Bill Text: OH HB555 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: ; and to amend Section 267.10.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to create a new academic performance rating system for public schools; to require an alternative rating system for community schools with dropout prevention and recovery programs; to create a new evaluation process for community school sponsors; to abolish the Ohio Accountability Task Force to make changes in the third grade reading guarantee; to modify the procedure for approving the opening of new Internet- or computer-based community schools; to make changes in the War Orphans Scholarship and Ohio National Guard Scholarship programs; and to make other changes to education laws.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-22 - Effective Date [HB555 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2011-HB555-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

129th General Assembly Regular Session 2011-2012

H. B. No. 555

Representatives Stebelton, Butler 

Cosponsors: Representatives Amstutz, Grossman, Hayes, Huffman, McClain, Roegner, Thompson 

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A BILL

To revise the current academic performance ratings

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system for public schools with a system under

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which districts and schools are assigned letter

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grades.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1.  It is the General Assembly's intent that by	5
December 31, 2012, sections of the Revised Code be amended,	6
enacted, or repealed to revise the current academic performance	7
rating system for school districts, individual buildings of	8
districts, community schools, and STEM schools and to implement a	9
rating system using letter grades, thereby improving the quality	10
of education outcomes for all students and to provide a clearer	11
indication of how schools and districts are performing. The system	12
shall be designed to show how schools and districts are closing	13
achievement gaps, providing all students with academic growth,	14
encouraging high graduation rates, improving dropout recovery and	15
prevention, and providing student achievement benchmarks for	16
annual measureable objectives applicable to student subgroups as	17
defined in division (C)(3) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code,	18
and shall include measures of college and career-readiness.	19