Tomorrow (Friday) is the deadline for bills to move out of fiscal committees, unless the bill is determined to be"Necessary to Implement the Budget” (NTIB). We’re hearing 25 bills in the Appropriations Committee today, which is likely to last late into the night. Here are the first five …
House Bill 1252 creates the K-12 Online Professional Development Project (Project), if funds are appropriated for this purpose; requires a contracted facilitator to convene a Steering Committee of K-12 educators to design the Project, including selecting the content of the professional development modules to be provided; specifies that the modules cover a range of topics and incorporate a variety of media; requires a status report by December 1, 2015; and directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to conduct an analysis of professional development for K-12 teachers and principals, including resources expended, fund sources, and type and content of professional development, with a report due by December 1, 2014.
Substitute House Bill 1424 modifies and clarifies descriptions and definitions of a K-12 dropout prevention, intervention, and reengagement system (System); directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a System assessment tool for use by local partnerships of schools, families, and communities and continue development of a dropout prevention early warning and intervention system; creates a program to allocate funds for graduation coaches for the most struggling high schools, and school success coaches for associated elementary and middle schools, if funds are appropriated; allocates funding for students in approved dropout reengagement programs at a rate of 1.22 per full-time equivalent student; and adds dropout prevention, intervention, and reengagement services to the basic core services to be provided by Educational Service Districts.
Substitute House Bill 1452 requires school districts to provide specified educational options for any student who did not meet the state standard on the third grade English Language Arts (ELA) assessment in the previous year, beginning in 2013-14; requires that students who score Below Basic on the third grade ELA assessment may not be promoted to fourth grade, unless they are exempt; provides for certain students to be exempt from the promotion standard, including if the parent or guardian does not concur with retaining the student in third grade; provides that the promotion standard takes effect in the school year when the first cohort of third grade students has had an opportunity to enroll in state funded all-day kindergarten and reduced kindergarten through third grade class sizes; and requires school districts to provide certain services and support before seeking the concurrence of a parent to retain a student in third grade.
Substitute House Bill 1680 requires development of data collection standards for student disciplinary actions and collection of data based on the new standards beginning in 2015-16; prohibits exclusion of a student from school for a disciplinary action made at the discretion of the school district; incorporates cultural competence into training on revised evaluation systems; requires development of a content outline for cultural competence training for all school staff; expands a conditional teacher scholarship program to include teachers seeking endorsements in Bilingual Education or English Language Learner (ELL); requires that teachers assigned to the Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program (TBIP) be endorsed in Bilingual Education or the ELL beginning in 2017-18; requires development of a performance-based accountability system for the TBIP; requires collection of student data disaggregated by sub-racial and sub-ethnic categories beginning in 2015-16; and directs design of an articulated pathway for teacher preparation, from paraeducator certificates through teacher certification.
Substitute House Bill 1692 provides that an increase in instructional hours under Basic Education takes effect in 2014-15, and adds a new funding allocation to the prototypical school funding formula to support the increase; authorizes the State Board of Education to implement the 24-credit graduation requirement framework adopted by resolution on November 10, 2010, to take effect with the freshman class of 2015-16; increases allocations for guidance counselors and family engagement coordinators in the prototypical school funding formula; increases the funding allocations for middle and high school students in the Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program (TBIP) and adds a new allocation to provide support for students who have exited the TBIP in the previous two years; and increases the funding allocation for the Learning Assistance Program (LAP) and establishes new program requirements for school districts receiving the LAP funds.
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