ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session
	House: ED DP 10-0-0-0

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HB 2301: CTEDs; letter grades; exclusion

Sponsor: Representative Blackman, LD 6

Caucus & COW

Overview

Exempts a career technical education district (CTED) from being assigned a letter grade.

History

By November 1 annually, the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) must compile for each public school and local education agency (LEA), and recommend to the State Board of Education (SBE), an annual achievement profile. This annual achievement profile consists of an educational dashboard that reflects the achievement for each public school and LEA and includes, at a minimum, the following academic and educational indicators:

1) Multiple measures of academic performance or other academic indicators as determined by SBE;

2) Academic progress on the statewide assessments in English language arts and math;

3) Academic progress on English language learner assessments;

4) Progress towards college and career readiness for all schools and local education agencies that offer instruction in grades 9-12;

5) Academic progress on menu of achievement assessments administered; and

6) Multiple measures of educational performance or other relevant indicators of school quality that assess a school's educational impact, such as graduation and attendance rates.

Statute requires that the annual achievement profile use classifications based on an A-F letter grade system adopted by SBE. This A-F letter grade system is applied to each performance indicator of the annual achievement profile. SBE must then assign an overall grade for the public school or LEA (A.R.S. § 15-241).

Provisions

1. Prohibits ADE from assigning a CTED a letter grade. (Sec. 1).

2. Makes technical and conforming changes (Sec. 2).

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