Legislative Update

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Legislative Update

• State Support Team Region 14 Administrative
  Retreat
• Presentation by BASA
• August 5, 2014

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HB 362 Teacher Evaluation Changes

• Bill began as SB 227 will be effective on
  September 11, 2014
• The BASA goal was to provide as much local
  decision-making as possible. Note the use of the
  word may.
• School district may choose to evaluate teacher
  who received "accomplished" rating on the
  teacher's most recent evaluation once every three
  years, if teacher's student academic growth
  measure is "average" or higher.
• School district may choose to evaluate teacher
  who received skilled" rating on the teacher's
  most recent evaluation once every two years, if
  teacher's student academic growth measure is
  "average" or higher.

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HB 362 Teacher Evaluation Changes

• However, in any year when teacher is not
  evaluated because of rating, teacher must still
  receive an observation and a conference
• Beginning in 2014-2015, district may choose not
  to evaluate teacher who was on leave for 50 of
  more of school year or whose retirement was
  accepted not later than December 1
• Current requirement for framework performance
  and growth
• Two observations and walkthroughs except for
  accomplished teacher who could have only one if
  teacher completes project that has been approved
  by the board to demonstrate the continued growth
  and practice at the accomplished level
• Student academic growth must be 50 of evaluation

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HB 362 Teacher Evaluation Changes

• The alternative framework which a board may adopt
  beginning with 2014-2015 school year
• For 2014-2015 teacher performance (42.5)
  student academic growth (42.5) and one of four
  specified components (15)
• For 2015-2016 teacher performance (42.5-50)
  student academic growth (42.5-50) and one of
  four specified components (0-15)
• The 4 specified components student surveys
  teacher self-evaluations peer review
  evaluations and student portfolios
• Board decides which one of components to use
• ODE to compile list of approved instruments to
  measure a specified component

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College Credit Plus (in HB 487)

• Replaces PSEO, dual enrollment, seniors to
  sophomores, etc. beginning in 2015-2016
• Assumption what your district had last year, it
  still has
• 2014-2015 time to negotiate agreements if you
  can
• Two fundamental conditions for CCP
• 1. Student must be enrolled in both college and
  high school
• Will require at least for now a different
  procedure for career-tech students receiving
  articulated credits
• 2. Student must earn transcripted college and
  high school credit upon completion of course

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College Credit Plus (in HB 487)

• All public districts and public institutions of
  higher education (IHEs) must participate
• Nonpublic high schools and nonpublic IHEs may
  participate
• No eligible public student is denied
  participation through public IHE
• Each public high school must develop 2 pathways
  through CCP
• One for earning 15 transcripted credits and the
  other for earning 30 credits
• Must be developed in coordination with at least
  one participating IHE
• Must be published as part of school districts
  official course offerings

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College Credit Plus (in HB 487)

• Participating IHEs annually must
• Provide professional development for high school
  teachers instructing CCP course as adjunct
  instructors of IHE
• Conduct at least one observation of each section
  of each college course taught at high school by
  adjunct
• Assign an advisor to each CCP student
• Schedule at least one meeting between CCP student
  and advisor prior to no-fault drop out date
• CCP courses must be same as those offered on
  campus and apply toward a degree or professional
  certificate (not remedial)

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College Credit Plus (in HB 487)

• Participating IHEs and districts must
• Promote CCP opportunities on their websites
• Coordinate with each CCP program partner to
  present at least one dedicated CCP event to
  students and parents
• IHEs within 30 miles of high school must be
  invited to participate
• Students in grades 7 and 8 also eligible
  (information and counseling services to be
  provided to students in grades 6 through 11)
• Grades must be treated same as for any advanced
  standing course

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College Credit Plus (in HB 487)

• Funding per college credit based on per pupil
  funding amount times 83 idea is that no
  students tuition can exceed per pupil amount
• Both a floor and a ceiling
• FY 2015 example (5,800 X 83)/30 160, which
  becomes ceiling
• Floor is 25 of ceiling, or 40 per credit hour
• Students do not pay at public IHEs
• Districts and IHEs may negotiate amount between
  floor and ceiling
• Can negotiate amount below floor with approval of
  Chancellor
• Can include textbooks, fees, and other costs in
  negotiated agreement

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College Credit Plus (in HB 487)

• If no negotiated agreement, default is used
• Course taught on college campus by college
  faculty 160 per credit
• Course taught at high school by college faculty
  80 per credit
• Course taught at high school by high school
  teacher 40 per credit
• School district buys textbooks but IHE pays all
  other fees
• Negotiated agreement with private IHE can include
  student paying
• District to have deduct of at least floor amount
• Students may be charged up to 153, 125, or 100
  per credit hour depending on where course is
  offered and who is teaching
• However, economically disadvantaged students may
  never be charged

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Third Grade Reading Guarantee (in HB 487)

• Starting 07/01/2015, student attending nonpublic
  school on EdChoice scholarship subject to
  retention provisions of TGRG
• Individual services plan could exempt student
  from retention just like IEP/504
• Individual services plan reviewed by either
  district of residence or attendance
• Nonpublic schools to provide same notification,
  intervention , and reporting as are required of
  public schools
• English language arts assessment in grade 3
• Fall will be same assessment used in previous
  school year
• Spring will be same assessment used in previous
  school year if student subject to retention
  otherwise, it will be the PARCC assessment
• Alternative staffing plans permitted for 2014-15
  and 2015-16

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Career Readiness (in HB 487)

• Each school district must provide career-tech
  education for students enrolled in grades 7-12
• ODE must grant waiver if board of education
  adopts resolution of its intent not to provide by
  September 30 of that school year
• Beginning in 2015-16, each board to adopt policy
  on career advising
• Policy must be updated every two years
• District must post policy in a prominent
  location on its web site, if it has one

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Career Readiness (in HB 487)

• Policy on career advising must
• Provide students with grade-level examples
  linking school work to careers
• Create plan to provide career advising to
  students in grades 6-12
• Beginning in 2015-16, provide additional
  interventions/career advising to students
  identified as at risk of dropping out
• Train staff on how to advise students on career
  pathways, including training on using online
  tools
• Develop multiple, clear academic pathways
  through high school that students can choose to
  earn diploma
• Identify and publicize courses that award both
  academic and C-T credit
• Document the career advising provided to each
  student
• Prepare students for transition to
  post-secondary destinations

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Career Readiness (in HB 487)

• Student success plans beginning in 2015-16
• Students identified as at risk of dropping out
  using research based, locally developed plan
  developed with input from teachers and counselors
• Must address students academic pathway to
  graduation and the appropriate role of C-T
  education, competency based education, and
  experiential learning
• Must invite parent to assist in developing plan
• If parent does not participate, district must
  provide parent with copy of plan, statement on
  importance of a diploma, and academic pathways
  available for student to graduate
• Following development of plan, district must
  provide career advising
• ODE must post model policies on career advising
  and model student success plans by December 1,
  2014

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College and Work Ready Assessment System (in HB
487)

• College and Work Ready Assessment System (CWRAS)
  are the new high school assessments replaces the
  OGT
• Effective for students entering grade 9 on or
  after July 1, 2014
• OGT may not be administered to first time test
  takers after 7/1/2015
• ½ of CWRAS will be seven end-of-course (EOC)
  exams
• English language arts I and !!, physical science,
  Algebra !, geometry, American history, and
  American government
• Other half of CWRAS requires nationally
  standardized assessment that measures college and
  career readiness to be given to all 11th graders
  to include components in English, mathematics,
  science, and social studies and to be an
  assessment used for college admission

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College and Work Ready Assessment System (in HB
487)

• Student in AP, IB, or other advanced standing
  course required to take AP, IB, or advanced
  standing examination in lieu of EOC exams
• Student prohibited from taking substitute exam in
  English language arts I, II, Algebra or geometry
  must take EOC exams in those subjects
• State board may replace Algebra I EOC exam with
  Algebra II EOS exam for students entering 9th
  grade on or after July 1, 2016
• If Algebra II replaces Algebra I and student is
  enrolled in AP, IB, or advanced standing course
  for Algebra II, student must take the AP, IB, or
  advanced standing course exam
• Student who completed high school course for
  credit before 7/1/2014 exempt from EOC exam
  credit satisfied requirement to take EOC exam

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Graduation Requirements (in HB 487)

• Three paths to a diploma for students entering
  9th grade on or after July 1, 2014 (Class of
  2018)
• Score at remediation-free level in English,
  math, and reading on nationally standardized
  assessments
• Attain minimum cumulative performance score on
  EOC exams score to be set by state board of
  education
• Attain passing score on nationally recognized job
  skills assessment and obtain either industry
  recognized credential or state issued license
• Requires reimbursement by the state for costs of
  administering one nationally recognized job
  skills assessment
• Continues but makes changes in current curriculum
  exemption

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Privacy and Assessments (in HB 487)

• General prohibition on releasing student names
  addresses to any multi-state consortium offering
  summative assessments
• Data collected in administering assessments must
  be used for sole purpose of measuring and
  improving academic progress
• Various types of personal information may not be
  collected, tracked, housed with, reported to, or
  shared with any entity
• SSPI required to report by 1/15/2015 on
  recommendations for decreasing number of
  assessments to ensure testing is reasonable
• Committee to recommend by 1/15/2015
  recommendations on graduation and testing
  requirements for chartered, nonpublic schools

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Assessments (in HB 487)

• For 2014-15, districts cannot be required to
  administer assessments in online format
• District may administer in combination of online
  and paper formats
• ODE must furnish for free all assessments
  regardless of format
• After spring administration in 2014-15 and by
  7/1/2015, questions and preferred answer on
  grades 3-8 tests and EOC exams to be public
  records within three years of their
  administration
• Release schedule 40 20 40

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Safe Harbor (in HB 487)

• Report card ratings for 2014-15 cant be used for
  following sanctions
• School restructuring provisions (except for NCLB)
• Provisions for academic distress commissions
• Educational Choice Scholarship program
  eligibility
• Provisions defining challenged school districts
• Community school closing provisions
• State board permitted to decide not to assign
  individual grade for six components of report
  card for 2014-15 only
• Permits (but not requires) district to enter into
  MOU to stipulate that value-added progress will
  not be used for employment decisions

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Extracurricular Participation (in HB 487)

• Students in community (or STEM) school must be
  afforded right to participate in extracurricular
  activities at school where they would be assigned
  in resident school district
• Nonresident student from community school may be
  afforded participation if
• Community/STEM school does not offer that
  activity
• Activity is not interscholastic athletics or
  interscholastic contests or competition
• Cannot require community school student to enroll
  in 1 academic course as condition to participate
• Cannot impose additional rules on community
  school student that do not apply to other
  students participating in same activity

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Emergency Management Plans (in HB 487)

• Emergency management plans (formerly school
  safety plans)
• Must include floor plan, site plan, and emergency
  contact information (in addition to currently
  required protocols for threats and emergency
  events)
• Must be annually reviewed as well as updated
  every three years
• Annual emergency management test defined as
  regularly scheduled drill, exercise, or activity
  designed to assess and evaluate emergency plan
• Administrators amenable to disciplinary action
  related to licensure for failure to comply
• ODE to provide standardized forms for emergency
  management plans

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Miscellaneous (in HB 487)

• Resident educator and alternative resident
  educator will be renewable under rules to be
  adopted by state board
• GED test eligibility (without superintendent
  approval)
• 18 year old may take GED if withdrawn and not
  high school graduate
• 16 and 17 year old may apply with parental or
  court officials permission
• Gifted student reporting
• Expenditure of gifted student identification
  funds
• Services provided to gifted students can only
  include those paid by school district (with
  exception of AP and IB testing)
• Energy conservation (HB 264) projects will use
  competitive selection if district elects not to
  use general bidding requirements

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Miscellaneous (in HB 487)

• States that a district board is sole authority in
  determining and selecting textbooks, reading
  lists, instructional materials, and academic
  curriculum for its schools.
• Board of education must establish parental
  advisory committee, or another method for review,
  to provide opportunity for parents to review
  selection of textbooks and reading lists,
  instructional materials, and the academic
  curriculum used by schools in district.
• Allows district board to permit educators to
  create instructional materials, including
  textbooks, consistent with board-adopted
  curriculum.

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On the Horizon

• Average daily membership calculation
• HB 597 Repeal of the Common Core
• The Massachusetts Comparison over 7 year period
  after revising standards, doubled funding for
  education per pupil expenditure for 2012-13 was
  16,742 compared to Ohios 11,313
• What would standards be for 2014-15?
• The budget for FY 2016 and FY 2017
• School funding caps and guarantees
• High poverty districts