Bill Text: IN SB0258 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Reading skills.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-02-18 - Representative Noe added as cosponsor [SB0258 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-SB0258-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-20; IC 20-32.
Synopsis: Reading skills. Requires additional information concerning
ISTEP performance and student retention be included on a school
corporation's annual performance report. Requires schools to give
priority in the allocation of resources to remediation programs to
students who are deficient in reading skills in kindergarten through
grade 3. Requires the state superintendent of public instruction in
conjunction with the state board of education to develop a plan to
improve reading skills of students. Provides that the plan must include
reading skill standards for grade 3, an emphasis on a method for
making determinant evaluations by grade 3 that might require remedial
action for the student, including retention, if reading skills are below
the standard, and the fiscal impact of each component of the plan.
Requires for any component of the plan that has a fiscal impact, that
the state superintendent present those components of the plan to the
general assembly to determine the amount of any appropriation in the
state budget for the state fiscal years beginning in 2011 and 2012.
Provides that to the extent a component of the plan does not have a
fiscal impact, that component of the plan may be implemented after the
state board holds a public hearing at which there is full public
discussion and review by the state board. Permits the state board to
adopt rules to carry out the plan.
Effective: July 1, 2010; July 1, 2012.
January 11, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
January 21, 2010, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass; reassigned to Committee on
Appropriations.
January 28, 2010, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
(1) Student enrollment.
(2) Graduation rate (as defined in IC 20-26-13-6).
(3) Attendance rate.
(4) The following test scores, including the number and percentage of students meeting academic standards:
(A) ISTEP program test scores.
(B) Program test scores for the reading portion of ISTEP.
(5) Average class size.
(6) The number and percentage of students in the following
groups or programs:
(A) Alternative education, if offered.
(B) Career and technical education.
(C) Special education.
(D) High ability.
(E) Remediation.
(F) Limited English language proficiency.
(G) Students receiving free or reduced price lunch under the
national school lunch program.
(H) School flex program, if offered.
(7) Advanced placement, including the following:
(A) For advanced placement tests, the percentage of students:
(i) scoring three (3), four (4), and five (5); and
(ii) taking the test.
(B) For the Scholastic Aptitude Test:
(i) test scores for all students taking the test;
(ii) test scores for students completing the academic honors
diploma program; and
(iii) the percentage of students taking the test.
(8) Course completion, including the number and percentage of
students completing the following programs:
(A) Academic honors diploma.
(B) Core 40 curriculum.
(C) Career and technical programs.
(9) The percentage of grade 8 students enrolled in algebra I.
(10) The percentage of graduates who pursue higher education.
(11) School safety, including:
(A) the number of students receiving suspension or expulsion
for the possession of alcohol, drugs, or weapons; and
(B) the number of incidents reported under IC 20-33-9.
(12) Financial information and various school cost factors,
including the following:
(A) Expenditures per pupil.
(B) Average teacher salary.
(C) Remediation funding.
(13) Technology accessibility and use of technology in
instruction.
(14) Interdistrict and intradistrict student mobility rates, if that
information is available.
(15) The number and percentage of each of the following within
the school corporation:
(A) Teachers who are certificated employees (as defined in
IC 20-29-2-4).
(B) Teachers who teach the subject area for which the teacher
is certified and holds a license.
(C) Teachers with national board certification.
(16) The percentage of grade 3 students reading at grade 3 level.
(17) The number of students expelled, including the number
participating in other recognized education programs during their
expulsion.
(18) Chronic absenteeism, which includes the number of students
who have been absent more than ten (10) days from school within
a school year without being excused.
(19) The number of students who have dropped out of school,
including the reasons for dropping out.
(20) The number of student work permits revoked.
(21) The number of student driver's licenses revoked.
(22) The number of students who have not advanced to grade 10
due to a lack of completed credits.
(23) The number of students suspended for any reason.
(24) The number of students receiving an international
baccalaureate diploma.
(25) Student retention information for each grade from
kindergarten through grade 10, including the number and
percentage of students retained in each grade.
(25) (26) Other indicators of performance as recommended by the
education roundtable under IC 20-19-4.
(1) give priority in the allocation of resources to students who are deficient in reading skills in kindergarten through grade 3;
(A) procedures for determining student eligibility for a program; and
(B) implementation of the program.
JULY 1, 2010]:
Chapter 8.5. Reading Deficiency Remediation Plan
Sec. 1. The state superintendent in conjunction with the state
board shall develop a plan to improve reading skills of students.
Sec. 2. The plan required by this chapter must include the
following:
(1) Reading skill standards for grade 3.
(2) An emphasis on a method for making determinant
evaluations by grade 3 that might require remedial action for
the student, including retention, if reading skills are below the
standard.
(3) The fiscal impact of each component of the plan, if any.
Sec. 3. (a) For any component of the plan that has a fiscal
impact, the state superintendent shall present those components of
the plan to the general assembly:
(1) for consideration of the plan; and
(2) to determine the amount of any appropriation in the state
budget for the state fiscal years beginning in 2011 and 2012
that is necessary to carry out the plan.
(b) To the extent a component of the plan does not have a fiscal
impact, that component of the plan may be implemented after the
board holds a public hearing at which there is full public discussion
and review by the board.
Sec. 4. The state board may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to
carry out this chapter.
