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HB 2391 Standards of Learning assessments for school accreditation.

Introduced by: James H. Dillard II | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Use of Standards of Learning assessments for school accreditation. Directs the Board of Education, in establishing accreditation requirements for schools, to create a sliding scale for the inclusion and consideration of the results of Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments. The sliding scale must provide for the consideration of other indicators of school performance, and is to weight any such Standards of Learning assessment scores to benefit the particular school.

Currently, the Standards of Accreditation (SOA) provide that "evaluation of the performance of schools shall take into consideration" the percentage of eligible students achieving a passing score on SOL assessments or other tests used to obtain verified units of credit; the percentage of students passing the literacy and numeracy tests required for the Modified Standard Diploma; the percentage of students whose Individualized Education Plans (IEP) specify participation in an alternate assessment who obtain a score of "proficient"; the school's attainment of certain provisional accreditation benchmarks; and the number of students who successfully complete a remediation recovery program and subsequently pass SOL tests in English and/or mathematics during any scheduled administration by the end of the following school year (8 VAC 20-131-280).

More specifically, however, the SOA provide that accreditation ratings will be based on the percentage of students passing SOL tests or approved additional tests or on a trailing three-year average that includes the current year's scores and the scores from the two most recent years in each applicable academic area, or the current year’s scores, whichever is higher (8 VAC-20-131-280 C 3).

The SOA ultimately phase in four accreditation levels after the year 2009. These ratings are based solely on pass rates on the SOL assessments for the four core subject areas (8 VAC 20-131-300).


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