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SB 168 (BR 1907) - G. Neal, E. Scorsone
AN ACT relating to reducing the achievement gaps in the public schools.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "achievement gap" as the difference in academic performance between male and female students, students with and without disabilities, students with and without English proficiency, students who are on free and reduced lunch and those who are not on free and reduced lunch, and minority and nonminority students on each of the tested areas by grade level of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System; require the Department of Education, by November 1 of each year, to provide each school council, or the principal if a school council does not exist, disaggregated data on its students' performance on the statewide test with an equity analysis on the achievement gap between the subpopulations of students; require each school council, by April 1 of each year, to review the data and revise the consolidated plan to include activities and a schedule to reduce the achievement gap among the subpopulations of students and submit the plan to the superintendent and the local board of education to be reviewed in a public meeting; require the local board to establish a policy for reviewing the academic performance on the state tests for the student subpopulations and to set a biennial target for reducing the achievement gaps; require a school that does not meet its biennial target to submit its consolidated plan for the use of the school's professional development and extended school services funds to the superintendent for approval; require a school that does not meet its target for two biennia be subject to intervention by the Department of Education; amend KRS 156.095 to include strategies to reduce the achievement gaps as an area for which professional development funds may be expended; amend KRS 158.805 to require that the Commonwealth school improvement fund be used during the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 school years for technical assistance to schools to reduce the achievement gaps among the various groups of students; amend KRS 160.340 to require the local board of education to adopt a policy requiring each school council to make an annual report describing the school's progress in meeting its goals, including its plan to reduce the achievement gaps; amend KRS 160.345 to conform.
SB 168 - AMENDMENTS
SCS - Retain the original provisions; make technical corrections.
HCS - Revise the original provisions to create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "achievement gap" as the substantive performance difference on each of the tested areas, by grade level, of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System between the various groups of students, including male and female students, students with and without disabilities, students with and without English proficiency, minority and nonminority students, and students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch and those who are not eligible for free and reduced lunch; require the Department of Education by November 1 in each year, to provide each school council, or principal if there is not a council, data on its students' performance as shown on the statewide tests; require each local board of education by December 1, 2002, to adopt a policy for reviewing the academic performance on the state assessments for the various groups of students; require the school-based decision making council, or the principal if there is not a council, by February 1, 2003, and each February 1 in odd-numbered years thereafter, with the involvement of parents, faculty, and staff, to set the school's biennial targets for eliminating any achievement gap and submit them to the superintendent for consideration; require the superintendent and the school council to agree on the targets before they are submitted to the local board of education for adoption; require the school council, or the principal, by April 1, 2003, and each April 1 in odd-numbered years thereafter, to review the desegregated data and revise the consolidated plan to include the biennial targets, strategies, activities, and a time schedule calculated to eliminate the achievement gap among the various groups of students; require the principal to convene a public meeting at the school to present and discuss the plan prior to submitting it to the superintendent and the local board of education for review; require the local board to determine if a school meets its targets; require revisions to the consolidated plan in the areas of professional development and extended school services by schools that do not meet their targets and submission to the superintendent for approval; require the superintendent to report schools that do not meet their targets after 4 years to the Commissioner of Education; amend KRS 158.805 to require that for the 2002-2004 biennium Commonwealth School Improvement Funds be spent to reduce the achievement gaps in schools not meeting their goals under the statewide accountability system; amend KRS 160.340 to require the local board of education to biennially review in a public meeting the portion of the schools' consolidated plan that sets forth the activities and schedule to reduce the achievement gaps among the various groups of students; amend KRS 156.095 and KRS 160. 345 to conform.
Feb 4-introduced in Senate
Feb 6-to Education (S)
Feb 13-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
Feb 14-2nd reading, to Rules
Feb 15-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Feb 19-3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute
Feb 20-received in House
Feb 21-to Education (H)
Feb 22-posted in committee
Mar 13-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
Mar 14-2nd reading, to Rules
Mar 21-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2002
Mar 22-3rd reading, passed 76-6 with Committee Substitute ; received in Senate
Apr 1-posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute for Monday, April 1, 2002; Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute ; passed 36-0
Apr 2-enrolled, signed by each presiding officer; delivered to Governor
Apr 9-signed by Governor (Acts ch. 302)
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