annual reports of accountability for school districts prepared by school districts to include information on the involvement of parents and the engagement of families in the education of their children.Revises requirement that all school districts develop a plan for improving the pupil achievement to require that such plans include strategies and practices to improve and promote effective involvement and engagement of parents and families. Requires the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to prescribe coursework on parental involvement and family engagement. Revises the membership of the Statewide Council for the Coordination of the Regional Training Programs to include the Director of the Office of Parental Involvement and Family Engagement. Requires the Statewide Council to establish a statewide program for teachers and administrators concerning parental involvement and family engagement. Requires the regional training programs for the professional development of teachers and administrators to provide training on parental involvement and family engagement.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB224_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 224
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | 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.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/sb0001.dir/sb0027.en.html
Title: S.B. 27
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | 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 communication methods upon certain conditions. Requires the DOE to suspend writing assessments for certain grades and to provide that writing assessments may not be used in growth calculation. Suspends the requirement that schools advertise district and school 2011 report cards, but requires the results to be provided to an area newspaper of general circulation. Allows high schools to offer state-funded WorkKey assessments to certain students. Provides for a one-year grace period for certain recipients of a South Carolina Teacher Loan and requires the South Carolina Student Loan Corporation to develop forms and procedures to implement the grace period. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3663.htm
Title: H.B. 3663
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 begins receiving administrative fees from schools chartered by the board. Adds certain nonprofit private colleges and universities as eligible charter school sponsors. Establishes certain accountability criteria for charter school sponsors, and places charter schools under accountability standards for public schools. Adds: (1) student academic growth; (2) financial performance and stability; and (3) board performance and stewardship; to the list of items to be included in a charter school's charter. Requires uniform and consistent transfer of credits for students who transfer from a charter school to another public school. Stipulates that a teacher in a conversion charter school may be an employee of the charter school or the school corporation as determined in a charter school's charter. Provides that at least 90% of the full time teachers in a charter school must be licensed or in the process of obtaining a license. Ends the virtual charter school pilot program, and allows existing virtual charter schools to seek sponsors. Provides that a virtual charter school's funding is equal to the sum of: (1) the virtual charter school's ADM multiplied by 85% of the school's foundation amount (rather than 80% of the statewide average basic tuition support, under current law); plus (2) the total of any special education grants to which the virtual charter school is entitled. Provides that each school year, at least 60% of the students who are enrolled in virtual charter schools for the first time must have been included in the state's ADM count for the previous school year. Sets out the conditions, accounting process, and reporting procedures for a charter school sponsor concerning the collection of fees from its sponsored charter schools. Requires the department of education to establish a charter school page on the department's Internet web site. Establishes the charter school facilities assistance program and fund. Specifies the purposes for which grants and loans of money in the fund may be used. Provides that money in the fund may be used to match federal grants from the United States Department of Education for charter school facilities, and deletes current law that allows common school fund interest to provide these state matching funds. Changes the procedure for converting a public school into a charter school. Establishes a "trigger" for conversion of a school to a charter school with both parents and the school board signing off on the conversion. Establishes a process by which charter schools may lease or purchase unused, closed, or unoccupied school buildings that are maintained by school corporations and are not being used for classroom instruction. Permits the state board of education to close a charter school, transfer sponsorship of a charter school, or reduce the administrative fees collected by the sponsor of the charter.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1002.1.html
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: http://www.in.gov
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 and natural gas production taxes at the state level for school districts whose tax allocation exceeds 150% of the district's maximum or adopted general fund budget. SB 329 will create increased revenue in the state general fund of $11.3 million in FY 2012 and $1.1 million in FY 2013. Section 3 of the bill allows school districts to enter into multidistrict agreements to perform any services, activities, and undertakings of the participating districts. This section also authorizes each participating district to transfer funds into the interlocal cooperative fund from the general fund or any other budgeted fund of the district. Under SB 329, there is no limit on the amount that can be transferred from budgeted funds other than the school district general fund which is limited to the amount of the district's direct state aid (DSA).
Section 5(2), requires the OPI to develop publicly available district educational profiles that include include school district contact information, state criterion-referenced testing results, programs and course offerings, student enrollment and demographic information by grade level, and graduation rates. Section 5(3) requires each school district to annually report to the OPI the number and type of employee positions; compensation paid to each employee; the certification held by the employee and required by the position, student-teacher ratios by grade; the amount spent by the district for operation and maintenance and for debt service; district expenditures per pupil; the total budget for all funds; the total number of students enrolled and average daily attendance; the total amount spent by the district on extracurricular activities and the number of students who participated; and the number of students who entered 9th grade but did not graduate. Requires each district to post on its website copies of collective bargaining agreements and the district costs associated with employee union representation, collective bargaining, union grievance procedures, and litigation resulting from union employee grievances. Requires oil and natural gas production taxes allocated to a district to be distributed to the district in accordance with section 7 of SB 329. Effective July 1, 2012, establishes a state school oil and natural gas impact account to help counties and school districts that are not receiving oil and natural gas production taxes, but are impacted by oil and natural gas production, defray costs associated with increased school enrollments, teacher shortages, and infrastructure. The balance in the account may not exceed $7.5 million. Any amount in excess of $7.5 million must be deposited in the state general fund.
Fiscal note: http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/FNPDF/SB0329.pdf
Full text: http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/billpdf/SB0329.pdf
Title: S.B. 329
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 on pupil achievement maintained in the system be used to evaluate paraprofessionals. Under existing law, the board of trustees of each school district and the governing board of each charter school are required to administer certain examinations to determine the achievement and proficiency of pupils and to report the results of those examinations to the Department of Education. Section 2 and 3 revise the manner in which the results of pupils on those examinations are reported by requiring the governing body of each charter school to submit the results and other required information through the sponsor of the charter school.
Title: S.B. 35
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 resulting in suspension or explusion for bullying, cyber-bulling, harassment and intimidation.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB138_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 138--Report Cards
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 percentile of students in the school in reading and mathematics on criterion-referenced tests and end-of-instruction tests and 33 percent on whole school improvement. For middle school grades and elementary school grades, total school improvement will be based upon the drop-out rate, the percentage of students taking higher level coursework at a satisfactory or higher level and any other factors selected by the superintendent of public instruction.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB1456%20ENR.DOC
Title: H.B. 1456
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | 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 information about student participation in ACT or SAT testing and college preparatory enrichment programs in the annual school performance report.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB737.pdf
Title: S.B. 737
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | 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 district's annual financial report for the previous fiscal year by October 15; (2) the school district' proposed budget by July 5 or no later than the posted public notice of the mandatory public hearing; and (c) the final adopted budget by July 18. Chapter 197
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2421s.pdf
Title: H.B. 2421
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | 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 all expenditures made by the education provider to include posting the annual budget approved by the education provider's governing board within thirty days after its approval, and any current master labor agreements approved by the education provider's governing board.
http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1184.pdf
Title: S.B. 1184 - Accountability
Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | 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 form for second-class districts. Adds a provision to numerous chapters of the common school code allowing second-class districts to satisfy any compliance reporting requirements in those chapters by submitting a condensed compliance report. Effective 07/22/2011
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/5184-S.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5184
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | 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 measures that indicate college and career readiness. Directs the state board to model the school grading system using school performance data for the 2010-11 school year. Outlines method of calculating points for students' proficiency in language arts, math, science and writing, and for student learning gains in language arts, math and science. Requires that the school grading system take effect in the 2011-12 school year and replace the U-PASS accountability system. Imposes requirements for the reporting of a school's grade. Directs the state board of education to make rules to implement the school grading system, and make reports and recommendations for proposed legislation to the education interim committee. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0059.pdf
Title: S.B. 59
Source: le.utah.gov
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | 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 target levels for school year 2012-2013
(2) Report development and implementation of pilot program to Select Committee with a final report December 1, 2011
--State Board of Education to develop and implement statewide benchmark adaptive assessment for school year 2012-2013
(1) Benchmark adaptive reading and mathematic assessments administered at district level
(2) State Board of Education is to establish statewide standards for assessing student growth in math and reading for students in
grades K-8
(3) Statewide standards are to be separate from but correlated with the statewide assessment system
(4) Statewide standards shall include: (a) Uniform, statewide benchmark testing system; (b) Prescribed growth by subject area and
grade level; (c) Procedures for aligning benchmark assessment results, with 2011-2012 as baseline year; (d) Use of assessment
results to design educational strategies for improvement and enhancement of student performance
--State Board of Education is to align statewide assessment components with accountability system
--State Board of Education will review an alternative to current body of evidence system
(1) Provide a district level of assessment enabling considtent, comparable and aligned measures
(2) Provide multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate proficiency at the student, teacher, school and district levels
(3) Consider end-of-course examinations as an alternative to body of evidence system
(4) Goal is to replace current body of evidence system for school year 2012-2013
(5) State Board is to report to Select Committee on Accountability
--Changes to current statewide assessment system
(1) State board also tasked with developing a statewide multiple-choice, standardized summative assessment meeting the
minimum requirements of NCLB
(2) Statewide assessment will no longer require the comprehensive and in-depth measurement of state content and performance
standards (Stoplight Report)
(3) Develop an authentic statewide assessment of student writing skills which is: (a) Limited to one writing prompt in school year
2011-12, the initial year of implementation statewide as a pilot assessment; (b) Based upon research and encourages rigor in
the classroom; (c) Developed outside of and not as a part of the requirements under NCLB; (d) Administered separately and at
different times from the statewide summative assessment in other subject areas; (e) Fully implemented in the 2012-2013 school
year and each year thereafter; (f) At least 30 days prior to issuing a request for proposal to commence development and
implementation of a statewide summative assessment, the state superintendent shall submit the proposed RFP to the Select
Committee on Accountability for review
Local school district boards of trustees will:
--Continue to use "body of evidence" system until school year 2012-2013 to extent not inconsistent with growth assessment
features
--Implement the statewide benchmark assessment system established by the State Board of Education which requires
administration of benchmark testing not less than two times per year, with appropriate linkages to teachers and schools within
districts
--Statewide education accountability system requires evaluation of school principal performance by district superintendent
--Shall report in writing to State Board of Education verification of principal performance including that principals have scored
sufficiently to continue employment.
Act is effective immediately except for changes to statewide assessment which are effective July 1, 2012.
Title: S.F. 70--Assessment
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| AK | Adopted 01/2011 | P-12 | 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 the 4-year or 5-year extended graduation rate. Previously, 55.58% served as the minimum graduation rate target for public accountability; new rulemaking increases the minimum graduation rate target to 85%. Amends provisions relating to graduation rate for schools serving fewer than 25 students. Creates definition for "five year extended graduation rate." Creates definition of "émigré" for purposes of school, district and state accountability.
Title: 4 AAC 06.825, 895, 899
Source: AS 14.03.123 AS 13.07.060 AS 14.50.080
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | 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 and most improvement since the previous year(s). Replaces with provision directing the commissioner to compare the incidence of violent and disruptive incidents in schools and districts with other schools and districts based on similarity in size, grade levels and other characteristics, including student need and resources, as determined by the commissioner.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A11566&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 11566 - Section 4
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| TX | Adopted 07/2010 | P-12 | 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 charter school performance is reported. The section also adopts the most recently published PBMAS Manual. The proposed amendment would adopt applicable excerpts of the Performance-Based Monitoring Analysis System 2010 Manual. Earlier versions of the manual will remain in effect with respect to the school years for which they were developed. Adopted as published in the July 30, 2010 Texas Register (pp 5-10 of 51): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0730/0730adop.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 97.1005
Source: www.sos.state.tx.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | 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 that contains the four-year cohort dropout rate of the school and the number of students in the school that have been identified as failing pursuant to the school and district accountability system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722458
Title: S.B. 753
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | 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 develop a letter grade system reflective of school and district performance. The letter grades will be included in school and district report cards.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722542
Title: H.B. 925
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | 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 standards for food and beverages served in public schools
(3) Make periodic recommendations to the department of education for the development of a clearinghouse of best practices in the areas of student nutrition, physical activity for students, and body mass index (BMI) screenings
(4) Assist the department of health in developing a list of resources on health risks associated with weight status, for distribution to parents
(5) Regularly review developments in science and nutrition to inform recommendations to the state board and department of education.
Requires the department of education, upon receipt of the council's initial recommendations, to establish a clearinghouse of best practices that schools may use to promote student health. Directs the department to update the clearinghouse as needed to reflect subsequent council recommendations.
Establishes new Section 3313.674, which requires students in kindergarten, 3rd, 5th and 9th grades to undergo a BMI and weight status category screening. Allows parents to opt their child out of screening requirement. Requires parents of each screened student to be notified of any health risks associated with the student's results and to be provided with information about appropriately addressing the risks. Requires local boards/charter school governing authorities to report aggregated BMI and weight status category data and any other demographic data required by the director of health, to the department of health. Allows a local board/governing authority to obtain a waiver from this requirement.
Directs the department of education to issue an annual report on public schools' compliance with new Section 3313.674. Establishes new Section 3313.6016, which directs the department of education, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, to administer a pilot program requiring daily physical activity for students. Permits any district, charter school, STEM school or nonpublic school to choose to participate; if a district elects to participate, requires all buildings operated by that district to participate. Specifies that participating schools must require students (grades K-12) to engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate to rigorous physical activity, not including recess, and that physical activity as part of a physical education course or before- or after-school activity may count towards this requirement. Identifies students excused from this requirement, including among others kindergarten students not enrolled in a full-day kindergarten program. Requires participating districts or schools to report to the department how the 30 minutes of daily physical activity was implemented and the financial cost of implementation; requires the department to issue an annual report of this data.
By December 31, 2011, directs the state board of education to develop a measure of (1) student success in meeting benchmarks in the physical education standards; (2) compliance with the requirements for local wellness policies prescribed by the federal "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004"; (3) whether a school or district is complying with or operating under a waiver from Section 3313.674; and (4) whether a district or building is participating in the physical activity pilot program established through new Section 3313.6016. Requires the measure to be included in building and district report cards, beginning with report cards issued for the 2012-13 school year, but specifies that the measure will not be a factor in performance ratings issued. Permits the department to accept, receive and expend gifts, devises or bequests of money for the purpose of establishing this measure.
Amends high school graduation requirements to require the half-unit of health to include instruction in nutrition and the benefits of nutritious foods and physical activity for overall health.
Requires that each public, charter and STEM school teacher hired after July 2013 to teach physical education holds a valid license for teaching physical education.
Pages 1-14, 22 and 28-29 of 32: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_210_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 210, Part I
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | 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 expenditures to the Department by the school district.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB1633_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 1633
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | 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 internet all of their expenditures in either
a nonsearchable pdf format, a searchable pdf format, a spreadsheet or in a database format.
The internet based website will contain only information that is a public record. Chapter 263
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/H0699.htm
Title: H.B. 699
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | 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/Bills/106/Bill/SB2198.pdf
Title: S.B. 2198
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | 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) deleting the reporting of pupil-adult ratios. Rewrites statutory language on method for calculating school and district pupil-teacher ratios in the state superintendent's annual report. Requires data on pupil-teacher ratios to additionally be reported by district, and by state-level aggregate for charter schools and public schools. Requires the section of the state superintendent's annual report dealing with pupil-teacher ratios to indicate the Web site where pupil-teacher ratios for each school in the state may be accessed. Requires data on charter school funding, including state allocations and local expenditures, to be included in the state superintendent's annual report.
Specifies how average class size at the elementary and secondary school levels must be reported. Requires that special education classes and online classes be excluded when determining average class sizes at the elementary and secondary school levels. http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/sbillenr/sb0056.pdf
Title: S.B. 56
Source: le.utah.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | 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 administer criterion-referenced tests to students in grade 2. Directs the state board, before the October 2010 Education Interim Committee meeting, to present its plan for a pilot program for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years to (1) replace the 10th-grade basic skills competency test with computer adaptive testing of basic skills, and (2) administer the ACT exam to high school students. Directs the state board to implement such a pilot program during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. Exempts districts and charter schools from administering the 10th-grade basic skills competency test during the the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. Directs the state board to re-direct the money saved by not administering the 10th-grade basic skills competency test to fund implementation of the pilot program during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 fiscal years. Exempts a student from the 10th-grade basic skills competency test requirement if the student was in 10th grade in the 2008-09 or 2009-10 school years and did not pass the competency test (10th-grade basic skills competency test functions as exit exam unless certain waivers apply).
Section 5: Exempts local boards from the requirement to develop and administer activity disclosure statements for high school-level extracurricular activities (as called for in Section 53A-3-420) until the 2012-13 school year.
Section 6: Exempts the state board, until the 2012-13 school year, from the requirements called for in Section 53A-3-602.5 to annually (1) develop a school performance report for schools, districts and charter schools, and (2) collect and electronically report specified performance data for schools, districts and charter schools.
Section 7: Exempts a school district from certain requirements related to the disposal of textbooks until the 2012-13 school year.
Section 8: Until the 2012-13 school year, releases districts from the requirement in Section 53A-13-107 that an annual presentation on adoption be given to students in grades 7-12.
Section 9: Until the 2012-13 school year, releases districts from the requirement in Section 53A-14-107 regarding alignment of primary instructional materials aligned with the core curriculum adopted under Section 53A-1-402.
http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0166.pdf
Title: H.B. 166
Source: le.utah.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 630
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | 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 satisfies certain requirements; makes other changes concerning traffic safety courses, college credit programs, employee training programs, certain curriculum and special education requirements, student assessments and learning plans, and other matters. Chapter 244
Title: S.B. 6604
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | 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 number of industry certifications obtained, state licensure examinations passed, and career and technical education completers who graduate; requires all four numbers to be reported as four separate categories on the School Performance Report Card.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB566ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 566
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | 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 districts that do not submit accurate data within the state board's timeframes may have federal funds withheld. Eliminates provision that schools and districts that do not make adequate yearly progress in same subgroup in two consecutive years or successive years are subject to accountability provisions. Requires schools to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years (previously was one year) to be removed from any accountability warning designation. Replaces reference to state board's "research department" with reference to "data division." Pages 1-11 of 63: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1977lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1977 - Reporting, Accountability and Data
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | 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 gifted and talented students, and gifted and talented students, professional services, instructional materials, equipment and supplies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667658
Title: H.B. 821
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | 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 by school building, including expenditures for salaries, and with expenditures for classroom teachers, other certified staff, and all other employees reported separately, as well as per-pupil expenditures per building.
Provides that the state board's existing minimum standards for all public schools must require instructional materials and equipment, including library materials, to be aligned with the academic content standards. Directs the state board to adopt minimum operating standards for school districts, which districts must comply with unless they receive a waiver from the state superintendent. According to DOE summary, the operating standards override any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement. Provides the operating standards must include:
(1) Standards for the effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of districts (full text of this provision in "full text" field below)
(2) Standards for the establishment of business advisory councils and family and civic engagement teams by school districts
(3) Standards incorporating the classifications for the components of the adequacy amount under Chapter 3306 of the Revised Code into core academic strategy components and academic improvement components, as specified in rules adopted under section 3306.25 of the Revised Code
(4) Standards for school district organizational units, as defined in sections 3306.02 and 3306.04 of the Revised Code, that require:
(i) The effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of each school district organizational unit so that it becomes a thinking and learning organization according to principles of systems design and collaborative professional learning communities research as defined by the state superintendent, including a focus on the personalized and individualized needs of each student; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to develop a common vision, mission and set of guiding principles; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to engage in a process of collective inquiry, action orientation and experimentation to ensure the academic success of all students; commitment to job-embedded professional development and professional mentoring and coaching; established periods of time for teachers to pursue planning time for the development of lesson plans, professional development, and shared learning; commitment to effective management strategies that allow administrators reasonable access to classrooms for observation and professional development experiences; commitment to teaching and learning strategies that utilize technological tools and emphasize inter-disciplinary, real-world, project-based, and technology-oriented learning experiences to meet the individual needs of every student; commitment to high expectations for every student and commitment to closing the achievement gap so that all students achieve core knowledge and skills in accordance with the statewide academic standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code; commitment to the
use of assessments to diagnose the needs of each student; effective connections and relationships with families and others that support student success; commitment to the use of positive behavior intervention supports throughout the organizational unit to ensure a safe and secure learning environment for all students
(ii) A school organizational unit leadership team to coordinate positive behavior intervention supports, family and civic engagement services, learning environments, thinking and learning systems, collaborative planning, planning time, student academic interventions, student extended learning opportunities, and other activities identified by the team and approved by the district board of education. Provides that the team must include the building principal, representatives from each collective bargaining unit, the building lead teacher, parents, business representatives and others that support student success.
Eliminates requirement that state board develop a state plan for technology to encourage the use of technology in educational settings.
DOE summary document: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Bill text (pages 979-984 of 3120): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | 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 and work ready assessments as created by 3301.0712 (as created in 2009 H.B. 1). Eliminates requirement that EMIS report the percentage of students receiving corporal punishment. Replaces "master teacher" with "lead teacher" in requirement that EMIS report on the number of such teachers in each district and building.
Pages 1003-1013 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0714
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | 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. Requires the state board, within a year of adoption of rules for implementation of the new assessment system for high school graduation and once every six years thereafter, to establish new performance indicators for district and school report cards, based on recommendation of the state superintendent. By December 31, 2011, requires the state board, upon recommendation of the state superintendent, to establish a performance indicator reflecting the level of services provided to, and the performance of, students identified as gifted.
Pages 1046-1047 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3302.01 and 3302.02
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | 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 technology.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/ACT/Pa/pdf/2009PA-00143-R00SB-00940-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 940
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov/
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | 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 district must comply with each requirement. Directs the state education agency to determine the manner in which the schedule is made readily accessible to school districts. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03041F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3041
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | 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 public institutions of higher education. Provides the portal must allow:
(1) Students and parents to easily access the student's individual assessment data. The system must allow students and parents to track a student's progress on assessment requirements for graduation.
(2) Authorized district employees, including teachers, to readily access individual assessment data of district students
(3) Authorized employees of public postsecondary institutions to readily access individual assessment data of students applying for admission for use in developing strategies for improving student performance
(4) Public access to general student assessment data.
Requires student assessment data in the portal to be available by the first instructional day of the school year following that in which the data is collected, and to include student performance data on assessment
instruments over multiple years, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, including any data indicating progress in student achievement. Specifies the system must permit comparisons of student performance information at the classroom, campus, district and state levels.
Pages 42-45 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 48 and 49
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | 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 review these indicators for possible revisions every other year. Provides performance on such adopted indicators must be evaluated in the same manner provided for evaluation of the student achievement indicators under Section 39.053(c). Requires indicators to include:
(1) Percentage of high school graduates who complete the minimum, recommended or advanced high school programs
(2) Results of the SAT, ACT, articulated postsecondary degree programs described by Section 61.852, and certified workforce training programs described by Chapter 311, Labor Code
(3) Subsequent state assessment scores of students who do not meet performance standards as established by Section 39.0241 or who do not pass state-level assessments
(4) Number of students at each campus who choose to complete the minimum high school program, disaggregated by major student subpopulations
(5) Specified remediation and student promotion indicators
(6) Percentage of limited English-proficient students exempted from the administration of an assessment instrument under Sections 39.027(a)(1) and (2)
(7) Percentage of students with disabilities assessed through assessment instruments developed or adopted under Section 39.023(b)
(8) Percentage of students who satisfy the college readiness measure
(9) Progress toward dual language proficiency under Section 39.034(b) for limited English-proficient students
(10) Percentage of students who are not educationally disadvantaged
(11) Percentage of students who enter an institute of higher education the year after high school graduation
(12) Percentage of students who complete the first year of postsecondary education without needing a developmental education course.
Specifies that performance on the indicators described by Section 39.053(c) and items (3), (4) and (9) above must be based on longitudinal student data that is disaggregated by the bilingual education or special language program that current or former limited English-proficient students are/were enrolled in.
Adds Section 39.302, which directs the state education agency to report to each district the comparisons of student performance made under Section 39.034 (annual improvement needed for a student to perform satisfactorily on grade 5 and 8 assessments and end-of-course assessments, page 67 of 180 of 2009 H.B. 3). Adds Section 39.303, which requires districts to provide each student's parent with a record of the comparisons made under Sections 39.302 and 39.034. Provides that for a student who did not perform satisfactorily on a state assessment, the district must include specific information in the notice about access to online educational resources at the appropriate assessment instrument content level, including educational resources described by Section 32.252(b)(2) and assessment instrument questions and answers released under Section 39.023(e).
Adds Section 39.304, which requires districts to provide teachers at the beginning of the school year with a record of the comparisons made under Sections 39.302 and 39.034. Requires report to go to each teacher for all students, including incoming students, who were assessed on a grades 3-8 assessment or high school end-of-course exam, and all students who took a grades 3-8 assessment or high school end-of-course exam the previous year. Provides the report must indicate whether the student performed satisfactorily or, if the student did not perform satisfactorily, whether the student met the standard for annual improvement.
Amends campus report card content. Repeals provision requiring campus performance to be compared to comparable campus group performance. Requires campus report cards to include the student achievement
indicators described by Section 39.053(c) and the reporting indicators described by Sections 39.301(c)(1) through (5). Requires district report cards to include information indicating the district's accreditation status and identifying each district campus awarded a distinction designation under Subchapter G or considered an unacceptable campus under Subchapter E
Pages 137-142 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part VIII (Parent and Educator Reports, Campus and District Report Cards)
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | 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 report that includes the information reported for traditional public schools, regardless of the location of the charter school. Requires such a school board to administer the state assessments to students in grades 4, 7, and 10 to students in the charter school. Requires such a charter school to be located either within the school district or within the boundaries of the tribe's or band's reservation. Requires the school board to determine whether the charter school is an instrumentality of the school district, regardless of the location of the charter school.
Page 468, 470, 471 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| CO | Adopted 05/2009 | P-12 | 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&agencyName=301%20Colorado%20State%20Board%20of%20Education&ccrDocID=2866&ccrDocName=1%20CCR%20301-67%20ADMINISTRATION%20OF%20COLORADO%20DATA%20REPORTING%20FOR%20SCHOOL%20ACCREDITATION
Title: 1 CCR 301-67
Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us/
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | 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 student academic growth. Requires school districts to annually determine whether schools meet federal expectations for student achievement. Requires the state's educational assessment system to measure individual students' educational growth. Directs the commissioner to annually report to the public and the legislature, beginning June 30, 2012, the organizational and curricular practices implemented by schools that demonstrate medium and high student growth.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| OK | Adopted 05/2009 | P-12 | 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.
Title: OAC 210:35-25-4
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Adopted 05/2009 | P-12 | 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 dropout report.
Title: OAC 210:35-25-3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | 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 beginning in the 2010-11 school year and subsequent years.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB0293.pdf
Title: S.B. 293
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | 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 districts and schools of complying with the proposed requirements; requires the committee to publish a written report listing data reporting requirements that are not cost-effective or that are duplicative; makes related changes.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/DC92B80DFED82CF48725754C000D957D?open&file=1214_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1214
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | 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 in core content areas). Deletes the requirement that diagnostic assessment results be reported to parents when students are performing below expected levels. Adds a provision that an area education agency director, officer, or teacher cannot act as an agent for textbook or athletic or similar sales in the local district or areas districts. Requires hearing dates and times for the school budget review committee located within the departmetn of education to be posted on the state departement Web site.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF687
Title: H.B. 687
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | 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 accountability for targeting resources to improve elementary and middle schools most in need, and for recognizing elementary and middle schools that make the greatest progress in increasing student academic performance.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/SB0156.pdf
Title: S.B. 156
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | 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.
Requires the state board, after adopting revised academic standards by December 15, 2010 and a revised assessment system for use in the 2011-12 school year, to adopt rules establishing a new accountability system based on the revised standards and assessments. Requires the accountability system to include the results of program assessments of arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies and writing programs as specified in revised KRS 158.6453 (7)((a) - (c) (revised by 2009 S.B. 1). Directs the state board, before adopting rules relating to the new accountability system, to seek advice from the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council; the Office of Education Accountability; the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee; and the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability. Repeals requirement that student be counted for accountability purposes if the student has been enrolled in the school 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period; replaces with requirement that student be enrolled in a school for at least a full academic year to be counted for accountability purposes. Repeals provisions relating to procedures for school audits.
Repeals provision requiring the department to report quarterly to the interim joint committee on education on (1) information about the estimated error of the accountability index, as well as information about the connections between index score changes and estimated changes in student performance levels and (2) the annual audit of portfolio scores in ways that serve to minimize the differences between teacher-produced scores and audit-generated scores.
Effective with the 2012-13 school year, requires state assessment results to be reported to schools no later than 75 days following the first day the assessment can be administered. Requires local targets for closing the achievement gap and school improvement plans to address those targets to be reported annually by October 1 (former provisions required adoption mid/late school year every other year). Directs the local superintendent to report to the commissioner of education if a school fails to meet its targets to reduce the gap in student achievement for any student group for 2 consecutive years (former provision required reporting after two successive biennia).
Pages 24-31 and 32-35 of 76: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 4, 5 and 7
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | 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-secondary education institutions to improve instruction, student preparation and advisement.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/SB0152.pdf
Title: S.B. 152
Source: http://nmlegis.gov
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| KY | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | 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 and district report cards, including existing reports, participation, and performance in Advanced Placement courses, the issuance of commonwealth diplomas, participation in gifted and talented programs and participation in special education with instructional and testing accommodations, all disaggregated to the extent permitted under KRS 160.700-160.730, which protects the confidentiality of an individual student's educational records. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/140reg.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:140
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| NY | Adopted 06/2008 | P-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. Pages 6-11 of 27: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/mar5/pdfs/rules.pdf
Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | 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 "improvement" to "growth." Requires the statewide assessment program to specifically include English/language arts, mathematics, science and social studies (referred to earlier as "the four academic areas") and to be administered in 2009. Sets and defines student performance levels of "Not Met, Met and Exemplary." Allows publication of the annual report card to be delayed until no later than February 2010. Describes required components of report cards. Requires the state board to create a statewide adoption list of formative assessments for grades 1-9 aligned with state standards in English/language arts and mathematics -- for use beginning in the 2009-2010 school year. Revises other features of assessment and accreditation. d; provide for a designation to signify varying levels of school academic performance; revises provisions regarding education accountability; provides that the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test does not meet certain requirements; provides for use of the monetary savings from revised inspection provisions. http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html or
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4662_20080529.doc
Title: H.B. 4662
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | 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 and Title 49.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB3321.pdf
Title: H.B. 3321
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | 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://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0404
Title: S.B. 376
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | 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 on programs to assist students with disabilities.
Also, when reporting results on the Washington assessment of student learning (WASL), the office of the superintendent must provide results that are disaggregated by at least: White, Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Pacific Islander/Hawaiian Native, low income, transitional bilingual, migrant and special education.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202008/3212-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 3212
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature
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| NY | Adopted 01/2008 | P-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 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations. The rule is necessary to implement the Education Law section 211-d to establish 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.
Pages 9- of 33: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/feb6/pdfs/rules.pdf
Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Source: www.dos.state.ny.us
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| NY | Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 | P-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/dec12/pdfs/rules.pdf
Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | 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 and leadership, classroom discipline and climate for learning, the availability of qualified substitute teachers, the degree to which pupils are prepared to enter the workforce, and whether the school qualifies for the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires the state department of education, the legislature and the governor to report on the feasibility of combining elements, linking reporting of elements in other locations or otherwise improving the usability and readability of the SARC.Requires the department of education to include on the standardized template for the SARC the URLs for the department's Dataquest site, the Univ. of California president's and a statement concerning the availability of Internet access at public libraries and other public locations. No less than triennially, each school district is to compare the content of the SARC of the school district to the model SARC adopted by the state. Chapter 530
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1051-1100/ab_1061_bill_20071012_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1061
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NY | Adopted 07/2007 | P-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. Pages 16-19 of 48: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/aug15/pdfs/rules.pdf
Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | 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 Oregon Report Card shall include information on the following:
(a) Student performance on Oregon state assessments and national assessments;
(b) Data required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110, 115 Stat.1425);
(c) Public school funding, expenditures and employee salary information;
(d) Instructional hours;
(e) School staff information;
(f) District size, student demographics and student enrollment;
(g) Dropout rates;
(h) Alternative education programs;
(i) Public charter schools;
(j) Early childhood education and Oregon prekindergarten; and
(k) Programs for students with special needs.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2200.dir/hb2263.c.pdf
Title: H.B. 2263C, Section 9
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | 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 corrective action. Revises provisions governing the factors for consideration by the Commission in awarding grants of money from the Account. Requires the Commission to conduct an assessment of the needs of each school district relating to educational technology during the spring semester of each even-numbered school year for submission to the Legislative Committee on Education and the Legislature.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/SB/SB184_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 184
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | 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 school by determining the average scale scores for each student for the current year as compared to the previous year. Establishes that the State Department of Education and the Superintendent may develop a classification label for school districts and charter school operators based on the following four components: 1) Measures of academic progress; 2) pupil assessment data; 3) attendance rates and graduation rates of pupils who are educator in that charter school operator's charter school or in that school district's schools; 4) percentage of parents of pupils enrolled in that charter school or school district that categorizes the quality of their child's education as excellent on a parental rating of school quality. (Chapter No. 200)
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/48leg/1r/summary/h.sb1522_05-09-07.doc.htm
Title: S.B. 1522
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | 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/fsbillcont3/DA90BC5DA6E1E7E58725727D005C73E7?open&file=1345_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1345
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 274 (Accountability Provisions)
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | 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 provisions which may involve revocation or suspension of ones license and mandated professional development; requires annual reports related to school district performance; relates to school improvement programs; relates to employment screening. Act No. 1573.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB274.pdf
Title: S.B. 274
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | 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 receive a parallel achievement profile from the Department of Education. The profile shall be used to determine a school classification that designates each school as one of the following: a) an excelling school; b) a highly performing school; c) a performing school; d) an underperforming school; or e) a school failing to meet academic standards. Profile is based on state assessment tests. Grades 9-12 profiles consists of the test results, annual dropout rate, annual graduation rate and results of the English language learners tests.
http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2039
Title: H.B. 2039
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Provides that by July 1, 2008, a student progress report must be prepared for all students. States that the progress report must provide parents with information on their child's performance on state assessments over multiple years of testing, and must also explain the process by which parents may inquire further about their child's progress. Requires all districts and charter schools to prepare and disseminate the student progress report to parents in a timely manner.
Directs the commissioner to develop methods to support educators in the use of performance data to assist in student learning, which must be periodically improved based on feedback from educators. Also directs the commissioner to develop informational materials to help parents and teachers understand the regents learning standards and the results of state assessments.
Directs the commissioner to develop a school leadership report card and a separate school progress report card to assist boards of education, the state and the public in assessing the performance of school leaders, including superintendents and principals, and the schools they lead. Provides the report cards must include an assessment of the school's progress in achieving standards of excellence, including parent involvement, curriculum, teacher quality, and accountability measures. Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations requiring trustees or boards of education to attach copies of such report cards to the statement of estimated expenditures, and to otherwise make the report cards publicly available in the same manner as a district report card.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02107&sh=t
Title: S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 2
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-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 foundation aid compared to the base year in an amount that equals or exceeds either $15 million or 10% of the amount received in the base year, whichever is less, or receives a supplemental educational improvement plan grant. Provides that in the 2007-2008 school year, the increase must be the amount of the difference between total foundation aid received for the current year and the total foundation aid base. Provides that in New York City, a contract for excellence must be prepared for the city school district and for each community district that meets the above criteria.
Requires each contract for excellence to describe how the sum of amounts apportioned to the district in the current year, in total foundation aid and supplemental educational improvement plan grants, in excess of 103% of the district's foundation base, will be used to support new programs/activities or expand the use of programs/activities demonstrated to improve student achievement. Requires each contract for excellence to state, for all funding sources (federal/state/local), the instructional expenditures per pupil, the special education expenditures per pupil, and the total expenditures per pupil, projected for the current year and actually incurred in the base year. Provides each contract for excellence is subject to approval by the commissioner and his/her certification that the expenditure of additional aid or grant amounts is in accordance with these provisions. Provides the school district audit report certified to the commissioner by an independent certified public accountant, an independent accountant or the comptroller of the city of New York must include a certification by such accountant or comptroller and that the increases in total foundation aid and supplemental educational improvement plan grants have been used to supplement and not supplant funds allocated by the district in the base year for such purposes.
Requires the contract to specify the new or expanded programs for which additional foundation aid or grants will be used, and to affirm that such programs will predominately benefit students with the greatest educational needs, including limited English proficient students, students in poverty and students with disabilities.
Requires the contract in New York City to also include a plan to reduce average class sizes within five years. Provides the plan must also include class size reduction for low-performing and overcrowded schools and include the methods to be used to achieve such class sizes, such as the creation or construction of more classrooms and buildings, the placement of more than one teacher in a classroom, or other means.
Directs the commissioner to adopt regulations establishing allowable programs and activities to improve student achievement; directs that these are limited to class size reduction, programs that increase student time on task, teacher and principal quality initiatives, middle and high school restructuring, and full-day kindergarten or prekindergarten. Authorizes districts to use up to 15% of the additional funding they receive for experimental programs to demonstrate the efficacy of other strategies to improve student achievement. Provides that in the 2007-2008 school year, up to$30 million or 25% of such additional funding, whichever is less, may be used to maintain investments in commissioner-approved and other programs and activities to improve student achievement.
Directs the commissioner to assist districts that include in their contract for excellence the implementation of incentives, developed in collaboration with teachers in the collective bargaining process, for highly qualified and experienced teachers to work in low-performing schools, to ensure that such incentives are effective.
Requires a district contract for excellence developed in the 2008-2009 school year and thereafter to be developed through a public process, in consultation with parents, teachers, administrators, and any appointed distinguished educator. Requires this process to include at least one public hearing; requires this process in New York City to be held within each county of the city. Requires each community district contract for excellence in New York City to be consistent with the citywide contract for excellence, and to be submitted by the community superintendent to the community district education council for review and comment at a public meeting.
Requires the trustees or board of education, or New York City comptroller, of each district with a contract for excellence to assure that procedures are in place for parents to bring complaints concerning implementation of the district's contract for excellence.
Directs districts subject to contract for excellence provisions to publicly report the expenditure of total foundation aid in the form and manner prescribed by the commissioner, which must ensure full disclosure of such funds.
Directs the department to develop a methodology for all districts subject to contract for excellence provisions to report school-based expenditures.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02107&sh=t
Title: S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 12
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | 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 at a school by the total number of licensed classroom teachers in that grade at the school; and an adult-student ratio shall be calculated by dividing the total number of students in a grade at a school by the total number of adults who work with students in an instructional setting in that grade at the school. For reporting purposes, average class size by grade and subject is to be calculated in accordance with the following: (A) for kindergarten through grade six, average class size by grade shall be calculated by dividing grade membership on October 1 by the number of classes in the corresponding grade; and (B) for grades seven through twelve, average class size shall be calculated for core language arts, mathematics, and science courses by dividing membership on October 1 in core language arts, mathematics, or science course classes by the number of classes for the corresponding course.
http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0215.htm
Title: H.B. 215
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | 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
Title: A.B. 3676
Source: New Jersey Legislature
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2006 | P-12 | 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 districts to make certain related determinations, and to notify school districts of certain related information. Requires the notification be made using electronic methods.
Title: A.B. 680
Source: California Legislature
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2006 | P-12 | 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 the workforce, and whether the school qualifies for the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires each school district to make it most recent report care available through the Internet or hard copies by a specified date each year.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1510_bill_20060831_enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 1510
Source: California Legislature
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2006 | P-12 | 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 ethnicity, English learner status, and other information as may be determined to be necessary to understanding the meaning and consequences of the failure to pass the high school exit examination.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1551-1600/sb_1592_bill_20060825_enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 1592
Source: California Legislature
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| DE | Adopted 07/2006 | P-12 | 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 school or program. Requires schools to use thehighest test scores a student receives in the AYP calculation when the studentis tested a second time as part of the state mandated summer school program. Allows for the composite score for the State Progress Determination to be a two year average or current year, whichever is higher. DELAWARE 1856
http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/100/103.shtml#TopOfPage
Title: 14 DAC 103
Source: Delaware Regulations
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | 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 received by the school district, enrollment and employment figures, and additional information.
Requires the financial report to contain, at a minimum, information on:
a. All property tax levies, income surtaxes, and local option sales taxes in place in the school district, listed by type of levy, rate, amount, duration, and notification of the maximum rate and amount limitations permitted by statute.
b. The amount of funding received on a per pupil basis through the operation of the school finance formula, and from any other state appropriation or state funding source.
c. Federal funding received per student or teacher population targeted to receive the funds, and any other federal grants or funding received by the district.
d. Teacher and administrator minimum, maximum, and average salary paid by the district, and the percentage and dollar increase under teacher and administrator salary and benefits settlement agreements.
e. Teacher and administrator health insurance and other alternative health benefit information, including the monthly premium, the percentage of the premium paid by the district, and the percentage of the premium paid by a teacher or administrator for single and family insurance.
f. Teacher and administrator employment statistics, including the annual number of licensed full-time and part-time teachers and administrators employed by the school district during the preceding five years, and including the number of teachers and administrators no longer employed by the district, and new hires.
g. Student enrollment levels during the preceding five years, including regular enrollment, special education enrollment, and enrollment adjustments made pursuant to supplementary weighting.
h. Such additional information as the school district may determine.
Requires copies of a district's financial report for the previous school year to be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the school district must either distribute or post written copies of the financial report at specified locations throughout the school district.
Provides that, prior to certifying any levy by board approval, or submitting a levy for voter approval, local boards must facilitate public access to a complete listing of all outstanding levies within the school district by rate, amount, duration, and the applicable maximum levy limitations. Requires that the information on outstanding levies be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year, and updated prior to board approval or submission for voter approval of any levy during the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the district must either distribute or post written copies of the listing at specified locations throughout the district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 14-15
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| KY | Adopted 06/2006 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding the standards for a school and district report card. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/140.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:140
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Vetoed 05/2006 | P-12 | 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.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/7F98372AFBE9CA56872570C7006E5546?Open&file=069_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 69
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | 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.This legislation requires school reports to add a school's grade, high school graduation rate calculated without GED tests, disaggregated by student ethnicity, category and performance data as specified in state board rule.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | 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 and reading. (c) Longitudinal performance regarding efforts to close the achievement gap. (d) Longitudinal performance of students on the norm-referenced component of the FCAT. (e) Other student performance data based on national norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests, when available, and numbers of students who after 8th grade enroll in adult education rather than other secondary education. 244
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | 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. The report card shall include the school's grade, information regarding school improvement, an explanation
of school performance as evaluated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and indicators of return on investment.
Each school's report card mustl be published annually by the department on its website, and the school district must provide the school report card to each parent.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 46)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 |
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" means schools with students making more academic progress than when the students were served in their home schools. (b) "Maintaining" means schools with students making progress equivalent to the progress made when the students were served in their home schools. (c) "Declining" means schools with students making less academic progress than when the students were served in their home schools.
The school-improvement rating will be based on a comparison of student performance data for the current year and previous year. Schools that improve at least one level or maintain an "improving" rating pursuant to this section are eligible for school recognition awards.
Student Learning Gains
For each alternative school receiving a school-improvement rating, the Department of Education will annually identify the percentage of students making learning gains as compared to the percentage of the same students making learning gains in their home schools in the year prior to being assigned to the alternative school.
School Report Cartds
The Department of Education will annually develop, in collaboration with the school districts, a school report card for alternative schools to be delivered to parents throughout each school district. The report card will include the school-improvement rating, identification of student
learning gains, student attendance data, information regarding school improvement, an explanation of school performance as evaluated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and indicators of return on investment.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 47)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | 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, except an alternative school that receives a school-improvement rating pursuant to s. 1008.341, will receive a school grade; however, an alternative school may choose to receive a school grade under this section in lieu of a school-improvement rating. Additionally, a school that serves any combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 which does not receive a school grade because its students are not tested and included in the school grading system will receive the school grade designation of a K-3 feeder pattern school identified by the Department of Education and verified by the school district. A school feeder pattern exists if at least 60 percent of the students in the school serving a combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 are scheduled to be assigned to the graded school.
A school's grade will be based on a combination of: 1. Student achievement scores, including achievement scores for students seeking a special diploma. 2. Student learning gains as measured by annual FCAT assessments in grades 3 through 10; learning gains for students seeking a special diploma, as measured by an alternate assessment tool, must be included not later than the 2009-2010 school year. 3. Improvement of the lowest 25th percentile of students in the school in reading, math, or writing on the FCAT, unless these students are exhibiting satisfactory performance.
Effective with the 2005-2006 school year, the achievement scores and learning gains of eligible students attending alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services will be used to determine the home school's grade. If an alternative school chooses to be graded pursuant to this section, student performance data for eligible students will not be included in the home school's grade but will be included only in the calculation of the alternative school's grade. School districts must require collaboration between the home school and the alternative school in order to promote student success.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 45)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12
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Community College | 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 shall, as determined by the commissioner, be integrated into the K-20 data warehouse. The commissioner will have unlimited access to such data solely for the purposes of conducting studies, reporting annual and longitudinal student outcomes, and improving college readiness 2823
and articulation. All public educational institutions must provide data to the K-20 data warehouse in a format specified by the commissioner.
School districts and public postsecondary educational institutions shall maintain information systems that will provide the State Board of Education, the Board of Governors of the State University System, and the Legislature with information and reports necessary to address the specifications of the accountability system.
The Commissioner of Education will determine the standards for the required data, monitor data quality, and measure improvements. The commissioner shall report annually to the State Board of Education, the Board of Governors of the State University System, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives data quality indicators and ratings for all school districts and public postsecondaryeducational institutions.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 44)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | 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 schools in the state based on the school's academic gains according to measures selected by the department of education.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/sb1270s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1270
Source: Arizona Legislature
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12
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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 science in grade 10;
3. The ACT college admissions and placement examination to assess English, reading, math and science, to be taken by all students in grade 11; and
4. Any other component necessary to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
These assessments are to be administered in lieu of a customized or commercially available norm-referenced test.
Provides that a student whose scores on the grade 8 high school readiness exam indicate a high degree of readiness for high school must be counseled to enroll in accelerated courses. Provides that a student whose scores on the grade 10 college readiness exam or grade 11 ACT indicate a high degree of readiness for college must be counseled to enroll in accelerated courses, with an emphasis on Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
Specifies that the department will pay for the initial ACT exam, but that the student must pay for additional ACT exams.
Provides that students in grades 10, 11 and 12, by the 2007-2008 school year, may take the WorkKeys assessments in reading for information, locating information, and applied mathematics, with the cost of the initial assessment paid by the department of education. Provides that a student whose scores on the WorkKeys assessments indicate that additional assistance is required in reading for information, locating information, or applied mathematics must have intervention strategies for accelerated learning incorporated into his or her learning plan. Provides that a student meeting the WorkKeys threshold established by the Cabinet for Workforce Development must be issued the appropriate Kentucky employability certificate.
Provides that the high school readiness assessment in grade 8, the college readiness assessments in grades 10 and 11, and the WorkKeys assessments are to be collectively known as the "Kentucky Work and College Readiness Examination" or "Readiness Examination."
Directs the department of education to conduct periodic studies comparing the standards in reading, mathematics, and science for middle and high school within the Kentucky core content for assessment and the concepts and content measured by the ACT and the high school and college readiness examinations. Provides that if the department determines that if the grade 8 high school readiness and grades 10 and 11 college readiness exams in reading, math and science are shown to provide direct measures of content standards and concepts identified in the Kentucky core content for assessment, the state board must seek the advice of the Office of Education Accountability, the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council, and the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability regarding reducing the number of questions on the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System. Directs the department to continue to include open-response or multiple-choice items, or both, that assess student knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics, and science to the degree necessary for adequate coverage of the elements of the Kentucky core content for assessment not covered by the examinations.
Specifies the types of accommodations to be provided a student with a disability taking the ACT.
Requires the reporting system to include:
(1) An individual student report to parents for each 5th grade student summarizing the student's readiness in reading and math based on the student's 4th grade state assessment results. The school's 5th grade staff must develop a plan for accelerated learning for any student with identified deficiencies;
(2) An individual report for each student who takes a high school or college readiness exam that:
1. Provides the student's test scores;
2. Provides a judgment regarding whether or not a student has met or failed to meet the expectations for each standard assessed; and
3. Is designed to assist students, parents, and teachers to identify, assess, and remedy academic deficiencies prior to high school graduation; and
(3) A student's scores on the ACT examination or WorkKeys assessments. Requires scores from the state-sponsored ACT exam to be recorded on the student's official high school transcript.
Section 2:
Mandates that a high school student whose scores on the grade 8 high school readiness exam, on the grade 10 college readiness exam, or on the WorkKeys indicate that additional assistance is required in English, reading, or math must have intervention strategies for accelerated learning incorporated into his or her learning plan. Mandates that a high school student whose score on the state-administered ACT exam in English, reading, or math is below the system-wide standard established by the Council on Postsecondary Education for entry into a credit-bearing course at a public postsecondary institution without placement in a remedial course or an entry-level course with supplementary academic support must be provided the opportunity to participate in accelerated learning designed to address his or her identified academic deficiencies prior to high school graduation.
Requires a high school, in collaboration with its school district, to develop and implement accelerated learning that:
(a) Allows a student's learning plan to be individualized to meet the student's academic needs based on an assessment of test results and consultation among parents, teachers, and the student; and
(b) May include changes in a student's class schedule.
Directs the department of education, the council on postsecondary education, and public postsecondary institutions to offer support and technical assistance to schools and school districts in the development of accelerated learning. Provides that a student who participates in accelerated learning due to inadequate scores on the grade 8 high school readiness exam, the grade 10 college readiness exam, the WorkKeys or the ACT must be allowed to take the ACT exam a second time prior to high school graduation at the expense of the Kentucky Department of Education. The cost of any subsequent administrations of the achievement test shall be the responsibility of the student.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB130/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 130
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 2206
Source: Massachusetts Legislature
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | 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 out of school, including the reasons for dropping out.
--The number of student work permits revoked.
--The number of student driver's licenses revoked.
--The number of students who have not advanced to grade 10 due to a lack of completed credits.
--The number of students suspended for any reason.
--The number of students receiving an international baccalaureate diploma.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 7
Source: www.in.gov/legislative
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | 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 system of accounting used by school corporations and schools on June 30, 2006, and a unified income and expense statement and balance sheet;
(2) Provide school corporations and schools the ability to track expenditures individually and according to the expenditure category the program under which the expense was incurred, and the school building where the expense was incurred;
(3) Provide real time or other timely access to expenditures, and across functions, schools, and school corporations; and
(4) Enable periodic and annual analysis and reporting to the leadership of a school, the superintendent and governing body of a school corporation, the general public, the department, the state board, the governor, and the general assembly.
Directs the department and the state board to submit the plan to the governor and the general assembly by October 1, 2006.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/HE/HE1006.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1006 - Section 4
Source: www.in.gov
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| WI | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | 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 take home. The SPR contains information, by school and by school district, on items such as: academic achievement, including scores on statewide pupil assessment examinations; various indicators of school and school district performance, including attendance data and suspension and expulsion data; certain staffing and financial data; information about use of the open enrollment program; and the method of reading instruction. The SPR also includes a comparison of the school district's performance on academic achievement and certain other indicators of performance with the performance of other school districts in the same athletic conference. 2005 Wisconsin Act 62 does the following:
• Requires that each school board distribute or send home the SPR only upon request; provides that annually, by January 1, each school board must notify the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled of the right to request the SPR.
• Requires that, if requested, the SPR be distributed or sent home annually by May 1.
• Provides that if the school district maintains an Internet site, the SPR must be made available to the public on that site.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/lc_act/act062-ab425.pdf
Title: A.B. 425
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | 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 requirements for the assessment of estimated expenditures per pupil, and would require that assessment of estimated expenditures per pupil include salaries of personnel at the schoolsite.
Title: S.B. 687
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 09/2005 | P-12 | 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 2005 Accountability Manual, specify the indicators, standards, and procedures used by the commissioner of education to determine accountability ratings, both standard and alternative education accountability (AEA), for districts, campuses, and charter schools. These chapters also specify indicators, standards, and procedures used to determine Gold Performance Acknowledgment (GPA) on additional indicators for Texas public school districts and campuses. Also specified in Chapters 2-6, 9, 11-13, 16, and 17 of the 2005 Accountability Manual are procedures for submitting an appeal. The TEA will issue accountability ratings under the procedures specified in the 2005 Accountability Manual in August 2005. Ratings may be revised as a result of investigative activities by the commissioner as authorized under TEC, §39.074 and §39.075. The title of §97.1001 would also change from "Annual Accountability Standards" to "Accountability Rating System."
In 2005, campuses and districts will be evaluated using four base indicators: Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) results, completion rates, annual dropout rates, and student performance on the State Developed Alternative Assessment (SDAA) II. In 2005, the GPA system will award acknowledgment on 13 separate indicators to districts and campuses rated Academically Acceptable or higher: Attendance Rate for Grades 1-12; Advanced Academic Course Completion; Advanced Placement/ International Baccalaureate Examination Results; College Admissions Test Results; Commended Performance on Reading/English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, Writing, Science and/or Social Studies; TAAS/TASP Equivalency; Recommended High School Program Participation; and Comparable Improvement on Reading/ELA and Mathematics.Amends rules concerning institutional reports. Accommodates the accountability system reports that will be presented to the Board at its January meeting. Changes the submission date to November 15.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/commissioner/proposed/0805/97-1001a-ltrprop.html
Title: 19 TAC 1.17.K.17.101
Source: http://www.tea.state.tx.us
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | 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 agencies by: (1) Referring to the department's Data Resource Guide prior to collecting data in order to determine if the data sought is already collected. (2) Utilizing the preferred variation for data elements referenced in the department's common data architecture. (3) Allowing data collection to occur within windows specified by the state superintendent. (c) Providing sufficient lead time for local educational agencies and the department to collect new data elements within existing collection procedures.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_110_bill_20050718_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 110 -- Reporting Section
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| KS | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | 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), reimposes correlation weighting, and establishes a Local Activities Budget of 2 percent of the school district general fund budget. The bill appropriates
funding totaling $119,000,000 in FY 2006 and $20,000,000 in FY 2007 for various state aid programs. The bill funds the Skills for Success
Program in FY 2007, and makes other policy changes, including, for example: School District Budget Deadline – For the 2005-06 school year
only, the school district budget deadline for filing the budget with county clerks would be delayed from August 25 to September 7. For the 2005-06 school year only, the cap on the school district contingency fund would be increased from 4 percent to 6 percent of the school district's general fund budget. Requires that at least 65 percent of the moneys appropriated, distributed, or otherwise provided by the state to school districts would be expended in the classroom or used for instructional purposes as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics. School District Administrative Reorganization Plan – Requires the state board to design an administrative reorganization plan for all
school districts. Provides that no money from a school district's general fund can be spent for attorney fees or other costs in support of litigation against the State of Kansas or any state officer, official, agent, or agency. No money from a school district's general fund can be used by a district for lobbying. Computer Reporting System – Adds a provision that the Kansas Department of Education is to have the new computer reporting system required by 2005 HB 2247 in use by December 31, 2005. Teacher Bonuses – Allows the preschool at-risk, atrisk,
bilingual, and vocational education funds to carry forward balances or be used for teacher bonuses when the teachers' efforts resulted in achievement of mastery of basic reading skills based on State Board guidelines (preschool at-risk and at-risk funds); in achievement of English for ESL students.
http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2005special/SN0003.pdf
Title: S.B. 3
Source: http://www.kslegislature.org
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | 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. Requires the committee, on its own or by written request of a district, board of cooperative services or the state charter school institute, to review these entities' reporting requirements to determine whether the costs of such requirements outweigh the benefits. Authorizes the committee to make recommendations to the state board on repealing or amending statutory and regulatory reporting requirements and requires the state board to forward all recommendations on alterations to statutory reporting requirements to the general assembly. Requires the committee to review each data reporting request not required by statute or rule and notify districts, boards of cooperative services and the state charter school institute whether compliance with the request is mandatory or voluntary.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/DC1884F5438814D187256F6B0076EE38?Open&file=019_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 19
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | 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 auditing firm to annually audit the process of preparing the accountability reports. Makes appropriation.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E3E46C5DD449721587256F8D0053612C?Open&file=1217_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1217
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | 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 department to work with each district and the state charter school institute to determine whether a school's report will be printed in Spanish and the number of reports to be printed in Spanish for each selected public school.
Section 6: Requires state acceditation process to be based on individual student improvement (in addition to student achievement), both in the subjects tested in the state assessment system (reading, writing, math and science) and in subjects for which there are state model content standards but no statewide assessment.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/489B14D223FBDD2087256F5D006BE665?open&file=214_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 214 (Section 4-6)
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | 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 expands the school designations that may be appealed. This bill also makes changes to the proficiency exam requirements, including the grade levels for administering the writing and science proficiency exams. Under existing law, fees collected pursuant to the Private Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization Act are deposited in the State General Fund. This bill requires those fees to be deposited in the appropriate account of the Department of Education.
http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/AB/AB154_EN.pdf
Title: H.B. 154
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | 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 unacceptable." Although these ratings are meant to provide information about the quality and performance of public schools, many people are unaware they exist. This information is important to Texas families seeking a superior education for their children. House Bill 3297 requires a school district to distribute the latest performance rating of each school campus with a student's first grade report. It also requires a school district that maintains an Internet website, to make available to the public information contained in the most recent campus report cards and district performance report with a definition and explanation of that information. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=03297&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 3297
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | 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 board or state department of education. Subject to the availability of funding, authorizes the state board to retain a consultant or expert to complete the study. The study is to include the feasibility of coordinating reporting dates and must identify all requirements for maintaining, completing and filing records and reports mandated by law or rule and make recommendations for any amendments that may be necessary to implement the recommendations. Research for the study must provide for the input and participation of school districts and school district personnel. Requires (by December 31, 2005) the state board to issue a preliminary report of any findings and recommendations collected prior to that date. Upon the availability of funding, the board is to complete the findings and recommendations of the study and file a final report with the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1444_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1444
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | 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 utilization of certain system model; requires model to include certain capabilities; creates the Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Coordinating Committee.The purpose of the Pilot Program is to provide for the development and implementation of a horizontal school district and school site level student data management and reporting system based on the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) industry open-standard. The developed student data management and reporting system is required to provide horizontal articulation of student academic data, student demographic data and other relevant student information. Horizontal articulation must assimilate the data from the classroom level, to the school site level, and to the district level, with the capability to analyze and disseminate the data back to the school site and classroom level when required by teachers and administrators to support informed and improved classroom instruction. The Pilot Program must incorporate the following objectives:
1. Provide for academic performance reporting at the district level for all students in grade levels five, eight, ten and twelve. Academic performance reporting shall include report card grades, student performance results from multiple standardized assessments, including at least one norm-referenced assessment, state testing program results for grade levels five, eight, and End-of-Instruction assessments, and ACT college entrance examination scores when applicable;
2. Provide for a horizontal data aggregation system at the school district and site level that facilitates storage, retrieval and distribution of data both horizontally, at the school district and site levels, and vertically to the Wave Program, including all necessary student data elements to support academic performance reporting;
3. Provide for a reporting structure at the district level that shall address all state and federal reporting requirements, including those specified in the federal act known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and data elements used in determining district and site performance levels for the Academic Performance Index. The district level reporting structure shall also provide for the transfer of aggregated school district and site level data in Extensible Markup Language (XML), an industry open-standard data format, to both state and federal agencies if required by the agencies in an aggregated format;
4. Develop, define and implement necessary data elements and codes to meet reporting requirements to support horizontal articulation of data at the district and site level and to provide effective transfer of data for state and federal reporting. Provided, that if SIF or the State Board of Education has not defined data elements and codes necessary for the development of the student data management and reporting system, the participating pilot program school districts may create the necessary data elements and codes to support horizontal articulation of data at district and site levels and to provide effective transfer of data for state and federal reporting requirements. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the State Board of Education from defining data elements and codes not defined in the SIF specifications for the Wave Program and from requiring all school districts, including the pilot program school districts, to use the data elements for the vertical transfer of data. These data elements and codes may include, but are not limited to, expanded student entry, gain and loss codes and unique course identification codes;
5. Provide for a historical data warehousing system at the school district and site levels to archive and retrieve comprehensive student data in order to provide all Pilot Program teachers and administrators with the necessary student academic performance indicators, including report card grades and multiple assessment data, to inform and improve instructional programs at the classroom level;
6. Provide for the aggregation of student performance credentialing at both school district and site levels. The Pilot Program schools shall develop credentialing criteria that shall include, but is not limited to, all areas of academic performance as outlined in paragraph 1 of this subsection, plus additional performance indicators pertaining to life skills, citizenship, and when applicable, employability skills and career awareness/exploration. Pilot Program schools shall develop a summary or condensed portfolio of student credentialing results within the transcript of all graduating students, to include cumulative credentialing data for students from grades six through twelve. The student credentialing portfolio shall be developed so that it can be electronically distributed via secure vertical transmission. Any transmission of a student portfolio to institutions of higher education and to other entities such as potential employers shall comply with the provisions of the Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA);
7. Provide for a continuous school and student improvement framework through the measurement of comprehensive, cumulative student growth by analyzing multiple academic performance measurements. Such measurements shall document relative growth over time so as to determine continuous improvement at the individual student, grade and school-wide levels; and
8. Provide for professional development in the use of techniques and tools to improve student achievement to teachers in the Pilot Program. Provide training to administrators and support personnel in the implementation of the student data management and reporting system.
Title: H.B. 1021 (multiple provisions)
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1900_engr.rtf
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 complete six hours of training annually. Requires training for both new and experienced board members to include topics relevant to school laws, school operations, and the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the local board members, including legal requirements, role differentiation, financial management and improving student achievement. Allows hours of training and instruction obtained in excess of the minimum requirements each year to accumulate and be carried forward from year to year.
Requires a statement of each board member's hours of training and instruction in the preceding year be: (A) Part of the comprehensive school plan and goals; (B) Published in the same way that other components of the comprehensive school plan and goals are required to be published; and (C) Made a part of the annual school performance report.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2517.pdf
Title: H.B. 2517
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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
assessments taken by students attending the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts to be sent to the public school district the student attended immediately prior to transferring to the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts. Requires these scores to be included on the school district's reports.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2881.pdf
Title: H.B. 2881
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 boards to adopt policies that require parental notification when a law enforcement officer interviews a student on school grounds. Provides both optional and mandatory parameters for such policies, including under what circumstances a parent may be present when a law enforcement officer interviews the student.
Expands school crime reporting requirements to mandate that school report cards report the total number of incidents that occurred not only on school grounds but also at school bus stops, on school buses and at school sponsored events that required a law enforcement officer, including a certified peace officer who serves as a school resource officer, to be contacted. Specifies that the total number of incidents reported must only include reports that law enforcement officers report to the school are supported by probable cause.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1044
Title: S.B. 1044
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| KS | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2005 | P-12 | 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. Requires the state board to implement a uniform, Web-based data reporting system for districts to allow any person to analyze and compare district financial and performance data.
Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465
Title: H.B. 2247 (section 1-2)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | 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/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf
Definitions: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf
School profiles: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf
Awards and consequences: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru .04
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | 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
measures the performance of schools and the academic performance of pupils and consists of a variety of indicators.
This bill states the intent of the Legislature to establish the Opportunity for Teaching and Learning (OTL) index as part of the
Public School Performance Accountability Program to measure the opportunities for teaching and learning as evidenced by access to
high-quality learning resources, conditions, and opportunities, based on standards that specify what all schools should have available for
instruction and support.
This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, beginning in 2006, publish OTL index values for each school at
the same time and in the same manner as the API. The superintendent is required to, no later than October 15, 2005, develop the OTL index that includes various specified indicators. The superintendent is required to determine a method for computing an OTL index for each school on an annual basis, and to determine minimal standards for indicators measured within the OTL index on a school-level basis.
This bill would provide that its provisions are to be implemented only if funds are appropriated for its purposes. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1419_bill_20040818_enrolled.html
Title: S.B. 1419
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 learners and pupils with disabilities. Defines a numerically significant pupil subgroup by requiring the test scores of the pupils in the subgroup to be valid test scores and by requiring the subgroup to meet certain other criteria to ensure that the subgroup is numerically significant as compared to the total pupil population. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_722_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 722
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 information regarding the academic achievement of the school. Other existing law establishes the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program which requires each school district, charter school, and county office of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, an achievement test and a standards-based achievement test, as specified.
This bill would require the Commission on State Mandates, on or before December 31, 2005, to reconsider certain decisions it issued relating to state reimbursement for the school accountability report card and the STAR Program, and to reconsider its parameters and guidelines for calculating the state reimbursement, in light of federal statutes enacted and state court decisions rendered since those mandates were enacted. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires each school district to include within the report card information regarding career technical education, the availability of sufficient textbooks and materials, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2551-2600/ab_2596_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2596_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2596
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 report card and to
determine whether the exceptions are either corrected or an acceptable plan of correction developed. Prohibits a local educational agency from being required to repay an apportionment based on a significant audit exception related to the verification of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials, teacher misassignments, and the accuracy of the information reported on the school accountability report card if the county superintendent of schools certifies to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Controller that the audit exception was corrected or that an acceptable plan of correction was submitted to the county superintendent of schools. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 office that are ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the 2003 base Academic Performance Index. Requires the county superintendent for the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Del Norte, Mariposa, Plumas, Sierra, and the City and County of San Francisco to contract with a neighboring county office of education or an independent auditor to conduct the required visits and make all required reports. Makes the priority objective of the visits to determine if there are sufficient textbooks, conditions of facilities that pose an emergency or urgent threat to the health or safety of pupils or staff, and accurate data reported on the school accountability report card with respect to the availability of sufficient textbooks and instructional materials, the safety, cleanliness, adequacy, and good repair of school facilities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 report card. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. Defines ''misassignment'' and ''vacant position'' for this purpose.
Requires the template for the school accountability report card to include a field to report the determination of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials and a summary statement of the condition of school facilities. Requires the department to provide examples of summary statements of the condition of school facilities that are acceptable and those that are unacceptable. Declares that these provisions further the purposes of the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 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 method of evaluating whether the school meets specified guidelines, and with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, the school be subject to the alternative accountability system of the Public School Performance Accountability Program in the same manner as public schools during the school's testing period, and each pupil placed in the school be tested in accordance with that accountability program, and the school prepare a school accountability report card. Requires the test results to be reported by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school to the State Department of Education.
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for a period of not longer than 18 months. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency to make notification of its intent to seek certification. Requires that only those nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies that provide special education that utilize staff who hold a certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to that which staff in a public school would be required to hold may be certified.
Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs to certify in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the school satisfies various requirements relating to, among others, access to standards-based curriculum and instructional materials, access to specific instruction and assistance, and a discipline policy. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| AK | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | 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
Title: H.B. 405
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| CO | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | 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
Title: 1 CCR 301-57
Source: Colorado State Web site
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | 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 determinations at school, local education agency and state levels with the purpose of promoting continuous improvement in student achievement levels; provides annual profiles for every school and local education agency.
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | 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 annually the amount of each student's and each school's academic growth in reading, writing, and mathematics over the periods between the administration of the CSAP assessments. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/F4561E2B63FB898087256DEF00574D0F?Open&file=1433_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1433
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | 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 school application must include a projected budget for the next two years. Requires proposed charter school application to include a proposed accountability plan with a school evaluation program and which contains an acknowledgement that a full accountability plan shall be developed and ready to implement prior to the date of opening. Requires the state board to annually report to the joint legislative oversight committee regarding charter school approvals and denials for the preceding 12 months and the reasons for such approvals or denials. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/SB0421.html
Title: S.B. 421
Source: gencourt.state.nh.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | 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/
Title: H.B. 1217
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | 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 accountability index of the school in which the student was previously enrolled if the student was enrolled in that school for at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the district if the student is enrolled in the district at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. Requires that a student who is not enrolled for 100 days be counted in the state accountability index. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB176/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 176
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | 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 for each school by gender and by race or ethnicity, and shall be reported to the public within three months of their receipt. These reports must be posted on the portion of the Department of Education's website relating to the School Performance Report Card, in a format and in a manner that allows year-to-year comparisons, and (ii) may include the National Assessment of Educational Progress state-by-state assessment. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1254ER
Title: H.B. 1254
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | 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 the local school divisions by the Department of Education of the test scores that will be used to determine each school's status pursuant to the provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0404
Title: S.B. 416
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | 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 English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (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 in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | 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?Open&file=1124_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1124
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | 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/public/HB1132.pdf
Title: H.B. 1132
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | 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-mandated criterion-referenced exam; student performance data shall be reported to parents and the public and serve as one of the components in developing a school improvement plan; beginning with the 2004-05 school year, information on the prior school year shall be published annually by October 15 and include demographic breakdowns, graduation rate, drop-out rate, transfers under the unsafe school choice option and transfers under the Public School Choice Act; annual reports must use a school rating system and performance goals.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5, 6
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | 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 child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, 115 Stat. 1425, as determined by the department.
(2) Each district and intermediate district shall provide to the department, in a form and manner prescribed by the
department, information necessary for the development of an annual progress report on the required implementation
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".
[1204a: Annual education report for district, prerequisite for accreditation; enrollment of high school students in postsecondary courses
1277: School improvement plan; criteria for evaluation; intermediate school district plan; review and report
1278: Core academic curriculum content standards; recommended model; curriculum for special education students; special assistance in reading; nonessential elective courses
1280: Accreditation of public schools; full building-level evaluation standards; summary accreditation standards; interim status; review of school performances; technical assistance; failure to meet standards; report to legislature]
(3) A district or intermediate district shall comply with all applicable reporting requirements specified in state and
federal law. Data provided to the center, in a form and manner prescribed by the center, shall be aggregated and
disaggregated as required by state and federal law.
(4) Each district shall furnish to the center not later than 7 weeks after the pupil membership count day, in a manner
prescribed by the center, the information necessary for the preparation of the district and high school graduation report. The center shall calculate an annual graduation and pupil dropout rate for each high school, each district, and
this state, in compliance with nationally recognized standards for these calculations. The center shall report all
graduation and dropout rates to the senate and house education committees and appropriations committees, the state
budget director, and the department not later than June 1 of each year.
(5) A district shall furnish to the center, in a manner prescribed by the center, information related to educational
personnel as necessary for reporting required by state and federal law.
(6) If a district or intermediate district fails to meet the requirements of subsection (2), (3), (4), or (5), the
department shall withhold 5% of the total funds for which the district or intermediate district qualifies under this act
until the district or intermediate district complies with all of those subsections. If the district or intermediate district
does not comply with all of those subsections by the end of the fiscal year, the department shall place the amount
withheld in an escrow account until the district or intermediate district complies with all of those subsections.
(7) If a school in a district is not accredited under section 1280 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1280, or is not
making satisfactory progress toward meeting the standards for that accreditation, the department shall withhold 5% of
the total funds for which the district qualifies under this act that are attributable to pupils attending that school. The
department shall place the amount withheld from a district under this subsection in an escrow account and shall not
release the funds to the district until the district submits to the department a plan for achieving accreditation for each
of the district's schools that are not accredited under section 1280 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1280, or are not
making satisfactory progress toward meeting the standards for that accreditation.
(8) Before publishing a list of schools or districts determined to have failed to make adequate yearly progress as
required by the federal no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, 115 Stat. 1425, the department shall allow
a school or district to appeal that determination. The department shall consider and act upon the appeal within 30 days
after it is submitted and shall not publish the list until after all appeals have been considered and decided.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf
Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | 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 center. The center shall do all of the following:
(a) Coordinate the collection of all data required by state and federal law from all entities receiving funds under this
act.
(b) Collect data in the most efficient manner possible in order to reduce the administrative burden on reporting
entities.
(c) Establish procedures to ensure the validity and reliability of the data and the collection process.
(d) Develop state and model local data collection policies, including, but not limited to, policies that ensure the
privacy of individual student data. State privacy policies shall ensure that student social security numbers are not
released to the public for any purpose.
(e) Provide data in a useful manner to allow state and local policymakers to make informed policy decisions.
(f) Provide reports to the citizens of this state to allow them to assess allocation of resources and the return on their
investment in the education system of this state.
(g) Assist all entities receiving funds under this act in complying with audits performed according to generally
accepted accounting procedures.
(h) Other functions as assigned by the state budget director.
(2) The state budget director shall appoint a CEPI advisory committee, consisting of the following members:
(a) One representative from the house fiscal agency.
(b) One representative from the senate fiscal agency.
(c) One representative from the office of the state budget director.
(d) One representative from the state education agency.
(e) One representative each from the department of career development and the department of treasury.
(f) Three representatives from intermediate school districts.
(g) One representative from each of the following educational organizations:
(i) Michigan association of school boards.
(ii) Michigan association of school administrators.
(iii) Michigan school business officials.
(h) One representative representing private sector firms responsible for auditing school records.
(i) Other representatives as the state budget director determines are necessary.
(3) The CEPI advisory committee appointed under subsection (2) shall provide advice to the director of the center
regarding the management of the center's data collection activities, including, but not limited to:
(a) Determining what data is necessary to collect and maintain in order to perform the center's functions in the most
efficient manner possible.
(b) Defining the roles of all stakeholders in the data collection system.
(c) Recommending timelines for the implementation and ongoing collection of data.
(d) Establishing and maintaining data definitions, data transmission protocols, and system specifications and
procedures for the efficient and accurate transmission and collection of data.
(e) Establishing and maintaining a process for ensuring the accuracy of the data.
(f) Establishing and maintaining state and model local policies related to data collection, including, but not limited
to, privacy policies related to individual student data.
(g) Ensuring the data is made available to state and local policymakers and citizens of this state in the most useful
format possible.
(h) Other matters as determined by the state budget director or the director of the center.
(4) The center may enter into any interlocal agreements necessary to fulfill its functions.
(5) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $363,400.00 for
2003-2004 to the office of the state budget in the department of management and budget to support the operations of
the center. In addition, from the general fund appropriation in section 11 for 2003-2004, there is allocated $1,500,000.00
to the center for a contract with Standard & Poor's for the school evaluation services website. The center shall
cooperate with the state education agency to ensure that this state is in compliance with federal law and is maximizing
opportunities for increased federal funding to improve education in this state. In addition, from the federal funds
appropriated in section 11 for 2003-2004, there is allocated the following amounts in order to fulfill federal reporting
requirements:
(a) An amount estimated at $1,000,000.00 funded from DED-OESE, title I, disadvantaged children funds.
(b) An amount estimated at $284,700.00 funded from DED-OESE, title I, reading first state grant funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $46,800.00 funded from DED-OESE, title I, migrant education funds.
(d) An amount estimated at $500,000.00 funded from DED-OESE, improving teacher quality funds.
(e) An amount estimated at $100,000.00 funded from DED-OESE, drug-free schools and communities funds.
(6) Federal funds allocated under this section that are not expended in the fiscal year in which they were allocated
may be carried forward to a subsequent fiscal year.
(7) The center may bill departments as necessary in order to fulfill reporting requirements of state and federal law.
(8) As used in this section:
(a) "Center" means the center for educational performance and information created under this section.
(b) "DED-OESE" means the United States department of education office of elementary and secondary education.
(c) "State education agency" means the department.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf
Governor explanation of veto (page 9/36): http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/journal/house/pdf/2003-HJ-08-13-064.pdf
Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| OH | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | 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 adopt rules. Requires assessment data to be disaggregated by age group, race/ethnicity, gender, performance of those who have been enrolled in a district or school for 3 or more years, performance of those enrolled in a district or school for one year or less, economically disadvantaged, those enrolled in a conversion community school (charter school), limited proficient, disabilities and migrant. Reports must include information pertaining to any change from the previous year on any performance indicator and a list of additional iformation collected by the department that is available for the district or building for which the report card is issued. When available, this must include mobility data disaggregated by race and socioeconomic status, college enrollment data, and data from other required reports. The minimum number for reporting subgroup information is 10. Annual reports must include the performance index score of the district or building, whether it has made adequate yearly progress, and whether it is excellent, effective, needs continuous improvement, is under academic watch, or is in a state of academic emergency. In calculating the rates of achievement on the performance indicators and the performance index scores for each a school performance report, the department must exclude all students with disabilities. Requires the inclusion of the percentage of "highly qualified" teachers on the report cards. Reports may include additional education and fiscal data.
Title: H.B. 3--Sec. 3302-021
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| NH | Became law without governor's signature 07/2003 | P-12 | 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 public report on the condition of education statewide and on a district-by-district and school-by-school basis. This report shall be entitled "New Hampshire School District Profiles" and shall be made available at every school administrative unit for public review. It must include demographic and pupil performance data on (a) Attendance rates. (b) Annual and cumulative drop-out rates of high school pupils and annual drop-out rates for pupils in grades 7 and 8. (c) School environment indicators, such as safe-schools data. (d) Number and percentage of graduating pupils going on to post-secondary education, military service, and advanced placement participation. (e) Performance on state tests administered pursuant to RSA 193-C and other standardized tests administered at local option. (f) Expulsion and suspension rates, including in-school and out-of-school suspensions, which shall be reported for each school year. (g) Number and percentage of classes taught by highly qualified teachers. (h) Teacher and administrative turnover rates at the school and district levels. and other relevant statistics as determined by the department of education. Comparisons with state averages are to be provided for all data reported. Comparisons of each district and school to itself based on its own statewide improvement and assessment performance for the prior school year and its most recent 3-year rolling averages are to be provided. Statewide rankings of each district and school are to be provided, including a statewide ranking of each school and school district based on the percentage increase of improvement as compared with the same school district's performance in the previous year. The report must be organized and presented in a manner that is easily understood by the public and that assists each school district with the identification of trends, strengths, and weaknesses and the development of its local school education improvement plan. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2003/hb0139.html
Title: H.B. 139 (193-E:3, III)
Source: http://gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NY | Adopted 07/2003 | P-12 | 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 amendment to section 100.2(m) establishes criteria and procedures to ensure compliance with the public reporting requirements of the NCLB, including the issuance of the New York State Report Card and local report card requirements. Each board of education shall make its report card available by appending it to copies of the proposed budget, making it available for distribution at the annual meeting, transmitting it to local newspapers of general circulation and making it available to parents. In accordance with the district's plan for school-based management and shared decision making, each board of education shall initiate measures designed to improve student achievement on the State learning standards. In a district in which a school performs below the benchmark established by the Commissioner, a local assistance plan shall be developed that specifies the actions to be taken to raise student results above such benchmark. A district may incorporate the elements of such plan into a comprehensive district education plan in lieu of a separate local assistance plan. The local assistance plan shall annually be made widely available through public means according to a timeline established by the Commissioner.
The proposed amendment to section 100.2(bb) establishes criteria and procedures relating to school district data reporting to ensure compliance with the NCLB. Each school district shall submit electronic records to the Department for each student enrolled in a public school in the district or placed out of the district for educational services by the district Committee on Special Education, including information relating to student demographic data, services provided, performance on State assessments, credentials awarded, and documentation of transfers and dropouts for secondary level students, and such other information as the Commissioner may require. The district files on record in the Department will be used for public reporting and for determining school/district accountability. The proposed amendment to section 119.3 establishes criteria and procedures relating to data and reporting requirements for charter schools to ensure compliance with the NCLB. The charter school files on record in the Department will be used for public reporting and for determining school accountability. http://www.regents.nysed.gov/July2003/0703brca2.htm
Title: Section 100.2(m) of Title 8 NYCRR
Source: http://www.regents.nysed.gov
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| NY | Adopted 07/2003 | P-12 | 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 requirements. NEW YORK REG 15900 (SN) http://www.regents.nysed.gov/July2003/0703brca2.htm
Title: 8 NYCRR Section 100.2(bb)
Source: http://www.regents.nysed.gov
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| DE | Rule Adoption 06/2003 | P-12 | 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 that must appear in each type of profile; defines when and how the profiles will be published. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%20100%20Accountability.htm#P4_57
Title: 14 DAC 104
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | 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 criteria for participation in Florida School Recognition Program; relates to equivalent scores for purpose of graduation; relates to the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0915&Chamber=House&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AH%25200915%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: H.B. 915
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | 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 combination of standards-based criterion referenced tests (CRTs) and norm referenced tests (NRTs) that are currently in place. Beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, grades 3 through 8 will utilize CRTs, and the NRTs will be permanently shifted to spring administrations in grades 4, 7, and 10. Reporting dates and related accountability deadlines also are changed to accommodate spring administrations. Additional accountability reporting elements for all schools and districts will include the percentage of paraprofessionals who are not qualified as defined within the federal law. (114 page bill) http://www.leg.state.nv.us/19thSpecial/bills/SB/SB1_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 1 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: Research Division, Legislative Counsel Bureau Summary
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | 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 designed to identify districts that are at high risk of having inaccurate dropout records and that, as a result, require on-site monitoring of dropout records. If the electronic audit of a district's dropout records indicates that a district is not at high risk of having inaccurate dropout records, the district may not be subject to on-site monitoring under this subsection. If the risk-based system indicates that a district is at high risk of having inaccurate dropout records, the district is entitled to an opportunity to respond to the commissioner's determination before on-site monitoring may be conducted. The district must respond not later than the 30th day after the date the commissioner notifies the district of the commissioner's determination. If the district's response does not change the commissioner's determination that the district is at high risk of having inaccurate dropout records or if the district does not respond in a timely manner, the commissioner shall order agency staff to conduct on-site monitoring of the district's dropout records. Rules must ensure that the Public Education Information Management System links student performance data to other related information for purposes of efficient and effective allocation of scarce school resources, to the extent practicable. Allows the use of compensatory funds for at risk or drop-out prevention programs but requires oversight of those districts with potential mis-use of funds. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/78R/billtext/SB00894F.HTM
Title: S.B. 894
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2003 | P-12 | Relates to computation and reporting of the ratios of a school district's expenditures and personnel relating to direct student instruction.
Title: S.B. 900
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Vetoed 05/2003 | P-12 | 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 every parent or legal guardian of a student at the school.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/EBCBEFA2DAA42A9987256CE600679E28?Open&file=275_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 275
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | 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 the state of the public education system and the progress toward achieving educational goals established by the State Legislature, the State and the federal ESEA Act of 2001. The Department is to develop a performance-based system of rewards and sanctions for schools and school districts. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform
Title: S.B. 76
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | 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 information needed to improve public schools by collecting and disseminating data and information resulting rom assessments made of public school students, to aid in the development and evaluation of educational programs and policies by school districts, and to inform parents of the educational progress of their children in the public schools. Information collected under the department's statewide program of educational assessment reporting shall be utilized as part of the state report card on school performance and on statewide progress by the state in accordance with implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-110. The program shall include the assignment of a unique student identifier to each student attending kindergarten through grade twelve. (Vetoed Section Five) http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | 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 the department their current class sizes for grades K-3. Chapter also requires districts to annually report to public the percentage of fourth-graders who are proficient in reading, and encourages districts to report to public on K-3 student reading proficiency. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | 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
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | 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 of 2001. Requires the state board to develop policy requiring the Department of Education to implement a program for identifying, evaluation, assisting and addressing school district failing to meet established levels of achievement mandated states as required in the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program (§§ 6-15-402 - 6-15-406). http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2697.pdf
Title: H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | 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 reporting schools' performance on state mandated exams to comply with No Child Left Behind; requires the State Board to develop a mandatory school readiness screening system for kindergarten students; requires a school improvement system. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2697.pdf
Title: H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | 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 duplicative or unnecessary reports. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2303&x=26&y=6
Title: H.B. 2303
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | 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://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/B43F5B5F6581B53187256CA2006BBA60?Open&file=117_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 117
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | 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 concerning the performance based accreditation program. Provides a method for calculating the graduation rate for high school students. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&session=1&request=getBill&docno=1120#latest_info
Title: H.B. 1120
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Concerns modifications for notifying schools districts of unsatisfactory schools. Concerns deadlines for charter school proposals. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/pubhome.nsf
Title: S.B. 137
Source: State legislative web site
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | 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 school. Local boards may establish additional indicators, but each report must include results of a parent survey and be publicly disseminated. Stipulates questions that must be included. District reports must be published no later than November 15 and must include names of local board members who failed to attend annual mandatory training. Also must include expenditures information. Requires the state department to create an accountability data system, provide resources to train district personnel and annually report to the legislature on districts using performance-based budgeting. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/house/HB0212MarkedUp.pdf
Title: H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: New Mexico Legislature
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| PA | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | 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, district and local levels. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2001/0/HB0204P4696.HTM
Title: H.B. 204
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | Arizona LEARNS Achievement Profiles Results: http://www.ade.az.gov/azlearns/
Title: N/A
Source: Arizona Department of Education Web site
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| GA | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | 2000-01 Report Card web page: (http://techservices.doe.k12.ga.us/reportcard/)
Title: N/A
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| ID | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | 2000-01 State and District Profiles: http://www.sde.state.id.us/DistProfiles/DistrictProfiles.asp
Title: N/A
Source: Idaho Department of Education Web site
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| LA | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | 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)
Title: N/A
Source: Louisiana Department of Education Web site
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| MD | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | Performance Reporting Web site: http://msp.msde.state.md.us/
Title: N/A
Source: Maryland Department of Education Web site
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| MS | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | 2000-2001 Mississippi Record Card: (http://www.ms.gov/frameset.jsp?URL=http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/)
Title: N/a
Source: Mississippi Department of Education Web site
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| NE | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | 2000-2001 Report Card: (http://reportcard.nde.state.ne.us/Main/PDFDownload.asp)
Title: N/A
Source: Nebraska Department of Education Web site
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| OK | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | Report Cards and Statistics: http://www.sde.state.ok.us/other.html
Title: N/A
Source: Oklahoma Department of Education Web site
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| SC | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | 2001 Report Cards web page: (http://www.myscschools.com/reportcard/)
Title: N/A
Source: North Carolina Department of Education Web site
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| WV | Active 10/2002 | P-12 | Report Cards web page: http://wvde.state.wv.us/data/report_cards/
Title: N/A
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | 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 school revenue limits. Relates to the computation of average daily attendance. Permits a county superintendent of schools to grant an exemption from minimum expenditures for classroom teacher salaries.
Title: A.B. 1818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Active 09/2002 | P-12 | 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, use the following link: http://www.k12.wa.us/edprofile/
Title: N/A
Source: Washington Department of Education Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2002 | P-12 | 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 implementation without reimbursement.
Title: H.B. 5663
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | 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 performance designations in September 2004 rather than August 2002. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0352C&session=22
Title: H.B. 352
Source: www.legis.state.ak.us
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| AK | Adopted 06/2002 | P-12 | 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
Title: Regulations Change - 4 AAC 06.170
Source: State of Alaska Dept. of Education & Early Development
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | 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 academic progress of ESL students who have been in a Colorado public school for three years or more or have subsequently been assessed as having attained proficiency in English. Also mandates creation of advisory commission within department and membership thereof to assist in implementing the above changes. Beginning July 1, 2005, requires districts to use single test developed by department to identify students eligible to participate in K-12 English language proficiency programs. Requires districts to annually report to the department the number of non-English languages which are the primary language of students served, as well as the number of students who speak each non-English language as their primary language. Requires as an accreditation indicator the results of the assessments of students whose dominant language is other than English but who have been enrolled in a Colorado public school for at least three years or have been assessed as proficient in English, and are consequently required to take the state assessment in English. Authorizes the state board to recommend to the general assembly any format or content changes to the school accountability reports, as well as to reconfigure and rearrange the data due to space limitations. Beginning in the 2005-06 academic year, provided there are sufficient funds from "No Child Left Behind," school accountability reports must provide a chart indicating the progress of students on the test to determine if the student's dominant language is one other than English. Requires scores of students whose dominant language is not English and who have attained a proficient score in English in each component of the test to identify students eligible to participate in K-12 English language proficiency programs to be included in the calculation of school academic performance ratings and accreditation. Requires the department to administer reading assessments in Spanish for 3rd- and 4th-graders whose dominant language is Spanish and a writing assessment in Spanish to such 4th-graders. Provided there are sufficient funds provided by the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," the board must develop and, starting spring 2003 the department must administer a writing assessment in Spanish for 3rd-graders whose dominant language is Spanish http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/5FC3C9C533C2716287256B3C0059EE95?Open&file=109_enr.pdf.
Title: S.B. 109
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | 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. Provides that the school report card must be posted on the schools website rather than automatically mailed to parents, and a written notice sent home to parents with the Web site address. Printed copies are available on request. Requires districts to adopt policies for the transfer of students within the district. Requires requests for transfer in relation to ESEA to be made within 30 days of notification of right to transfer. Establishes criteria under which local board may refuse request to transfer. Requires the notifice of parents of child's placement in bilingual education program to include more specific information, including reasons why child was placed in program, child's level of English proficiency, how this level was assessed, and the child's current level of academic achievement. Permits parents to immediately withdraw child from bilingual program rather than at time of notice or end of semester. Increases supplemental aid to low income school districts. http://www.legis.state.il.us/publicacts/pubact92/acts/92-0604.html
Title: S.B. 1983
Source: www.legis.state.il.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | 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 schools serving students grades 9-12 must include as indicators the AIMS test, annual dropout and graduation rates. Establishes school classification system; requires department to determine criteria for each school's classification using specified methodology; requires each school's classification and criteria to appear on school report cards. Requires department to develop parallel achievement profile for accommodation schools, alternative schools, and schools serving fewer than 100 pupils. Addresses required actions of first-year and second-year underperforming schools, including underperforming charter schools. Creates consequences for failing schools that do not submit improvement plans and failing schools that do not make adequate improvement during two consecutive years of designation as such. Permits state board to allow governmental, nonprofit or or private organizations to submit applications to the state board to partially or fully manage the school. Sets out state board duties to periodically review performance of school operated by alternative providers as mentioned above. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0284.htm
Title: H.B. 2658
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | 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 designated an alternative education campus. Mandates that Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) results for all part-time students at an alternative education campus be included in the school's academic performance and academic improvement ratings. However, any school designated an alternative education campus is exempt from receiving an academic performance or improvement rating unless the state board approves receipt of such ratings. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/631277866E3CECB087256B0300718AF9?Open&file=094_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 94
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | 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 requiring Kansas, Inc. to perform a study to be conducted in 1997 evaluating changes in pupil performance attributable to the school accreditation system. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2002/9.pdf
Title: S.B. 9
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | 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; removes language concerning the obsolete performance based accreditation program; moves the September 2002 publication date to January 2003.
Title: H.B. 1108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | 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 in its current form, and whether the Board recommends any changes to the SOQ.
Title: H.B. 884, S.B. 350
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | 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 not conflict with requirements contained in Title I of the federal elementary and secondary education act of 1965, as amended. The goals may be established for all students, economically disadvantaged students, limited English proficient students, students with disabilities, and students from
disproportionately academically underachieving racial and ethnic backgrounds. The commission may establish school and school district
goals addressing high school graduation rates and dropout reduction goals for students in grades seven through twelve. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/Senate/6450-6474/6456_sl_03192002.txt
Title: S.B. 6456
Source: www.leg.wa.gov
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2002 | Postsec. | Authorizes the rules relating to a higher education report card and performance indicators.
Title: S.B. 533
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | 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 years before they are included in the district's performance rating. Adds the new category of "excellent" to the district performance ratings and permits excellent districts, in addition to effective districts, to be free of certain mandates. Requires district performance ratings to be issued annually rather than triennially as under prior law. Requires the department fo issue report cards for individual buildings in addition to districts. Requires the disaggregation of data on the report cards according to age, race, ethnicity, gender, mobility, vocational education status, and economic status.
Title: S.B. 1
Source:
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2001 | P-12 | 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 or any of grades 1 to 5 to jointly develop with parents, for all children enrolled at the schoolsite, a school-parent compact. Provides alternate sanctions to which a school is subject if it does not meet its growth target.
Title: A.B. 961
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2001 | P-12 | 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 reflected by their local communities; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include certain data in the school performance reports as specified.
Title: S.B. 811
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/sb0800.dir/sb0811.en.html
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | 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 and unsatisfactory schools by the state board of education.
Title: S.B. 98
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | 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.
Title: H.B. 220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | 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 information on a building level only when a district has 2 or more buildings that hold the same grades, the bill requires reporting financial information on the district as a whole and by attendance center.
Title: H.B. 865; S.B. 575
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | 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 in student academic achievement established by the board," which must be at least as rigorous as the performance improvement level set by state board. Changes sections relating to school performance to reflect change from school performance objectives to student improvement levels. Specifies that board assessment and evaluation of education programs offered by the district must be on annual basis, and that assessment must consider the students' status regarding achieving student performance improvement levels. Replaces language requiring board to establish annual performance objectives for each school with language requiring board to establish annual student performance improvement levels for each school that are at least as rigorous as state board student performance improvement levels.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | 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 under certain circumstances; revises provisions governing the reporting of results of certain achievement and proficiency examinations; revises the requirements for a course in American government and a course in American history.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | 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 evaluation of the equity among the regional subdistricts.
Title: A.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec. | 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.
Title: H.B. 3533
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | 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.
Title: H.B. 1301
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | 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 financial management performance. Districts are required to issue reports and hold public hearings on those reports.
Title: S.B. 218
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | 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 test approved by the department of education or through a performance-based instrument to measure proficiency; (2) school safety; (3) the dropout rate; (4) attendance; and (5) parent and community involvement. Districts must give a nationally norm-referenced test, standards-based or performance-based assessment to all students enrolled in a public school or state institution in grades four (changed from grade three) through nine. Students with disabilities must participate in the test as determined on their individual education program. Students who have been assessed as non-English or limited English proficient using state-approved language assessments and meeting required thresholds shall be provided an alternative norm-referenced, performance-based or standards-based assessment in their primary language.
Title: S.B. 660
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| UT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | 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.
Title: H.B. 235
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Concerns the replacement of information on student dropout rates with information on school attendance rates in reports for elementary schools.
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | 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 proficiency; requires each local school boards staff be provided a professional development program to effectively maintain U-PASS; requires additional data to be reported annually.
Title: S.B. 28
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | 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.
Title: S.B. 1632
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | 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 students in grades 6 and 9; and 10th-grade basic skills competency test. Test results shall identify schools for assistance starting in 2003-2004. State Board shall also develop school performance report to provide information, including U-PASS scores, for every public school in the state.
The Task Force (named above) shall also seek public input on a possible system of rewards and interventions and on discontinuing social promotion. Task Force shall present report by November 30, 2000.
Title: H.B. 177
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | 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 institutions and/or employment status of students who complete the 12th grade.
Title: S.B. 387
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | 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, parents, administration, and students; allows students input into quality of education.
Title: S.B. 2837
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | 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 programs included in the general education block grant.
Title: H.B. 4587
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | 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.
Title: S.B. 2745
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | 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 reporting system to enable the evaluation of every public school in the state; assists in performance decisions at all levels of school administration. Includes component that requires all 11th graders to take the ACT test.
Title: S.B. 186
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | 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 Reform Commission to continue. The Education Coordinating Council (ECC) is created. The ECC is assigned 15 duties, some of which include exercising oversight of accountability systems in other departments and coordinating the activities of state, regional, and local cooperative public education agencies, offices, or councils. The Office of Education Accountability (OEA) is also created. The OEA is directed to establish accountability policies and standards for the state and establish the "official" report card. The Governor and the OEA will give rewards to successful schools. The State Board of Education is given the task of mandating interventions for failing schools, including appointing special masters, mandating school improvement teams, removal of school personnel, allow for a state charter school, mandating the complete reconstitution of the school and hiring all new staff and mandating that parents have the option to relocate to another public school in the district. The OEA develops and both the Council and the State Board of Education adopt a definition for which students are performing "below grade level" and the definition of "dropout." It is charged with setting the pass score for the CRCT and end of course tests.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | 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 program offered by a school corporation; provides that an assessment for early entry must consist of more than an intelligence test; states that $ 25 is the maximum fee a parent must pay to obtain a waiver for early entry.
Title: S.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | 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 statutory requirements for teacher and administrator certification, and testing of graduating seniors in education degree programs and instructors of education methodology. Schools at the Center Program is created to assure that rural schools meet individual needs and develop skills for students to be effective participants in the civic, cultural, and economic life of their rural community; connect community and school improvement plans that are consistent with state standards; and develop clusters of rural schools to provide community-based education consistent with state and local standards. The assessment and reporting system must be aligned with state standards and implemented beginning with the 1999-2000 school year. Program beginning 9-01-99 and ending 12-31-2001 will use validated tests to determine the knowledge/skills of graduating students and instructors teaching classes in education methodology.
Title: L.B. 812
Source: Nebraska Legislature
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| NE | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | 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 report card for primary and secondary education. Report card to include information on student performance, teacher and student attendance, teacher qualifications and salaries, graduate tracking, and demographics. Additional $80,000 is left in the second year appropriation for incentives and reimbursements for schools that participate in the next National Assessment of Educational Progress. [Governor made some line item reductions that did not affect the above].
Title: L.B. 144
Source: Nebraska Legislature
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| HI | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | 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 each school.
Title: S.B. 1307
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/1999 | P-12 | 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.
Title: H.B. 6241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Relates to public school campus improvement plans and school district performance reports.
Title: S.B. 1724
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed by governor 06/1999 | P-12 | 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.
Title: S.B. 576
Source: "Advocate," Summer 1999
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| FL | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | 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. Commissioner must prepare reports that include descriptions of performance of all schools participating in assessment program, including their major student populations. Reports must include the median scores of all students who scored at or in the lowest 25th percentile of the state in the prior year. Beginning with 1998-99 school year, annual report must identify schools as being "A" through "F", as defined by state board of education rule.
Title: H.B. 751, 753, 755
Source: Academic Excellence Council 1999 End-of-Session Report
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| CA | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Institutes a ranking of California's schools, with rewards for schools that improve and interventions in underperforming ones. Creates an Academic Performance Index (API).
Title: S.B. 1X
Source: California Department of Education
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| IN | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | 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 statute that is applicable to all school corporations.). Requires IPS to include certain information in the annual performance report that is not required of other school corporations.
Title: H.B. 1197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Provides for annual individual school performance reports and for distribution of the reports to all parents or guardians of children enrolled in public schools.
Title: S.B. 125
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 12/1998 | P-12 | 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; authorizes trustees to deposit proceeds from insurance settlements on real or personal property insured by the district into an appropriate fund.
Title: S.B. 69
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Relates to information included in the annual school and school districts performance reports.
Title: A.B. 883
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | 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 and conduct such assessment and to prescribe the components of the assessment; requires an annual report with recommendations to the legislature.
Title: S.B. 2836 Accountability
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | 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.
Title: H.B. 244 Accountability
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | 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, and the general public.
Title: H.B. 1526 Special Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | 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 excludes resouce teachers in elementary school grades and classes and all special education teachers, principals, assistant principals, counselors, and librarians in elementary, middle and secondary schools.
Title: H.B. 211 Pupil/Teacher Ratios
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 08/1997 | P-12 | 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 assessment of the number of full-time nurses employed by the school district, and whether the nurses employed by the school district meet the specifications of a school nurse as set forth in existing law.
Title: S.B. 305 School Accountability Report Card
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | 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; requires English, social studies, mathematics, and science be taught each year in grades one through eight; requires every elementary school to include the teaching of phonics; requires funds to be budgeted for tutorial assistance programs at each school for students identified on normed reference tests as being one or more grade levels below the national norm; requires state assistance and state intervention for school identified as being in need of assistance; requires the implementation of a new budgeting and financial reporting system; requires school level accountability reports; includes restrictions on the use of state appropriated funding for instructional salaries and classroom instructional support; and requires the development of a plan for the reduction of teacher paperwork.
Title: H.B. 466/S.B. 391 Nationally Normed Test
Source: Legislative Fiscal Office; American Chemical Society, State & Local Reaction
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--Regional Entities |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Credit Recovery |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches |
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| Instructional Approaches--Constructivism |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills |
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| Instructional Approaches--Official English |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task |
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| Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Brain Development |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Data Systems |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Parent/Family--Research |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--International |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Privatization--Education Management Agencies (EMOs) |
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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Attitudes |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Climate/Culture |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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| Special Education--Finance |
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| Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming) |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Special Populations--Foster Care |
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| Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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| Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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| Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Migrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Military |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Common Core State Standards |
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| Standards--Implementation |
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| State Comparisons/Statistics |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Ballot Questions |
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| State Policymaking--Constitutional Clauses |
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| State Policymaking--Politics |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Student Achievement--State Trends |
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| Student Supports |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Student Surveys |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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| Students--Mobility |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Research/Evaluation |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Change/Improvements |
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| Urban--Governance |
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| Whole-School Reform Models |
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| Whole Child |
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