Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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SUMMARY: LC 33 6871 LC 336968S HB 338/AP
- A Chief Turnaround Officer
(CTO) would be appointed by the State Board and report directly to them.
- The CTO will recommend
personnel to serve as turnaround coaches for State Board approval.
The coaches will assist schools identified as in the greatest need
of help with ongoing assistance and input.
- Coaches will be assigned to
one or more schools and shall assist in creating local collaborations to
address personal and community conditions impacting student achievement.
- The schools will be
identified based on the number of years they have received "an
unacceptable rating and any other factors deemed appropriate by the Chief
Turnaround Officer."
- Local boards can amend their
flexibility contracts to agree to receive assistance from the state.
Otherwise, the State Board has up to 60 days to implement one or
more of the interventions in current law.
- Local boards that have no
flexibility contract can sign an intervention contract to agree to receive
assistance or the State Board will immediately implement one or more of
the interventions in current law.
- Within 90 days of entering
into the contract, a turnaround coach, RESA personnel, and possibly a
third party provider shall conduct a comprehensive evaluation, make
recommendations, and help develop an intensive school improvement plan.
- After 2 years, if the school
is not improving, there are ten possible interventions including
continuing the implementation of the plan.
- Before the implementation of
any intervention, the local board can request a hearing before the State
Board to show why the proposed intervention should not be implemented or
that an alternative is better.
- An Education Turnaround
Advisory Council would report to the State Board their recommendations on
the qualifications and method of identifying and selecting the CTO.
They could also submit names of potential candidates for CTO and
turnaround coaches. The Council would be made up of the executive
directors or their designee(s) of GSBA, GSSA, PAGE, GAE, and the President
of Georgia PTA.
- A Joint Study Committee on
the Establishment of a State Accreditation Process is also created in the
bill. The Committee shall also consider the possibility of
establishing a school board review commission.
- After five or more
consecutive years of one-half or more of a district's schools receiving an
unacceptable rating, the school board can be removed using the same
procedures as are currently in place using the accreditation status as the
trigger. If the local board is under a contract amendment or
intervention contract and is in substantial compliance with the contract,
this is stayed.
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