Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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Under current law, schools are provided with a single letter grade that reflects their performance in multiple academic performance indicators. This bill modifies annual achievement profiles to include an educational dashboard and requires ADE to compile these profiles by November 1st of each year. The dashboard assigns A-F letter grades on multiple academic and educational performance indicators, which then go towards providing an overall letter grade. ADE is also required to determine the criteria for each school and LEA classification on each performance indicator of the annual achievement profile. The bill also creates or alters the following indicators: Requires the indicator for the academic progress on achievement assessments in English language arts and mathematics to take locally procured (i.e. “menu”) assessments into account. Creates an indicator for overall academic progress on locally procured achievement assessments.
Creates an indicator for multiple measures of educational performance or other relevant indicators of school quality that assess its educational impact. Things such as graduation rates and attendance rates will be a part of this indicators calculation. Exempts schools and districts from having a performance indicator factor into their overall grade if they do not have a high enough n-count for that indicator. Requires that ADE establish a deadline for when requests by an LEA or school to correct student data can be submitted. If a correction is required, then ADE must notify the school or LEA of the data correction process.
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