53A-1-605.   Analysis of results -- Submission of annual budget -- Staff professional development.
     (1) The State Board of Education, through the state superintendent of public instruction, shall develop a plan to analyze the results of the U-PASS scores for all grade levels and courses required under Section 53A-1-603 and the student behavior indicators referred to in Subsection 53A-1-602(3).
     (2) The plan shall include components designed to:
     (a) assist school districts and individual schools to use the results of the analysis in planning, evaluating, and enhancing programs within the district; and
     (b) for the 2003-04 school year and for each year thereafter, identify schools not achieving state-established acceptable levels of student performance in order to assist those schools in raising their student performance levels.
     (3) The plan shall include provisions for statistical reporting of data as follows:
     (a) norm-referenced tests results shall be reported at the state, district, school, and grade levels, and shall include actual levels of performance on tests; and
     (b) criterion-referenced tests results shall be reported at state, district, school, and grade or course levels, and shall include actual levels of performance on tests.
     (4) Each local school board shall provide for:
     (a) district evaluation of the U-PASS test results and use of the evaluations in setting goals and establishing programs for the district and each school within the district; and
     (b) a professional development program that provides teachers, principals, and other professional staff employed by the school district with the training required to successfully establish and maintain U-PASS.

Amended by Chapter 300, 2009 General Session
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