Bill Text: IN SB0416 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School evaluations; reading plans.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-21 - Committee report: amend do pass, adopted [SB0416 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-SB0416-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-31.
Synopsis: School evaluations. Voids the administrative rule that
establishes the A through F designations of school performance.
Requires the state board of education (state board) to establish new
designations of school improvement that: (1) are based on the
measurement of student growth as compared against established
standard criteria; and (2) are not based on the measurement of student
growth compared against peers. Provides that before the state board
may begin the rulemaking process to establish new categories or
designations of school performance, the state board shall report to the
general assembly the proposed new categories or designations.
Provides that the state board may adopt emergency rules to establish
temporary categories or designations.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
February 21, 2013, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
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(b) The state board shall establish new categories or designations of school improvement under the requirements of this chapter to replace 511 IAC 6.2-6. The new standards of assessing school improvement:
(1) must be based on the measurement of student growth compared with established standard criteria; and
(2) may not be based on the measurement of student growth compared with peers.
(c) Before beginning the rulemaking process to establish new categories or designations of school improvement, the state board shall report to the general assembly the proposed new categories or designations in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.
(d) The state board:
(1) shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2; and
(2) may adopt emergency rules in the manner provided in IC 4-22-2-37.1;
to implement this chapter.
(e) This section expires December 31, 2016.
