STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1186	By:	Sears and Martin (Scott) of the House

				and

		Myers and Jolley of the Senate

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to schools; amending 70 O.S. 2001, Section 1210.569, as amended by Section 27, Chapter 434, O.S.L. 2003 (70 O.S. Supp. 2010, Section 1210.569), which relates to student needs assessments; modifying reporting requirements; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     70 O.S. 2001, Section 1210.569, as amended by Section 27, Chapter 434, O.S.L. 2003 (70 O.S. Supp. 2010, Section 1210.569), is amended to read as follows:
Section 1210.569  A.  Each school district shall be required to update and submit on an annual basis the student needs assessment and alternative education plan outlined in Section 1210.566 of this title.  The alternative education plan of each school district shall provide for specific professional development programs for the teachers teaching in or working with an alternative education program.  The annual needs assessment data shall be incorporated by the State Board of Education into an annual report which shall be submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Governor.  The report shall include a listing by school district of the number of students funded and the reported number of students served in an alternative education program.
B.  By July 1 of each year, each school district shall submit an expenditure report to the State Department of Education listing all of the expenditures made by the school district for the alternative education program for the previous year.
C.  Upon implementation of this subsection as provided for in subsections D and E of this section, each urban school district as defined in Section 1210.568 of this title and as identified by the State Department of Education as having a high population of elementary grade students who are at-risk and in need of alternative education shall expand the annual student needs assessment and alternative education plan as required in subsection A of this section to include a needs assessment and education plan for elementary students who are at-risk and in need of alternative education.
D.  Implementation of subsection C of this section shall be contingent upon the appropriation by the Legislature of state funds for the specific purpose of implementing subsection C of this section.  Nothing in this section shall prevent the State Board of Education or a school district board of education from utilizing private, local, or federal funds to implement subsection C of this section.
E.  Implementation of subsection C of this section shall be delayed until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least ninety percent (90%) of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided.  For purposes of this subsection, the regional average expenditure shall consist of the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for each of the following states:  Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, averaged together.  By January 1 of each year, the State Board of Education shall report, in either written or electronic form, whether or not the ninety-percent expenditure level has been reached based on information reported annually in the Digest of Education Statistics by the National Center for Education Statistics.  Subsection C of this section shall be implemented on July 1 after the first January 1 report verifies that the ninety-percent expenditure level has been reached and funds have been provided for the specific purposes of the section.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective September 1, 2011.

53-1-15185	MAT	01/13/11