Senate Bill 311

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Senate Bill 311

• Lame Duck Legislation for School Leaders
• January 24, 2007

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Lame Duck

• Refers not only to officeholders but also to
  legislative sessions
• Has something to do with the inability to move
• Originally term for English stockbroker who could
  not meet his debts
• Term applied to politics in 1860s and became
  popular in early 20th century
• Reason for the 20th Amendment

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Senate Bill 311

• Adds four teachers appointed by governor to the
  Partnership for Continued Learning
• K-12 in a school district
• K-12 in a chartered, non-public school
• 9-12 in a career center
• Representative of comprehensive or compact
  career-technical school

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Partnership for Continued Learning

• Recommendations for collaboration and maintaining
  a high-quality work force, due by 5/31/07, to
  include
• Expanded opportunities for college credit while
  still enrolled in high school
• Legislative changes to improve post-secondary
  enrollment options and other dual enrollment
  programs
• Expansion of counseling services
• Legislative changes for waiving core

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Partnership for Continued Learning

• Recommend by 7/30/07 means of assessing high
  school student readiness for college or work
• To collaborate with regents and state board
• Consider suitability of existing state and
  commercial assessments
• Will describe how recommendations fit within
  existing achievement test system

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ODE and Board of Regents

• Shall propose by 4/30/09 a standard method and
  form for documenting on high school transcripts
  those credits compatible with standards for
  credit transfer
• State board will develop recommendations for the
  development of parental involvement policies

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State Board of Education

• Shall select by 6/30/2012 one or more methods of
  measuring preparedness for higher education and
  the workforce measures may include
• Performance on state assessments
• age earning college credits in high school
• age taking remedial coursework in college
• Results to be on district/school report cards
  beginning with 2012-13 report

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The Days to Hours Issue

• House version incorporated the provisions of
  House Bill 254 which had been in Senate Education
  Committee since February 2006
• Senate not interested in other education items
  being added to this bill
• Governor line item vetoed the days to hours issue
• Issue likely to return in 127th GA

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Graduation Requirements(for students entering
high school after 7/1/10)

• English (4 units)
• Health (1/2 unit)
• Mathematics (4 units)
• One unit must be Algebra II or the equivalent of
  Algebra II.
• Physical Education (1/2 unit) maybe
• Science (3 credits)
• Inquiry-based, laboratory experience
• Physical science, biology, advanced study

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Graduation Requirements(for students entering
high school after 7/1/10)

• The science requirement
• Advanced study (3rd year) could include
• Chemistry, physics, or other physical science
• Advanced biology or other life science
• Astronomy, physical geology, or other earth/space
  science
• How many hours for inquiry-based lab?
• ORC 3313.603 says lab courses are 150 hours
• LSC says it is not clear that lab experience
  requires 150 hours rather than 120

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Graduation Requirements(for students entering
high school after 7/1/10)

• Social studies (3 units)
• Includes ½ unit in American history and ½ unit in
  American government
• Integrate study of economics and financial
  literacy into social studies or another class
• Every student must receive this instruction
• Schools shall use available public-private
  partnerships and resources and materials that
  exist in private sector or economics centers

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Graduation Requirements(for students entering
high school after 7/1/10)

• Electives (5 units)
• Foreign language
• Fine arts
• Business, career tech, agriculture
• Technology
• Family and consumer sciences
• Classes in English, math, science, or social
  studies not otherwise required

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The Foreign Language Issue

• Originally core was to require 2 credits
• Now creates a Foreign Language Advisory Board to
  submit plan by 12/31/07
• Facilitate a K-12 program in districts
• Identify best practices
• Describe multiple course delivery models
• Define proficiency-based means for earning
  credits
• Implementation by 2014-15 school year

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Opting Out

• Applied only to students entering high school
  after 7/1/10 and before 7/1/14
• Student cannot opt out during first two years of
  high school
• Student still must complete the existing
  graduation requirements (prior to core)
• Parent must sign consent statement, and parties
  must agree to a career plan
• Student may not enter public 4-year campus

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Opting Out

• Student and parent must fulfill any procedural
  requirements the school stipulates
• Individual career plan specifies the student
  matriculating to a two-year degree program,
  acquiring a business and industry credential, or
  entering an apprenticeship
• School will provide counseling and support for
  the student related to the plan
• District may adopt policy of no opt out

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Opting Out

• PCL (in collaboration with ODE and BOR) must
  report by 8/1/14 if opting out should continue
  for those entering high school after 7/1/14
• School districts may adopt more rigorous
  curriculum than core or may require an opt out
  curriculum with more requirements than current
  minimums

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Credit below 9th Grade

• As now, high school may grant credit for courses
  below 9th grade if
• Taught by properly licensed individual
• Designated by board as meeting high school
  curriculum requirements
• But now must be recorded as taken below 9th grade
  on high school transcript

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Competency vs. Hours

• SBE, in conjunction with BOR and PCL, to adopt by
  3/31/09 statewide plan for implementing methods
  for students to earn credit based on subject
  area competency, instead of or in combination
  with completing hours of classroom instruction.
• Plan to phase in during the 2009-2010 school
  year

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Competency vs. Hours

• Plan must include standard method for recording
  proficiency on transcripts
• All school districts shall comply with the plan
  and award credits accordingly
• State board may adopt such a plan prior to
  2009-2010 school year
• Districts must accept if SBE does earlier adoption

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Fine Arts Requirement

• Does not apply to students opting out or in a
  drop out prevention and recovery program
• Does not apply to students pursuing a
  career-technical instructional program as
  determined by the school district board of
  education
• However, GA encourages students to consider
  enrolling in a fine arts course

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Fine Arts Requirement

• Students entering 9th grade after 7/1/10 shall
  complete two semesters or the equivalent of
  fine arts to graduate
• Coursework could be in grades 7-12
• Courses taught by properly licensed teachers in
  grades 7-8 could count toward high school credit
  as 1 of the 5 electives
• Otherwise, courses count toward the 2 semester
  fine arts requirement

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The Physical Education Excuse

• No mention of applying to students entering 9th
  grade after 7/1/10
• Board may adopt policy excusing student from
  physical education requirement if student has
  participated in at least 2 full seasons of
  interscholastic athletics, marching band, or
  cheerleading
• Instead, student will take ½ credit in another
  course of study
• Will be a topic for the 127th General Assembly

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Dual Enrollment Programs

• School districts shall offer opportunity to
  participate in dual enrollment in 9-12
• Could be post-secondary enrollment options
• May offer another program defined by PCL
• Career-technology centers must offer another
  program defined by PCL to students in good
  standing
• Districts must offer information about available
  dual enrollment programs to all students in
  grades 8-11

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Notification

• District board, by resolution, must adopt
  procedure for notifying parents of consequences
  of not enrolling in core
• District board also responsible for notification
  for career-technology students
• Does not create a new cause of action or
  substantive legal right

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Diplomas

• Honors diploma cannot be awarded to student who
  opts out
• State board rules for honor diploma may grant
  honors diploma recognizing technical expertise
  for a career-technical student

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Contract Issue

• If district offers courses taught outside the
  normal school day, board must enter into
  supplemental contracts
• Shall not include such assignment of duties
  within regular employment contracts
• What about existing (and future) collective
  bargaining agreements?

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Teacher Quality Issues

• Teacher Quality Partnership shall study
  relationship of teacher performance on educator
  license assessments to teacher effectiveness in
  classroom
• Must submit annual reports, along with any other
  data on teacher effectiveness, beginning not
  later than 9/1/08

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Advanced Placement Issues

• Articulation and transfer advisory council of BOR
  will recommend by 4/15/08 standards for awarding
  college credit based on AP scores
• Upon adoption by BOR, each state IHE will comply
  with the standards in awarding college credit
• No stated deadline for BOR action

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College Admission

• Beginning with 2014-2015 academic year, each
  state university (with 3 exceptions) will enroll
  students at main campus only if they have
  completed core curriculum unless student
• Has completed 10 semester hours of credit through
  PSEO or other dual enrollment
• Has completed IEP
• Is home schooler demonstrating mastery

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College Admission

• University may still delay admission, or admit
  conditionally, student completing core if
  university determines student requires academic
  remedial or developmental coursework
• University may make admission conditional or
  pending based on students completing courses at
  branch, community college, or technical college
• If PCL misses the 5/31/07 deadline for PSEO
  recommendations, universities must offer at least
  1 science and 1 math class by internet or IVDL
  for both high school and college credit

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The Appropriations

• 16.8 million for FY 2007 to be administered by
  ODE for
• Building teacher capacity
• Recruiting and retraining teachers
• Providing intervention services to students
• Other related purposes
• ODE to consult with PCL on procedures
• GA intends to fund at 16.8 million from FY
  2008 through FY2012