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HB 53 (BR 1244) - P. Hatcher Jr, Dw. Butler, C. Geveden, J. Wayne
AN ACT relating to high school diplomas and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 158.140 to permit local school districts to award high school diplomas to students posthumously.
HB 53 - AMENDMENTS
HCS - Declare an emergency so schools may award diplomas to deceased students whose class will graduate this school year.
HCA (1/Title, F. Rasche) - Make title amendment.
SCS - Define accountability index as the combination of a school's academic and nonacademic factors; define core content for assessment and nonacademic factors; establish the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee as a permanent subcommittee of the Legislative Research Commission, to review administrative regulations relating to the state's assessment and accountability program and advise the Kentucky Board of Education in its planning and implementation; establish a process for reviewing these regulations; establish a fifteen-member School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council, appointed by the Governor from recommendations of various education interest groups, to include representatives of parents, teachers, superintendents, principals, local board members, district assessment coordinators, university professors, and a member at-large, to advise the state board and LRC on all issues related to setting academic standards, assessment, and accountability; establish the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability, made up of at least three professionals with a variety of expertise in education testing and measurement, contracted by LRC to advise the state board and LRC; amend statutes relating to administrative regulations to conform; make a conforming amendment to KRS 156.132 relating to the state board's removing school personnel from office; require the Kentucky Board of Education to revise the Program of Studies to identify the common curriculum content tied to the goals, outcomes, and assessment program, and require distribution to schools and district; include on the student transcript assessment scores that are valid and reliable, as determined by the National Technical Panel; permit the local board to award a diploma indicating graduation with the high school class with which the student was expected to graduate; require the Kentucky Board of Education to seek the advice of the Council, the Technical Working Group, and the Review Subcommittee in designing the new assessment system; include the following components in the assessment program: a customized or commercially available norm-referenced test that matches Kentucky's core content and provides valid and reliable results for the individual student; open-response or multiple-choice items, or both, to assess student skills in reading, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts, humanities, and practical living and vocational studies, and an on-demand assessment of writing; writing portfolios consisting of samples of student work, performance assessment events for schools that have students enrolled in performing arts organizations sponsoring sanctioned events with an established protocol for adjudication; and a technically sound longitudinal comparison of the assessment results for the same students; require the assessments to measure core academic content, basic skills, and higher order skills that are grade appropriate, to provide valid and reliable school scores, and to minimize the time spent on assessment by teachers and students; require that any scores reported for individual students be valid and reliable; require the department to establish a plan for validation studies, including the relationship between the state assessment results and other indicators of improved academic achievement by students and the accuracy of school classifications; require the plan to be submitted each biennium and a report the second year to the LRC; require the results to be reported no later than September 15 of the following school year; require Kentucky teachers to have a significant role in the design of the new assessments; require the school district's continuous assessments to provide diagnostic information to improve instruction to meet the needs of individual students; require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish the components of a school report card, including factors related to student academic achievement, nonacademic achievement, and the school learning environment, including parent involvement.; report data by race, gender, and disability when appropriate; require schools to send the report card to parents and publish a summary for the district in the newspaper; require the board to establish the new accountability system, after receiving advice from the Office of Education Accountability, the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council, and the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability; delete the current requirements concerning the accountability system and its consequences; include the following consequences: a scholastic audit; school improvement plans; eligibility to receive Commonwealth school improvement funds, education assistance from highly skilled certified staff, evaluation of school personnel; and student transfer to successful schools; require the state board, after seeking advice, to establish a formula for school accountability with an improvement goal set for each school for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 school years, using the academic and nonacademic components that are administered consistently during the four-year period; reward schools that exceed their thresholds and have a dropout rate below 8%, and conduct a scholastic audit of schools identified by the board as failing to improve, to determine whether to assign highly skilled education assistance that is advisory; require schools failing to improve to develop a school improvement plan, and thus be eligible for school improvement funds; eliminate the district accountability system; make changes to the Commonwealth School Improvement Fund to conform; eliminate all the powers and duties of the distinguished educators and the recognition component of the program; require the Department of Education to seek advice from the Office of Education Accountability, the School Curriculum, Assessment and Accountability Council, and the National Technical Panel prior to adopting administrative regulations for providing highly skilled education assistance to school districts; authorize professional leave of absence for certified employees; amend KRS 161.790 to conform; close out the accountability cycle by administering the 1997-98 KIRIS as designed; distribute $27 million in rewards, with schools exceeding their baseline at the end of accountability cycle 3 to receive an amount determined by the board, and schools exceeding their thresholds to receive twice that amount; pay the award to staff, unless a majority of the staff decide otherwise; require schools failing to reach their improvement goal to develop a school improvement plan and make them eligible for school improvement funds; permit schools classified "in decline" or "in crisis" to request the assistance of a distinguished educator to act solely in an advisory capacity; permit parents of children attending schools "in crisis" to transfer to a successful school; transfer $3 million to the School Improvement Fund; require outstanding Cycle II rewards to be distributed; EMERGENCY.
SCA (1/Title, T. Shaughnessy) - Make title amendment.
SFA (2, N. Kafoglis) - Require open-response and multiple choice items in the assessment program.
SFA (3, N. Kafoglis) - Require the Kentucky Board of Education, by September 1, 1998, to file a notice of intent to promulgate an administrative regulation which reduces the teacher and student time involved in preparing a writing portfolio.
SFA (4, N. Kafoglis) - Require the Department of Education's biennial plan for validation studies to include the consistency of student results across multiple measures; the congruence of school scores with documented improvements in instructional practice and the school learning environment, and the potential for all scores to yield fair, consistent, and accurate student performance level and school accountability decisions.
SFA (5, N. Kafoglis) - Require that scholastic audits include a review of school quality indicators, including how well the school curriculum aligns with goals, expectations, and core content; the level of professional development aimed at improving instruction; the utilization of technology for learning; and the management of instructional resources; and require a review of the school's efforts to address barriers to learning; make technical corrections to conform.
SFA (6, N. Kafoglis) - Name the statewide assessment program the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System.
SFA (7, N. Kafoglis) - Declare the classification of schools as "in crisis" or "in decline" to be void.
SFA (8, G. Williams) - Require the state assessment program to include a commercially available norm-referenced or standards-based test and delete option for a customized test; emphasize that the school is the unit of measure for the accountability index; prohibit the use of writing or mathematics portfolio scores in the calculation of the accountability index; delete requirement that the rewards under the accountability system are to be distributed to successful schools for school purposes; delete the accountability system for the 1998-2000 school years, including the rewards and assistance; prohibit personnel evaluation as a duty of those providing highly skilled education assistance; eliminate the writing portfolio as a component of the 1997-98 assessment program; prohibit the Kentucky Board of Education from making a determination of school success, dispensing rewards, or applying sanctions to schools or districts based on any assessment administered during the 1996-1998 biennium; void all school classifications based on data obtained prior to the 1998-99 school year; prohibit the use of academic assessment data from school years prior to 1998-99 in the new assessment and accountability system; permit a distinguished educator assigned to a school during the 1997-98 school year to continue in an advisory capacity until the end of the school year; offer schools that were "in decline" or "in crisis" during the 1996-98 biennium highly skilled education assistance and allow them to apply for Commonwealth school improvement funds; distribute a school improvement award to every school in 1997-98 to be paid to the certified staff, unless a majority votes otherwise.
SFA (9, G. Williams) - Attach provisions of the Senate Committee Substitute with the following changes: require the state assessment program to include a commercially available norm-referenced or standards-based test and delete option for a customized test; emphasize that the school is the unit of measure for the accountability index; prohibit the use of writing or mathematics portfolio scores in the calculation of the accountability index; delete requirement that the rewards under the accountability system are to be distributed to successful schools for school purposes; delete the accountability system for the 1998-2000 school years, including the rewards and assistance; prohibit personnel evaluation as a duty of those providing highly skilled education assistance; eliminate the writing portfolio as a component of the 1997-98 assessment program; prohibit the Kentucky Board of Education from making a determination of school success, dispensing rewards, or applying sanctions to schools or districts based on any assessment administered during the 1996-1998 biennium; void all school classifications based on data obtained prior to the 1998-99 school year; prohibit the use of academic assessment data from school years prior to 1998-99 in the new assessment and accountability system; permit a distinguished educator assigned to a school during the 1997-98 school year to continue in an advisory capacity until the end of the school year; offer schools that were "in decline" or "in crisis" during the 1996-98 biennium highly skilled education assistance and allow them to apply for Commonwealth school improvement funds; distribute a school improvement award to every school in 1997-98 to be paid to the certified staff, unless a majority votes otherwise.
SFA (10, J. Pendleton) - Amend various sections to provide for review of administrative regulations governing implementation of the state system for assessment and accountability by the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee, the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee, and the interim or standing committees on education.
SFA (11, N. Kafoglis) - Name the statewide assessment program the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System; require the Kentucky Board of Education, by September 1, 1998, to file a notice of intent to promulgate an administrative regulation reducing the teacher and student time involved in preparing a writing portfolio; require the Department of Education's biennial plan for validation studies to include the consistency of student results across multiple measures, the congruence of school scores with documented improvements in instructional practice and the school learning environment, and the potential for all scores to yield fair, consistent, and accurate student performance level and school accountability decisions; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to establish a system of district accountability; require the Department of Education to provide quarterly reports to the Interim Joint Committee on Education concerning its plan for implementing the state assessment and accountability system; permit schools in which the proportion of successful students declined in the 1996-98 school years to request highly skilled education assistance for advisory purposes; reclassify schools designated as "in crisis" based on data obtained in Accountability Cycle 2 or 3 as "in decline"; permit parents of students attending a school that would have been classified "in crisis" to request to transfer their children to another school.
SFA (12, L. Casebier) - Clarify that the assessments are designed to measure grade appropriate core academic content, basic skills, and higher order thinking skills and their application; clarify that the assessment measures the core content for assessment used by the Department of Education in 1997-98; require the state board to identify reports, paperwork, and administrative regulations from which high performing schools are exempt; require the state board to annually review the paperwork requirements for schools receiving highly skilled certified education assistance to assure that the requirements are minimal and directly related to improving teaching and learning.
SFA (13, T. Shaughnessy) - Add two members representing business and industry to the Council on Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability; amend KRS 160.350 to remove a reference to distinguished educators; provide the 1996-98 accountability cycle reward funds to the certified staff assigned to the school, as opposed to the instructional staff assigned to the school; and make technical corrections concerning the transfer of funds from the Kentucky successful schools trust fund.
(Prefiled by the sponsor(s).)
Jan 6-introduced in House
Jan 7-to Education (H)
Jan 12-posted in committee
Jan 14-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
Jan 15-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for January 16, 1998
Jan 16-3rd reading, passed 88-0 with Committee Substitute and Committee Title Amendment
Jan 20-received in Senate
Jan 21-to Education (S)
Mar 19-reported without opinion with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1) ; to Calendar
Mar 20-floor amendments (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) and (8) filed to Committee Substitute; 2nd reading, to Rules; floor amendment (9) filed to bill
Mar 23-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for March 25, 1998; floor amendment (10) filed to Committee Substitute
Mar 24-floor amendments (11) (12) and (13) filed to Committee Substitute
Mar 25-3rd reading,; floor amendments (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (9) and (10) withdrawn; floor amendment (8) defeated; passed 24-14 with Committee Substitute, floor amendments (11) (12) and (13) and committee amendment (1-title)
Mar 26-received in House; posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title), floor amendments (11) (12) and (13)
Apr 1-House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute, Senate floor amendments (11) (12) and (13) and Senate committee amendment (1-title); passed 90-6
Apr 2-enrolled, signed by each presiding officer, delivered to Governor
Apr 14-signed by Governor
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