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HB 2086 Remediation programs and services.

Introduced by: Mitchell Van Yahres | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Remediation programs and services. Clarifies which students the division superintendent shall require to attend remedial summer school or another form of remediation, and which students he may require to attend these programs or special prevention and intervention programs. This bill clarifies that transportation services are a part of the full costs of remediation programs and that transportation must be provided by local school divisions to any student required to attend remediation programs, whether such programs are offered in the summer, before and after school, or during the school day, if the program is outside the school that the student attends. Students required to attend remediation programs may not be charged for transportation services by the school division. The bill also requires school divisions to monitor the academic achievement of students required to attend remediation programs in accordance with the methodology that must be developed by the Board of Education to track the linear academic progress of such students. School divisions must also report the cost effectiveness of intradistrict and regional remediation programs. As a condition for full funding of summer remedial programs, Board of Education standards must require the provision of transportation services, the use of master teachers, the development of an educational plan specific to the instructional needs of the student, linear tracking of student achievement, and the use of one or more school reform models under the federal Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program, designed to raise student achievement, which have been approved by the Board of Education.

This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on Educational Accountability's Task Force on Remediation.


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