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EXPLANATION: $1.4 Million transfer from SDE School Value Added Instrument to EOC for value-added assessment system.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 1A,
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - EIA, page 329, after line 27, by
adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/ (SDE-EIA: Value-Added Assessment
System) In the current fiscal year, the Education Oversight
Committee is directed to procure a value-added assessment
system. The system shall calculate student growth and include
the measurement of magnitude or certainty of growth in
accordance with the requirements of the state and federal
accountability system as defined in Chapter 18 of Title 59.
The committee is hereby
authorized to administer this system statewide, which includes
training teachers, administrators and other relevant personnel
on the use of the system. The system procured by the committee
will replace any duplicative system utilized by the Department
of Education for the same purposes.
The committee is also hereby
directed to share all relevant data with the Revenue and Fiscal
Affairs Office, as a component of its longitudinal data system.
The committee, along with Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, is
directed to review how the value-added assessment system can be
used to assist colleges of education in achieving accreditation
and in improving the quality of teacher education programs and
future education funding decisions.
districts may use the
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 will be made available only to the
specific teacher, principal and superintendent.
All relevant data types
necessary for the release of the annual school and district
report cards will be transferred from the Department of
Education to the committee two weeks after receipt of data from
relevant assessment vendors (for the testing data elements).
Additionally, the department
shall provide the following non-assessment data related to the
prior school year to the committee by August 30 of the current
fiscal year: student enrollment with SUNS identifiers and
continuous enrollment indicators; list of schools that will
receive school report cards; and student enrollment in courses
by teacher.
The Department of Education,
for Fiscal Year 2019-20, shall transfer $1,400,000 appropriated
for School Value Added Instrument to the Education Oversight
Committee for the value-added assessment system./
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.