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EXPLANATION: New proviso appropriating funds for the State and Federal Educational Accountability System.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 1a,
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - EIA, page 317, after line 27, by
adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/ (SDE: EIA Value-Added Accountability) With the funds
appropriated for School Value Added Instrument in the current
fiscal year the Department of Education shall use the education
value-added assessment system that was procured and administered
in the prior fiscal year to calculate the magnitude of student
progress or growth at the school level for purposes of state and
federal accountability. At the discretion of the local school
district, a district may use the education value-added
assessment system to evaluate classroom teachers using student
progress or growth. The estimates of specific teacher effects on
the educational progress of students will not be a public record
and shall be made available only to the specific teacher,
principal and superintendent. In the current fiscal year, the
Department of Education is directed to procure a value-added
assessment system, which calculates student growth and includes
the measurement of magnitude of growth, to be used in future
school years that meets the requirements of the state and
federal accountability system as defined in Chapter 18 of Title
59 of the 1976 Code. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.