Bill Amendment: AZ HB2190 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Education omnibus
Status: 2016-05-18 - Chapter 331 [HB2190 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2016-HB2190-SENATE_PROPOSED_AMENDMENT_Education.html
Fifty-second Legislature Education
Second Regular Session H.B. 2190
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2190
(Reference to House engrossed bill)
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�Section 1. Section 15-101, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
15-101. Definitions
In this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Accommodation school" means either:
(a) A school that is operated through the county board of supervisors and the county school superintendent and that the county school superintendent administers to serve a military reservation or territory that is not included within the boundaries of a school district.
(b) A school that provides educational services to homeless children or alternative education programs as provided in section 15‑308, subsection B.
(c) A school that is established to serve a military reservation, the boundaries of which are coterminous with the boundaries of the military reservation on which the school is located.
2. "Assessed valuation" means the valuation derived by applying the applicable percentage as provided in title 42, chapter 15, article 1 to the full cash value or limited property value, whichever is applicable, of the property.
3. "Charter holder" means a person that enters into a charter with the state board for charter schools. For the purposes of this paragraph, "person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind.
4. "Charter school" means a public school established by contract with a district governing board, the state board of education, the state board for charter schools, a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, a community college district with enrollment of more than fifteen thousand full‑time equivalent students or a group of community college districts with a combined enrollment of more than fifteen thousand full‑time equivalent students pursuant to article 8 of this chapter to provide learning that will improve pupil achievement.
5. "Child with a disability" means a child with a disability as defined in section 15‑761.
6. "Class A bonds" means general obligation bonds approved by a vote of the qualified electors of a school district at an election held on or before December 31, 1998.
7. "Class B bonds" means general obligation bonds approved by a vote of the qualified electors of a school district at an election held from and after December 31, 1998.
8. "Competency" means a demonstrated ability in a skill at a specified performance level.
9. "Course" means organized subject matter in which instruction is offered within a given period of time and for which credit toward promotion, graduation or certification is usually given. A course consists of knowledge selected from a subject for instructional purposes in the schools.
10. "Course of study" means a list of required and optional subjects to be taught in the schools.
11. "Dual enrollment course" means a college level college-level course that is conducted on the campus of a high school or on the campus of a joint technical education district, that is applicable to an established community college academic degree or certificate program and that is transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. A dual enrollment course that is applicable to a community college occupational degree or certificate program may be transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents.
12. "Elementary grades" means kindergarten programs and grades one through eight.
13. "Fiscal year" means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30.
14. "Governing board" means a body organized for the government and management of the schools within a school district or a county school superintendent in the conduct of an accommodation school.
15. "Lease" means an agreement for conveyance and possession of real or personal property.
16. "Limited property value" means the value determined pursuant to title 42, chapter 13, article 7. Limited property value shall be used as the basis for assessing, fixing, determining and levying primary property taxes.
17. "Parent" means the natural or adoptive parent of a child or a person who has custody of a child.
18. "Person who has custody" means a parent or legal guardian of a child, a person to whom custody of the child has been given by order of a court or a person who stands in loco parentis to the child.
19. "Primary property taxes" means all ad valorem taxes except for secondary property taxes.
20. "Private school" means a nonpublic institution where instruction is imparted.
21. "School" or "public school" means any public institution established for the purposes of offering instruction to pupils in programs for preschool children with disabilities, kindergarten programs or any combination of elementary grades or secondary grades one through twelve.
22. "School district" means a political subdivision of this state with geographic boundaries organized for the purpose of the administration, support and maintenance of the public schools or an accommodation school.
23. "Secondary grades" means grades nine through twelve.
24. "Secondary property taxes" means ad valorem taxes used to pay the principal of and the interest and redemption charges on any bonded indebtedness or other lawful long‑term obligation issued or incurred for a specific purpose by a school district or a community college district and amounts levied pursuant to an election to exceed a budget, expenditure or tax limitation.
25. "Subject" means a division or field of organized knowledge, such as English or mathematics, or a selection from an organized body of knowledge for a course or teaching unit, such as the English novel or elementary algebra.�
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�Sec. 8. Section 15-552, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
15-552. Alternative teacher development program; report; program
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A. The state board of education shall establish an alternative teacher development program for the purpose of accelerating the process of identifying, training and placing highly qualified individuals into low income schools through the use of teaching intern certification and the identification of a qualified service provider.
B. The department of education shall develop application procedures, selection criteria and minimum performance standards for service providers that wish to participate in the program.
C. The state board of education shall award a matching grant to a service provider that meets all of the requirements of this section. The amount of the matching grant shall be equal to the matching monies raised by the service provider, not to exceed the total of monies appropriated to the alternative teacher development program. The service provider that receives the matching grant shall demonstrate that its alternative teacher development program serves public schools in this state and meets all of the following requirements:
1. Is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that has been providing alternative teacher recruitment and placement in this state for a period of not less than ten years.
2. Serves only public schools that provide instruction to student populations in which a majority of the students are from low income households.
3. Requires that individuals seeking to participate in the alternative teacher development program offered by the service provider have attained a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution.
4. Maintains a competitive application and selection process for individuals seeking to participate in the alternative teacher development program offered by the service provider.
5. Requires all individuals who participate in the alternative teacher development program to commit to serve as a teacher in a low income public school in this state for not less than two years.
6. Provides ongoing support, evaluations and professional development to teachers placed in a classroom through the alternative teacher development program.
D. The service provider selected to participate in the alternative teacher development program shall annually report at least the following information to the department of education:
1. The number of teachers placed in low income schools by the service provider.
2. The number of students served by teachers placed in low income schools by the service provider.
3. Demographic data concerning the aggregate composition of students in classrooms served by teachers placed by the service provider.
4. A listing of the school districts and schools in which teachers were placed by the service provider.
5. CLASSROOM-LEVEL DATA COLLECTED BY THE SERVICE PROVIDER THAT DEMONSTRATES THE ACADEMIC PROGRESS OF STUDENTS INSTRUCTED BY TEACHERS PARTICIPATING IN THE ALTERNATIVE TEACHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
6. A DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF THE ONGOING SUPPORT, EVALUATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROVIDED TO PARTICIPATING TEACHERS.
7. the performance classifications of teachers participating in the alternative teacher development program pursuant to 15-537, as reported to the service provider by PARTICIPATING teachers.
5. 8. A total of all matching monies raised by the service provider.
E. The department of education shall submit an annual report by December 15 of each year concerning the alternative teacher development program to the governor, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives that includes an evaluation of the effectiveness of the program. The department of education shall provide a copy of the report to the secretary of state. The report shall include a comparison of the annual academic achievement gain of students served by teachers participating in the alternative teacher development program and students served by beginning teachers in the same school.
F. The program established by this section ends on July 1, 2020.�
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�Sec. 14. Retroactivity
Section 15-552, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, applies retroactively to from and after June 30, 2015.�
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