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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
State
Department of Education (SDE)
The House Appropriations and Finance Committee amended
House Bill 212/aHEC to strike the appropriations, and on page 10 and 11 the
amendment strikes the “office of education accountability” and inserts “ the department of finance and administration and the
legislative finance committee”.
Synopsis
of Original Bill
According to SDE, the substantive amendments to HB 212/aHEC consist of permanent language changes incorporating references to diverse populations, temporary provisions dealing with budget requirements and appropriations to support the budget requirements.
HB212/aHEC relates to the system of public
education and proposes to enact systemic public school reforms with the goal of
success for all students in
The Legislative Education Study Committee
indicates that key provisions of HB 212
are:
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Enacts the Assessment and Accountability
Act, which complies with NCLB and focuses on adequate yearly progress of
students, schools, and school districts;
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Provides for measures to address the
federal requirements to achieve adequate yearly progress by standards-based
performance tests instead of norm-referenced tests;
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Implements a professional teacher
licensure structure that includes three levels of licensure, sets minimum
salary levels for teachers, and requires licensees to demonstrate continued
competency;
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Sets minimum salary levels for principals
based on school size by numbers of students in various increments;
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Changes various aspects of local
governance to move responsibilities from the local school board to the local
superintendent and school principals;
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Creates school councils to assist the
school principal and act as advocates for the students in the community;
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Enacts the Family and Youth Resource Act
to provide a mechanism for a quick response to social and economic problems
that restrict a student’s ability to achieve;
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Creates the Family and Youth Resource
Fund;
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Adds the Schools in Need of Improvement
Fund to assist schools not meeting adequate yearly progress ;
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Requires the State Board of Education to
adopt a formula for distribution of funds from the Incentives for School
Improvement Fund into two programs:
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Creates the Office of Education
Accountability in the Legislative Council Service to provide an independent
evaluation of the Accountability Data System; and
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Recompiles and reorganizes statutes into
a more accessible, coherent body of law.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Please refer to page 4
of the attachment that details the funding per subsection of the amended bill.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
Please refer to
attached analysis by the SDE.
DUPLICATION AND RELATIONSHIP
House Bill 212/a
duplicates SB-230 and relates to HB3
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
The State Department of Education provides a detailed analysis of House Bill 212/a as is attached. The analysis addresses the programmatic and fiscal impact if the legislation is enacted.