CCSD District Accountability Meeting

Yesterday late afternoon, the CCSD Accountability met together at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. Below is the agenda and items that were discussed.

District Accountability Agenda

February 2017

This meeting will be held at 4:45 PM on February 14th in Chris’ Office

In Attendance:

Call to order at:

Welcome to Visitors:

Approval of Minutes

1. Old Business:

Edit December notes for Lori Cooper attendance: Katrina

Unified Improvement Plan: Develop strategies: Mr. Vance

2. New Business:

Legislative Updates- See Below new bills that are being discussed during the Colorado General Assembly that directly relate to our work.

Link Student Advisory Committee Report: Alexis, Hannah, Heriberto

Link Crew is a high school transition program that welcomes freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their high school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed.

Adjourned at

Next meeting: Tuesday, March 14th at 4:45 PM in Chris’ office.

HB17-1022

Teaching Competent History In Public Schools

Concerning teaching civil government in public schools, including the history, culture, and contributions of American Indians, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

The bill mandates funding instruction in public schools of history and civil government of the United States and Colorado, including but not limited to the history, culture, and contributions of American Indians,

Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans.

Current law requires school districts to convene community forums to discuss the content standards in history and civil government at least once every 10 years. The bill requires the forums to be held at least every 2 years.

The history, culture, and civil government in education commission is established to make recommendations to the state board of education when the state board performs the scheduled review of education standards in 2018 so those standards and programs accurately reflect the history, culture, and civil government of the United States and Colorado, including the contributions and influence of American Indians, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans.

HB17-1003

Strategic Plan To Address Teacher Shortages

Concerning a strategic action plan to address teacher shortages in Colorado.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

The bill requires the department of higher education in partnership with the department of education to examine recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers and to prepare a strategic plan to address teacher shortages in school districts and public schools within the state. The departments must collaborate with institutions of higher education, school districts, and other educational interest groups in preparing the plan. The department of higher education must submit the plan to the Colorado commission on higher education, the state board of education, and the education committees of the general assembly by December 1, 2017.

HB17-1038

Prohibit Corporal Punishment Of Children

Concerning prohibiting corporal punishment of children in certain public settings.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECTS:

Children & Domestic Matters

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

The bill prohibits a person employed by or volunteering in a public school, a state-licensed child care center, a family child care home, or a specialized group facility from imposing corporal punishment on a child. 'Corporal punishment' means the willful infliction of, or willfully causing the infliction of, physical pain on a child.

HB17-1042

Increasing Funding For Full-day Kindergarten

Concerning increasing the supplemental kindergarten enrollment for purposes of calculating public school finance.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Under existing law, the 'Public School Finance Act of 1994' funds kindergarten students as half-day pupils plus the supplemental kindergarten enrollment, which is an additional .08 of a full-day pupil. The bill increases the supplemental kindergarten enrollment for the 2017-18 budget year and each budget year thereafter to .16 of a full-day pupil.

HB17-1062

Making Certain State Assessments Optional

Concerning allowing local education providers to choose whether to administer certain state assessments to students enrolled in specified grades.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Under existing law, each local education provider must administer the state assessments in math and English language arts to students enrolled in ninth grade and must administer the state-selected assessment to students enrolled in tenth grade. Each local education provider must also administer a state social studies assessment to students in one elementary-school grade, one middle-school grade, and one high-school grade on a 3-year schedule.

Under the bill, each local education provider may choose whether to administer the state social studies assessments, the ninth-grade math and English language arts state assessments, and the tenth-grade assessment. The bill repeals the requirement that the department of education apply for a waiver to administer the ninth-grade math and English language arts state assessments to satisfy federal requirements.

HB17-1117

Repeal Assessments In 9th Grade And Social Studies

Concerning eliminating certain state assessments in public schools.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Under current law, the department of education administers state assessments in English language arts and mathematics to students in grades 3 through 9 and administers state assessments in social studies to students once in elementary school, once in middle school, and once in high school. The bill repeals administration of the ninth-grade English language arts and mathematics state assessments and the state social studies assessments to align with changes to federal requirements.

HB17-1181

Required State Assessment For Ninth-grade Students

Concerning requiring a single statewide end-of-year assessment for students enrolled in ninth grade that is aligned with the tenth-grade state assessment.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Under existing law, each local education provider must administer the state assessments in math and English language arts to ninth-grade students and must administer a state-selected assessment to tenth-grade students. The bill repeals the requirement to administer the state assessment to ninth-grade students. Instead, local education providers must administer a state-selected ninth-grade assessment that is aligned with the ninth-grade content standards and the assessment administered to tenth-grade students. The department of education must ensure that, under the testing schedule, ninth-grade students take the state-selected assessment in the spring semester.

SB17-067

Educator Effectiveness 50% Student Academic Growth

Concerning the provision that a percentage of an educator's performance evaluation be determined by student academic growth.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Current law relating to performance evaluations for teachers and principals (educator evaluations) includes a requirement that at least 50% of an evaluation must be determined by the academic growth of the teacher's students or the students in the principal's school. The bill eliminates that requirement but grants school districts the flexibility to continue to use student academic growth, in an amount not to exceed 20%, in educator evaluations.

The bill also allows a local board of education or board of cooperative services that adopts its own local licensed personnel evaluation system to exempt teachers or principals who have either an existing effective or highly effective rating from the annual requirements of such system for a period not to exceed 3 years. If a local board of education or board of cooperative services decides to provide such an exemption, the teacher or principal retains the rating he or she received on his or her most recent evaluation for the exemption period. A teacher or principal who has been exempt from evaluations pursuant to this bill may request a new evaluation prior to the end of the exemption period. The rating from such a new evaluation will become the teacher's or principal's new performance evaluation rating.

SB17-114

Accountability For School Districts & Schools

Concerning accountability in the elementary and secondary public education system.

SESSION:

2017 Regular Session

SUBJECT:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Under existing law, the department of education (department) considers the performance of each school district and the state charter school institute (institute) on specified indicators when assigning accreditation categories. The bill creates a new performance indicator that measures the improvement achieved over the preceding 4 school years by a public school, school district, the state charter school institute, and the state as a whole in student scores on state assessments and in closing the achievement and growth gaps. The bill directs the state board of education (state board) and the department to place the greatest emphasis on the academic growth performance indicator when determining the appropriate accreditation category for each school district and the institute.

Under existing law, the department may recommend that the state board remove a school district's or the institute's accreditation if the school district or institute is accredited with turnaround plan and fails to make substantial progress under the turnaround plan or the school district or institute is accredited with priority improvement plan or lower for 5 consecutive school years. If the state board removes accreditation, it specifies the corrective actions the school district or institute must take to be accredited again.

The bill repeals the authority to remove a school district's or the institute's accreditation based on performance under a priority improvement or turnaround plan. If a school district or the institute fails to make substantial progress under a priority improvement or turnaround plan and is accredited with priority improvement plan or lower for 5 consecutive school years, the commissioner of education must assign the state review panel to critically evaluate the school district's or institute's performance and recommend one or more corrective actions. The state board must specify the corrective actions the school district or institute must take.