House of Representatives
State of Utah
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P.O. BOX 145030 . SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84114-5030 . (801) 538-1029 March 1, 2011
Madam Speaker:
The Education Committee reports a favorable recommendation on H.B. 313, CHARTER
SCHOOL FUNDING AMENDMENTS, by Representative M. Newbold, with the following amendments:
tests as benchmarks; and
Awareness Restricted Account created in Section
53A-1-304
in accordance with the
requirements of Section
53A-1-304
.
Respectfully,
Bill Wright
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Enrollment Growth Program;
. requires the state superintendent of public instruction to annually report on
the number of a school district's resident students enrolled in charter schools and
the school district's contribution of local property taxes per charter school
student;
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Utah Code Sections Affected:
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AMENDS:
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53A-1a-513, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2010, Chapters 3 and 399
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
53A-1-301
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Appointment -- Qualifications -- Duties.
(1) (a) The State Board of Education shall appoint a superintendent of public
instruction, hereinafter called the state superintendent, who is the executive officer of the
board and serves at the pleasure of the board.
(b) The board shall appoint the state superintendent on the basis of outstanding
professional qualifications.
(c) The state superintendent shall administer all programs assigned to the State
Board of Education in accordance with the policies and the standards established by the
board.
(2) The superintendent shall develop a statewide education strategy focusing on
core academics, including the development of:
(a) core curriculum and graduation requirements;
(b) a process to select instructional materials that best correlate to the core
curriculum and graduation requirements that are supported by generally accepted
scientific standards of evidence;
(c) professional development programs for teachers, superintendents, and
principals;
(d) remediation programs;
(e) a method for creating individual student learning targets, and a method of
measuring an individual student's performance toward those targets;
(f) progress-based assessments for ongoing performance evaluations of districts
and schools;
(g) incentives to achieve the desired outcome of individual student progress in
core academics, and which do not create disincentives for setting high goals for the
students;
(h) an annual report card for school and district performance, measuring learning
and reporting progress-based assessments;
(i) a systematic method to encourage innovation in schools and school districts as
they strive to achieve improvement in their performance; and
(j) a method for identifying and sharing best demonstrated practices across
districts and schools.
(3) The superintendent shall perform duties assigned by the board, including the
following:
(a) investigating all matters pertaining to the public schools;
(b) adopting and keeping an official seal to authenticate the superintendent's
official acts;
(c) holding and conducting meetings, seminars, and conferences on educational
topics;
(d) presenting to the governor and the Legislature each December a report of the
public school system for the preceding year to include:
(i) data on the general condition of the schools with recommendations considered
desirable for specific programs;
(ii) a complete statement of fund balances;
(iii) a complete statement of revenues by fund and source;
(iv) a complete statement of adjusted expenditures by fund, the status of bonded
indebtedness, the cost of new school plants, and school levies;
(v) a complete statement of state funds allocated to each school district and
charter school by source, including supplemental appropriations, and a complete
statement of expenditures by each school district and charter school, including
supplemental appropriations, by function and object as outlined in the U.S. Department of
Education publication "Financial Accounting for Local and State School Systems";
(vi) a complete statement, by school district and charter school, of the amount of
and percentage increase or decrease in expenditures from the previous year attributed to:
(A) wage increases, with expenditure data for base salary adjustments identified
separately from step and lane expenditures;
(B) medical and dental premium cost adjustments; and
(C) adjustments in the number of teachers and other staff;
(vii)
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(viii)
a statement that includes data on fall enrollments, average
membership, high school graduates, licensed and classified employees, pupil-teacher
ratios, average class sizes calculated in accordance with State Board of Education rules
adopted under Subsection
53A-3-602.5
(4), average salaries, applicable private school
data, and data from standardized norm-referenced tests in grades 5, 8, and 11 on each
school and district;
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(ix)
statistical information regarding incidents of delinquent
activity in the schools or at school-related activities with separate categories for:
(A) alcohol and drug abuse;
(B) weapon possession;
(C) assaults; and
(D) arson;
(ix)
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(x)
information about:
(A) the development and implementation of the strategy of focusing on core
academics;
(B) the development and implementation of competency-based education and
progress-based assessments; and
(C) the results being achieved under Subsections (3)(d)(ix)(A) and (B), as
measured by individual progress-based assessments and a comparison of Utah students'
progress with the progress of students in other states using standardized norm-referenced
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(xi)
other statistical and financial information about the school
system which the state superintendent considers pertinent;
(e) collecting and organizing education data into an automated decision support
system to facilitate school district and school improvement planning, accountability
reporting, performance recognition, and the evaluation of educational policy and program
effectiveness to include:
(i) data that are:
(A) comparable across schools and school districts;
(B) appropriate for use in longitudinal studies; and
(C) comprehensive with regard to the data elements required under applicable
state or federal law or state board rule;
(ii) features that enable users, most particularly school administrators, teachers,
and parents, to:
(A) retrieve school and school district level data electronically;
(B) interpret the data visually; and
(C) draw conclusions that are statistically valid; and
(iii) procedures for the collection and management of education data that:
(A) require the state superintendent of public instruction to:
(I) collaborate with school districts in designing and implementing uniform data
standards and definitions;
(II) undertake or sponsor research to implement improved methods for analyzing
education data;
(III) provide for data security to prevent unauthorized access to or contamination
of the data; and
(IV) protect the confidentiality of data under state and federal privacy laws; and
(B) require all school districts and schools to comply with the data collection and
management procedures established under Subsection (3)(e);
(f) administering and implementing federal educational programs in accordance
with Title 53A, Chapter 1, Part 9, Implementing Federal Programs Act; and
(g) with the approval of the board, preparing and submitting to the governor a
budget for the board to be included in the budget that the governor submits to the
Legislature.
(4) The state superintendent shall distribute funds deposited in the Autism
(5) Upon leaving office, the state superintendent shall deliver to the state
superintendent's successor all books, records, documents, maps, reports, papers, and other
articles pertaining to the state superintendent's office.
(6) (a) For the purpose of Subsection (3)(d)(vii):
(i) the pupil-teacher ratio for a school shall be calculated by dividing the number
of students enrolled in a school by the number of full-time equivalent teachers assigned to
the school, including regular classroom teachers, school-based specialists, and special
education teachers;
(ii) the pupil-teacher ratio for a school district shall be the median pupil-teacher
ratio of the schools within a school district;
(iii) the pupil-teacher ratio for charter schools aggregated shall be the median
pupil-teacher ratio of charter schools in the state; and
(iv) the pupil-teacher ratio for the state's public schools aggregated shall be the
median pupil-teacher ratio of public schools in the state.
(b) The printed copy of the report required by Subsection (3)(d) shall:
(i) include the pupil-teacher ratio for:
(A) each school district;
(B) the charter schools aggregated; and
(C) the state's public schools aggregated; and
(ii) indicate the Internet website where pupil-teacher ratios for each school in the
state may be accessed.
Renumber remaining sections accordingly.
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(a) "
Charter school students' average local revenues
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Average district
per pupil local revenues
" means the amount determined as
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[(iv) (A)] (e) (i) If the appropriation provided under this Subsection (4)[(d)]
(e)
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