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HB 1999 Individual school performance; Board of Education shall approve student growth indicators, report.
Introduced by: Thomas A. Greason | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "student growth" and requires the Board, by October 1, 2014, to report individual school performance using an A-to-F grading system that includes the standards of accreditation, state and federal accountability requirements, and student growth indicators. This bill is identical to SB 1207.
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by October 1, 2015 to report individual school perfromance using a grading system in addition to the standards of accreditation. The grading system will be based on both state and federal accountability requirements and an A to F grading scale and will include student growth and the school's accreditation rating. The Board will make the system and the assigned grades available to the public.
The bill also requires the Board, by October 1, 2013, to (i) assign a grade from A to F to each public school in the Commonwealth based primarily on state accreditation and federal accountability determinations for the 2013-2014 school year based on 2012-2013 state assessment results; (ii) make the grade assigned to each school in the Commonwealth available to the public on the annual report card for each school; and (iii) report to the General Assembly and the public a summary of the system and the assigned grades.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education to develop, by August 1, 2013, a grading system in addition to the standards of accreditation for individual school performance. The grading system will be based on an A to F grading scale and will include the school%92s accreditation rating. The Board will make the system and the assigned grades available to the public.