LRB-1158/3
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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hynek, BB0378 - School report cards
For 2013-2015 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
This bill directs DPI, annually by June 30, to publish a school and school district accountability report that includes the following components:
1. Multiple measures to determine performance, including pupil achievement and growth in reading and mathematics; measures of college and career readiness; and gaps in pupil achievement and rates of graduation, categorized by race, English language proficiency, disability, and income.
2. An index system to identify a school's level of performance and annually place each school into one of five performance categories.
Within one year after an independent charter school, or a private school participating in a parental choice program, begins using the student information system established by DPI, DPI must include the school in its annual school accountability report.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 115.385 of the statutes is created to read:
115.385 School and school district accountability report. (1) Annually by June 30, the department shall publish a school and school district accountability report that includes all of the following components:
(a) Multiple measures to determine a school's performance or a school district's improvement, including all of the following:
1. Pupil achievement and growth in reading and mathematics.
2. Measures of college and career readiness for high school pupils and measures indicative of being on track for college and career readiness in the elementary grades.
3. Gaps in pupil achievement and rates of graduation, categorized by race, English language proficiency, disability, and income level.
(b) An index system to identify a school's level of performance and annually place each school into one of 5 performance categories.
(2) Beginning one year after a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r) or a private school participating in a parental choice program under s. 118.60 or 119.23 begins using the student information system under s. 115.28 (12) (b), or begins using a system that is interoperable with that system, the department shall include the school in its annual school accountability report under sub. (1).
****Note: Section 115.28 (12) is modified in 2013 LRB-0990 to include charter schools and choice schools.
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