S.B. 133
         SCHOOL PERFORMANCE REPORT AMENDMENTS

Senate Committee Amendments

Amendment 1 February 26, 2013 3:33 PM



Senator Howard A. Stephenson proposes the following amendments:

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             8      General Description:
             9          This bill modifies requirements pertaining to
{   a school performance report   }        the reporting of school performance       .

             10      Highlighted Provisions:
             11          This bill:
 

    . provides exemptions to U-PASS reporting requirements;  

             12          .    modifies the content of a school performance report, which includes information
             13      about the academic achievement and demographic characteristics of a school's

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             23      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             24      AMENDS:
      53A-1-607, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2009, Chapter 299      

             25          53A-3-602.5, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2011, Chapter 321

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             27      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
    
  Section 1. Section 53A-1-607 is amended to read:      

     53A-1-607 .   Scoring -- Reports of results.
     (1) Each local school board and charter school shall submit all answer sheets for the achievement tests administered under U-PASS on a per-school and per-class basis to the state superintendent of public instruction for scoring unless the test requires scoring by a national testing service.
     (2) The district, school, and class results of the U-PASS testing program, but not the score or relative position of individual students, shall be reported to each local school board or charter school governing board annually at a regularly scheduled meeting.
     (3)
{   Each   }        (a) Subject to Subsection (3)(b), each       local board and charter school governing board shall make copies of the report available to the general public upon request.

      (b) A local school board of a school district that receives necessarily existent small schools funding under Section 53A-17a-109 may exclude the following from a report made available to the public pursuant to Subsection (3)(a):

    (i) test scores aggregated by grade level or course at a necessarily existent small school, if fewer

than two classes of a course, or within a grade level, are taught; or
    (ii) test scores aggregated by class or teacher at a necessarily existent small school.  


     (4) The board may charge a fee for the copying costs.
     (5) The State Board of Education shall annually provide to school districts and charter schools a comprehensive report for each of their students showing the student's U-PASS test results for each year the student took a U-PASS test. School districts and charter schools shall give a copy of the comprehensive report to the student's parents and make the report available to school staff, as appropriate.

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             41          (A) by grade level or course [for the previous two years] and an indication of whether
             42      there was a sufficient magnitude of gain in the scores [between the two years]
  , except grade level or course scores for a necessarily existent small school may not be reported if fewer than two classes of a course, or within a grade level, are taught       ; and

             43          (B) by class
  , as provided by Subsection (3)       ;

             44          (ii) online writing assessments required under Section 53A-1-603 ; and

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             94          [(d) the number and percent of students receiving fee waivers and the total dollar
             95      amount of fees waived.]
             96          (3) (a)
{   Beginning   }        Except as provided by Subsection (3)(c), beginning       with the 2013-14 school year, a school performance report shall

             97      include the average growth score, as measured by an online computer adaptive test, of a

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             100      the growth scores of students for whom the teacher is responsible for providing instruction in a
             101      subject that is tested by an online computer adaptive test.
 

    (c) At the request of a local school board of a school district that qualifies for necessarily existent small schools funding under Section 53A-17a-109, the State Board of Education shall exclude from a school performance report the average growth scores of a teacher's students as specified in Subsections (3)(a) and (b) for a teacher employed at a necessarily existent small school.  

             102          (4) (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt common definitions and data

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