SB 502 — Modify School Performance Grades.

FILED SENATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA AprSESSION 3, 2023 S.B.S 1 SENATE BILL 502 Short Title:

502 SESSION 2023 PRINCIPAL CLERK S D SENATE BILL DRS15221-NG-60 Short Title:

Rules and Operations of the Senate April 4, 2023 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO MODIFY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRADES TO PROVIDE THAT ALL SCHOOLS RECEIVE A GRADE FOR SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AND A GRADE FOR SCHOOL GROWTH.

115C-83.15, in measures such as student performance on annual subject-specific assessments, college and workplace readiness measures, graduation rates, and student progress in achieving English *DRS15221-NG-60**S502-v-1* General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 language proficiency.

– Each local board of education shall ensure that the report card issued for it bybythe the State Board of Education receives wide distribution to thelocal press oris otherwise providedto the public.

Eachlocal board of education shall ensure that the overall school performance score achievement and growth scores and grade grades earned bybyeach each school in the local school administrative unit for the current and previous four school years is are prominentlyprominentlydisplayed displayed on the Web site of thelocal school administrative unit.

provided that for schools serving students in grades nine through 12, the growth score shall onlyonlyinclude include growth values for measures calculated under sub-subdivisions a.

Page 2 DRS15221-NG-60Senate Bill 502-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 (c1) Calculation of School Growth Grades.

– The State Board shall establish the minimum number of students in a subgroup served by a school that is necessary to disaggregate informationonstudentperformanceandtodetermineasubgroupperformancescoreachievement and subgroup growth scores and grade associated grades for the followingfollowingsubgroups subgroups of students:

DRS15221-NG-60Senate Bill 502-First Edition Page 3 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 (d3) Report of Subgroup Performance Scores and School Achievement and School Growth Scores and Corresponding Grades.

– In addition to awarding the overall school scores for achievement, growth, and performance and the performance grade, achievement and growth and associatedgrades,associated grades, using EVAAS, theStateBoardshall designatethataschool has met,exceeded,met, exceeded, or has not met expected growth.

(2a) The percentage of schools receiving a school growth letter grade of A, B, C, D, or F earned bybyeach each school located within a local school administrative unit and statewide.

(5) The abilityabilityto toeasilycompare easily compare annual report card information, including school performance achievement and growth grades and whether schools have met, exceeded, or have not met expected growth, for local school administrative units and for individual schools for a time span of at least three years." Page 4 DRS15221-NG-60Senate Bill 502-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 SECTION 1.4.

114-95, to meaningfullymeaningfullydifferentiate differentiate the performance of schools on an annual basis.

For the purpose of compliance with federal law, the State Board of Education shall calculate the overall school performance score by adding the school achievementscoreandtheschoolgrowthscoreearnedbyaschool.achievementscoreandtheschool growthscoreearnedbyaschool.

Theschoolachievementscore DRS15221-NG-60Senate Bill 502-First Edition Page 5 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 shall account for eighty percent (80%) and the school growth score shall account for twenty percent (20%) of the total sum.

… (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section and onlyonlyfor for the purpose of conforming with ESSA, the State Board may label measures as indicators different from those described in subsection (a) of this section;

A low-performing local school administrative unit is a unit in which the majority of the schools in that unit that earned an overall school performance grade and school growth score Page 6 DRS15221-NG-60Senate Bill 502-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 achievement and growth scores and grades as provided in G.S.

(b) PlanforImprovementofLow-PerformingLocalSchoolAdministrativeUnits.–OncePlanforImprovementofLow-Performing aLocalSchoolAdministrativeUnits. local school administrative unit has been identified as low-performing under this section, the following actions shall be taken:

–Once a local school administrative unit has been identified as low-performing under this section, the following actions shall be taken:

(3) Information about the preliminarypreliminaryplan plan developed under subsection (b) of this section and the availability of the final plan on the local school administrative unit's Web site.

(4) ThemeetingdateforwhenthepreliminaryplanwillbeconsideredbyThemeetingdateforwhenthepreliminaryplanwillbeconsideredbythelocal thelocal board of education.

This notificationalsoshallincludetheoverallschoolperformancegradeandschoolnotificationalsoshallincludetheoverallschoolperformance gradeandschool growth score the school achievement and growth scores and grades earned and an explanation of the school performance grades and school growth scores.achievement and growth scores and grades." SECTION 2.5.

DRS15221-NG-60Senate Bill 502-First Edition Page 7 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2023 A charter school shall ensure that the report card issued for it bybythe the State Board of Education receives wide distribution to the local press or is otherwise provided to the public.

– A regional school shall ensure that the report card issued for it by the State Board of Education receives wide distribution to thelocal press oris otherwiseprovidedto thepublic.Aregional school shall ensure thatthethat overalltheoverall school performancescore achievementand growth scores and grade grades earned by the regional school for the current andpreviousfourschool yearsisareprominentlydisplayedontheschoolyearsisareprominentlydisplayedontheschoolWeb Web site.

If a regional school earned an overall a school performance achievement orgrowthor growth grade of Dor F,theregionalschool shall providenotice ofthegradeofthe grade in writing to the parent or guardian of all students enrolled in that school." SECTION 2.8.

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