REPORT TITLE:
Educational Accountability


DESCRIPTION:
Requires the DOE to implement the educational accountability
system for Hawaii's public schools.

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 302A-1004, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "§302A-1004  Educational [assessment and] accountability[;]
 
 4 system; annual reports.(a)  The department shall [establish]
 
 5 implement a comprehensive system of educational accountability to
 
 6 motivate and support the improved performance of students and the
 
 7 education system.  This accountability system shall:
 
 8      (1)  Include student accountability; school or collective
 
 9           professional accountability; individual professional
 
10           accountability for teachers, principals, and other
 
11           employees; and public accounting for other significant
 
12           partners to the education process;
 
13     [(1)] (2)  Link authority and adequate resources to
 
14           responsibility;
 
15     [(2)] (3)  Define clear roles for all parties and lines of
 
16           responsibility and mutual obligation;
 
17     [(3)] (4)  Involve fair and adequate assessment against
 
18           agreed upon goals;
 
19     [(4)] (5)  Invoke a full and balanced set of appropriate
 

 
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 1           [actions (assistance, rewards, or sanctions) for
 
 2           observed performance;]  consequences for observed
 
 3           performance, including rewards and recognition for
 
 4           those schools that meet or exceed their goals,
 
 5           assistance to those that fall short, and sanctions for
 
 6           those that given adequate assistance and ample time,
 
 7           continue to fail to meet goals;
 
 8     [(5)] (6)  Involve a statewide student assessment program
 
 9           that [is explicitly aligned with the Hawaii] provides
 
10           annual data on student, school, and system performance
 
11           at select benchmark grade levels in terms of student
 
12           performance relative to statewide content and
 
13           performance standards and embodies high and rigorous
 
14           expectations for the attainment of all students;[ and
 
15      (6)  Involve a comprehensive school profile or report card
 
16           for each school, which shall include, but not be
 
17           limited to, student performance measures, school
 
18           attendance, drop-out rates, and parental involvement.
 
19           These reports shall be made available annually to the
 
20           board, the governor, the legislature, the parents, and
 
21           the general public.
 
22      Beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, the department
 
23 shall submit to the legislature, the governor, and the board of
 

 
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 1 education at least twenty days prior to the convening of each
 
 2 legislative session a report of the specifics of the design of
 
 3 the comprehensive accountability system, as well as the fiscal
 
 4 requirements and legislative actions necessary to create the
 
 5 accountability system.]
 
 6      (7)  Require that teachers and administrators engage in the
 
 7           continuous professional growth and development that
 
 8           ensure their currency with respect to disciplinary
 
 9           content, leadership skill, knowledge, or pedagogical
 
10           skill, as appropriate to their position.  This
 
11           requirement may be established by the department in
 
12           terms of credit hours earned or their equivalent in
 
13           professional development activity certified by the
 
14           department as appropriate in focus and rigor; and
 
15      (8)  Establish an explicit link between professional
 
16           evaluation results and individual accountability for
 
17           professional development of the knowledge, skill, and
 
18           professional behavior necessary to the position, by
 
19           requiring that results of the professional evaluation
 
20           be used by the department to prescribe appropriate
 
21           consequences.  Appropriate consequences include a full
 
22           and balanced range of actions for observed performance
 
23           such as recognition or reward, assistance, and
 

 
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 1           sanction.
 
 2      (b)  The department shall submit to the legislature and to
 
 3 the governor, at least twenty days prior to the convening of each
 
 4 regular legislative session, an educational status report that
 
 5 includes but is not limited to the following:
 
 6      (1)  Results of school-by-school assessments of educational
 
 7           outcomes[, including reference to such student
 
 8           performance standards and school-by-school assessment
 
 9           models as may be developed by the commission on
 
10           performance standards and adopted by the board.  This
 
11           paragraph is repealed on June 30, 2001];
 
12      (2)  Summaries of [school improvement plans;] each school's
 
13           standards implementation design;
 
14      (3)  Summary descriptions of the demographic makeup of the
 
15           schools, with indications of the range of these
 
16           conditions among schools within Hawaii;
 
17      (4)  Comparisons of conditions affecting Hawaii's schools
 
18           with the conditions of schools in other states; and
 
19      (5)  Other such assessments as may be deemed appropriate by
 
20           the board.
 
21      (c)  The department shall provide electronic access to
 
22 computer-based financial management, student information, and
 
23 other information systems to the legislature and the auditor.
 

 
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 1 The department shall submit to the legislature and to the
 
 2 governor, at least twenty days prior to the convening of each
 
 3 legislative session, a school-by-school expenditure report that
 
 4 includes but is not limited to the following:
 
 5      (1)  The financial analysis of expenditures by the
 
 6           department with respect to the following areas:
 
 7           (A)  Instruction, including face-to-face teaching, and
 
 8                classroom materials;
 
 9           (B)  Instructional support, including pupil, teacher,
 
10                and program support;
 
11           (C)  Operations, including non-instructional pupil
 
12                services, facilities, and business services;
 
13           (D)  Other commitments, including contingencies,
 
14                capitol improvement projects, out-of-district
 
15                obligations, and legal obligations; and
 
16           (E)  Leadership, including school management, program
 
17                and operations management, and district
 
18                management; and
 
19      (2)  The measures of accuracy, efficiency, and productivity
 
20           of the department, districts, and schools in delivering
 
21           resources to the classroom and the student.
 
22      (d)  The implementation of this section shall not be subject
 
23 to negotiation under chapter 89."
 

 
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 1      SECTION 2.  Act 74, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, is amended
 
 2 by amending section 3 to read as follows:
 
 3      "SECTION 3.  The department of education shall submit a
 
 4 report on [the findings and recommendations of the design of the
 
 5 comprehensive accountability system referred to in section 2 of
 
 6 this Act, to the legislature, and to the governor, at least
 
 7 twenty days prior to the convening of the regular legislative
 
 8 session of 2000.  This report shall include, but not be limited
 
 9 to, the essential elements of the design, a timeline for its
 
10 implementation, the legislative actions necessary to enable
 
11 implementation, as well as a fiscal note describing resources
 
12 necessary to execute the designs.  The department of education
 
13 shall submit a report on] the status of the implementation of the
 
14 [comprehensive] educational accountability system to the
 
15 legislature, and to the governor, at least twenty days prior to
 
16 the convening of the regular legislative session of 2001."
 
17      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
18 New statutory material is underscored.
 
19      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
20 
 
21                           INTRODUCED BY: ________________________

 
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