Page 1, line
10, after "agency" insert ", and shall recommend
to the state board of education,"
Line 24,
strike "f" insert "g"
Line 31,
after "indicators" insert "disaggregated by
student subgroup"
Line 34,
after "year" insert a period strike remainder of line
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35
Line 40,
after the third period, strike remainder of line
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41 through 43
Page 2,
between 8 and 9, insert:
"E. IF NEITHER THE SCHOOL NOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETS THE MINIMUM
STUDENT COUNT AS RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT AND APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD
OF EDUCATION FOR ANY OF THE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PRESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION D
OF THIS SECTION, THEN THE PERFORMANCE INDICATOR SHALL NOT BE FACTORED INTO THE
LETTER GRADE ASSIGNED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION."
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Line 9,
strike "Subject to final adoption by the state board of education,"
Line 13,
after the first "methodology" insert "AND SHALL
RECOMMEND TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR FINAL ADOPTION THE CRITERIA FOR
EACH SCHOOL AND LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY CLASSIFICATION"; after
"The" insert "DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL
DEVELOP THE"
Line 15,
strike the first comma, insert a period; after the second comma, insert "the methodology"
Line 28,
after the period, insert "THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL
RECOMMEND THE CLASSIFICATIONS TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR FINAL
ADOPTION."
Line 35,
after the period insert "AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"
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1, strike "E and"; after "F" insert "and
g"
Line 3, strike
"Subject to final adoption by the state board of education,"
Line 9,
strike "as"
Line 10,
strike "prescribed by the state board of education"
Line 11,
after the period, insert "THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL
RECOMMEND TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR FINAL ADOPTION THE USE OF
ACHIEVEMENT PROFILES AND EXCEPTIONS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION."
Line 12,
after "process" insert ", INCLUDING A DEADLINE
FOR WHEN REQUESTS MUST BE SUBMITTED,"
Line 14,
after the period, insert "IF A CORRECTION TO STUDENT DATA
IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-915, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY THE SCHOOL
OR LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY OF THE DATA CORRECTION PROCESS. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
ANNUALLY PROCESS STUDENT DATA CORRECTION REQUESTS PRIOR TO THE FINAL ADOPTION
OF THE ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT PROFILE BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION."
Line 15,
strike "state board" insert "department"
Line 17,
after "grade" insert ", OR A LETTER GRADE APPLIED
TO A PERFORMANCE INDICATOR PRESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION D OF THIS SECTION,"; after "factors" insert ",
INCLUDING ACHIEVEMENT PROFILE DESIGNATIONS BASED ON INCORRECT DATA,"
Line 18,
strike the first "board" insert "department";
after the period strike remainder of line
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19, insert "BASED ON AN APPEAL SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO THIS
SUBSECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ISSUE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION FOR FINAL APPROVAL OR DENIAL."
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28, insert:
"Sec. 2. Section
15-241.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-241.02. School
improvement plans; solutions teams; withholding of
state monies
A. If
a school is assigned a letter grade of D pursuant to section 15‑241,
within ninety days after receiving notice of the classification, the school district
governing board shall develop an improvement plan for the school, submit a copy
of the plan to the superintendent of public instruction and the county
educational service agency and supervise the implementation of the plan. The
governing board shall include in the plan necessary components as identified by
the state board of education. Within thirty days after submitting the
improvement plan to the superintendent of public instruction and the county
educational service agency, the governing board shall hold a public meeting in
each school that has been assigned a letter grade of D and shall present the
respective improvement plans that have been developed for each school. The
governing board, within thirty days after receiving notice of the classification,
shall provide written notification of the classification to each residence
within the attendance area of the school. The notice shall explain the
improvement plan process and provide information regarding the public meeting
required by this subsection.
B. A
school that has not submitted an improvement plan pursuant to subsection A of
this section is not eligible to receive monies from the classroom site fund
established by section 15‑977 for every day that a plan has not been
received by the superintendent of public instruction within the time specified
in subsection A of this section plus an additional ninety days. The state
board of education shall require the superintendent of the school district to
testify before the board and explain the reasons that an improvement plan for
that school has not been submitted.
C. If
a charter school is assigned a letter grade of D pursuant to section 15‑241,
within thirty days the school shall notify the parents of the students
attending the school of the classification. The notice shall explain
the improvement plan process and provide information regarding the public
meeting required by this subsection. Within ninety days after
receiving the classification, the charter holder shall present an improvement plan
to the charter sponsor at a public meeting and submit a copy of the plan to the
sponsor of the charter school. The charter holder shall include in the
improvement plan necessary components as identified by the state board of
education. The school is not eligible to receive monies from the classroom
site fund established by section 15‑977 for every day that an improvement
plan has not been received by the sponsor of the charter school within the time
specified in this subsection plus an additional ninety days. The
charter holder shall appear before the sponsoring board and explain why the
improvement plan has not been submitted.
D. If
a school is assigned a letter grade of D pursuant to section 15‑241 for a
third consecutive year, the department of education shall visit the school site
to confirm the classification data and to review the implementation of the
school's improvement plan. The school shall be assigned a letter
grade of F unless an alternate letter grade is assigned after an appeal pursuant
to section 15‑241, subsection I j.
A school that is assigned a letter grade of D for fewer than three consecutive
years may also be assigned a letter grade of F if the state board of education
determines that there is no reasonable likelihood that the school will achieve
an average level of performance within the next two years.
E. The
superintendent of public instruction and the county educational service agency
shall collaborate to assign a solutions team to a school assigned a letter
grade of D pursuant to section 15‑241 or a school assigned a letter grade
of F pursuant to section 15‑241 based on academic need and available
resources. County educational service agencies may enter into
agreements to provide services to schools from other counties. Any other
school, subject to available resources, may be assigned a solutions team
pursuant to a mutual agreement between the department of education or the
county education service agency, or both, and the school. The solutions team
shall be composed of master teachers, fiscal analysts and curriculum assessment
experts who are certified by the state board of education as Arizona academic
standards technicians. The department of education or the county educational
service agency may hire or contract with administrators, principals and
teachers who have demonstrated experience in improving academic outcomes and
may use these personnel as part of the solutions team. The department of
education shall work with staff at the school to assist in curricula alignment
and shall instruct teachers on how to increase pupil academic progress,
considering the school's annual achievement profile. The solutions team shall
consider the existing improvement plan to assess the need for changes to
curricula, professional development and resource allocation and shall present a
statement of its findings to the school administrator and district
superintendent. Within forty‑five days after the presentation of the
solutions team's statement of findings, the school district governing board, in
cooperation with each school within the school district that is assigned a
letter grade of D and its assigned solutions team representative, shall develop
and submit to the department of education and the county educational service
agency an action plan that details the manner in which the school district will
assist the school as the school incorporates the findings of the solutions team
into the improvement plan. The department of education shall review the action
plan and shall either accept the action plan or return the action plan to the
school district for modification. If the school district does not submit an
approved action plan within forty‑five days, the state board of education
may direct the superintendent of public instruction to withhold up to ten
percent of state monies that the school district would otherwise be entitled to
receive each month until the plan is submitted to the department of education
and the county educational service agency, at which time those monies shall be
returned to the school district.
F. The
parent or guardian of a pupil may apply to the department of education, in a
manner determined by the department of education, for a certificate of
supplemental instruction from the failing schools tutoring fund established by
section 15‑241. Pupils attending a school assigned a letter grade of D
or F may select an alternative tutoring program in academic standards from a
provider that is certified by the state board of education. To qualify, the
provider must state in writing a level of academic improvement for the pupil
that includes a timeline for improvement that is agreed to by the parent or
guardian of the pupil. The state board of education shall annually
review academic performance levels for certified providers and may remove a
provider at a public hearing from an approved list of providers if that
provider fails to meet its stated level of academic improvement. The state
board of education shall determine the application guidelines and the maximum
value for each certificate of supplemental instruction. The state board of
education shall annually complete a market survey in order to determine the
maximum value for each certificate of supplemental instruction. This
subsection does not require this state to provide additional monies beyond the
monies provided pursuant to section 42‑5029, subsection E, paragraph 7.
G. Within
sixty days after receiving notification of a school being assigned a letter
grade of F pursuant to section 15‑241, the school district governing
board shall evaluate needed changes to the existing school improvement plan,
consider recommendations from the solutions team, submit a copy of the plan to
the superintendent of public instruction and the county educational service
agency and supervise the implementation of the plan. Within thirty days after
submitting the improvement plan to the superintendent of public instruction and
the county educational service agency, the governing board shall hold a public
meeting in each school that has been assigned a letter grade of F and shall
present the respective improvement plans that have been developed for each
school. The governing board, within thirty days after receiving notice of the
classification, shall provide written notification of the classification to
each residence in the attendance area of the school. The notice shall explain
the improvement plan process and provide information regarding the public
meeting required by this subsection.
H. A
school that has not submitted an improvement plan pursuant to subsection G of
this section is not eligible to receive monies from the classroom site fund
established by section 15‑977 for every day that a plan has not been
received by the superintendent of public instruction within the time specified
in subsection G of this section plus an additional ninety days. The state
board of education shall require the superintendent of the school district to
testify before the board and explain the reasons that an improvement plan for
that school has not been submitted.
I. If
a charter school is assigned a letter grade of F pursuant to section 15‑241,
the department of education shall immediately notify the charter school's
sponsor. The charter school's sponsor shall either take action to
restore the charter school to acceptable performance or revoke the charter
school's charter. Within thirty days, the charter school shall
notify the parents of the students attending the school of the classification
and of any pending public meetings to review the issue.
J. The
department of education shall evaluate a school that has been assigned a letter
grade of F pursuant to section 15‑241 to determine whether the school,
charter holder or school district failed to properly implement its school
improvement plan, align the curricula with academic standards, provide teacher
training, prioritize the budget or implement other proven strategies to improve
academic performance. After visiting the school site pursuant to subsection D
of this section, the department of education shall submit to the state board of
education a recommendation either to proceed pursuant to subsections E, F and G
of this section or that the school be subject to a public hearing to determine
whether the school failed to properly implement its improvement plan and the
reasons for the department's recommendation. If the school is a charter
school, the department shall submit a report to the sponsor of the charter
school. The sponsor shall make a determination pursuant to subsection N of
this section.
K. If
the department recommends a public hearing, the state board of education shall
meet and may provide by a majority vote at the public hearing for the continued
operation of the school as allowed by this subsection. The state board of education
shall determine whether governmental, nonprofit and private organizations may
submit applications to the state board to fully or partially manage the
school. The state board's determination shall include:
1. If
and to what extent the local governing board may participate in the operation
of the school, including personnel matters.
2. If
and to what extent the state board will participate in the operation of the
school.
3. Resource
allocation pursuant to subsection M of this section.
4. Provisions
for the development and submittal of a school improvement plan to be presented
in a public meeting at the school.
5. A
suggested time frame for the alternative operation of the school.
L. The
state board of education shall periodically review the status of a school that
is operated by an organization other than the school district governing board
to determine whether the operation of the school should be returned to the
school district governing board. Before the state board makes a determination,
the state board or its designee shall meet with the school district governing
board or its designee to determine the time frame, operational considerations
and appropriate continuation of existing improvements that are necessary to
ensure a smooth transition of authority from the other organization back to the
school district governing board.
M. If
an alternative operation plan is provided pursuant to subsection L k of this section, the state board of
education shall pay for the operation of the school and shall adjust the school
district's district additional assistance pursuant to section 15‑961,
base support level pursuant to section 15‑943, monies distributed from
the classroom site fund established by section 15‑977 and transportation
support level pursuant to section 15‑945 to accurately reflect any
reduction in district services that are no longer provided to that school by
the district. The state board may modify the school district's revenue control
limit, the district support level and the general budget limit calculated
pursuant to section 15‑947 by an amount that corresponds to this
reduction in services. The state board shall retain the portion of state aid
that would otherwise be due the school district for the school and shall
distribute that portion of state aid directly to the organization that
contracts with the state board to operate the school.
N. If
the sponsor of a charter school determines that a charter holder failed to
properly implement its improvement plan, the sponsor of the charter school shall
revoke the charter school's charter.
O. If
there are more than two schools in a district and more than one‑half, or
in any case more than five, of the schools in the district are assigned a
letter grade of F pursuant to section 15‑241 for more than two
consecutive years, in the next election of governing board members the election
ballot shall contain the following statement immediately above the listing of
governing board candidates:
Within the
last five years, (number of schools) schools in the ________ school district
have been assigned a letter grade of D or F.
P. At
least twice each year the department of education shall publish in a newspaper
of general circulation in each county of this state a list of schools that are
assigned a letter grade of F pursuant to section 15‑241.
Q. The
state board of education shall adopt guidelines to include supplementary
training in reading instruction for teachers who provide instruction to pupils
in a kindergarten program or grade one, two or three in an improvement plan
pursuant to subsection A of this section.
R. In
addition to any other corrective procedures prescribed in this section and
sections 15‑241 and 15‑241.01, a school that has been assigned a
letter grade of D or F for two consecutive years shall implement a science,
technology, engineering and mathematics intervention strategy under the
supervision of the state board of education.
S. In
addition to any other corrective procedures prescribed in this section, a
school district that has been assigned a letter grade of D or F pursuant to
section 15‑241 for two consecutive years shall implement a parent
involvement strategy. The parent involvement strategy shall be included in the
school improvement plan for each applicable school within the district, as
prescribed in subsection A or G of this section, as applicable.
T. The
department of education shall publish criteria for a school's or school
district's exit status from a previous assignment of a letter grade of F in
accordance with this section. The criteria shall prescribe the actions and
results necessary to be deemed to have complied with this section regarding
school improvement, including the proper implementation of a school improvement
plan pursuant to subsection J of this section. These criteria shall be
provided to a school or school district if it is assigned a letter grade of F
pursuant to section 15‑241." END_STATUTE
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Number: S.B. 1411