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
As Introduced
A BILL
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
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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Representatives Stebelton, Butler
Cosponsors:
Representatives Amstutz, Grossman, Hayes, Huffman, McClain, Roegner, Thompson
To revise the current academic performance ratings | 1 |
system for public schools with a system under | 2 |
which districts and schools are assigned letter | 3 |
grades. | 4 |
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enacted, or repealed to revise the current academic performance | 7 |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 |