REPORT TITLE:
Educational accountability


DESCRIPTION:
Mandates that DOE implement the educational accountability system
for Hawaii's public schools that focuses on student learning of
the statewide standards and includes student accountability;
school or collective professional accountability of rewards,
assistance, and sanctions; individual professional
accountability; and public accounting for other significant
partners to the education process.  Establishes an interagency
educational accountability working group.  (SB2837 HD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                H.D. 1
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:
 
 9           (A)  Student accountability;
 
10           (B)  School or collective professional accountability;
 
11           (C)  Individual professional accountability for
 
12                teachers and administrators; and
 
13           (D)  Public accounting for other significant partners
 
14                to the education process;
 
15     [(1)] (2)  Link authority and adequate resources to
 
16           responsibility;
 
17     [(2)] (3)  Define clear roles for all parties and lines of
 
18           responsibility and mutual obligation;
 

 
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 1     [(3)] (4)  Involve fair and adequate assessment against
 
 2           agreed upon goals;
 
 3     [(4)  Invoke appropriate actions (assistance, rewards, or
 
 4           sanctions) for observed performance;] 
 
 5      (5)  Invoke a full and balanced set of appropriate
 
 6           consequences for observed performance, including:
 
 7           (A)  Rewards and recognition for schools that meet or
 
 8                exceed their goals;
 
 9           (B)  Assistance to those that fall short; and
 
10           (C)  Sanctions for those that, given adequate
 
11                assistance and ample time, continue to fail to
 
12                meet their goals;
 
13     [(5)] (6)  Involve a statewide student assessment program
 
14           that [is explicitly aligned with the Hawaii] provides
 
15           annual data on student, school, and system performance
 
16           at selected benchmark grade levels in terms of student
 
17           performance relative to statewide content and
 
18           performance standards and embodies high and rigorous
 
19           expectations for the attainment of all students; [and
 
20      (6)  Involve a comprehensive school profile or report card
 
21           for each school, which shall include, but not be
 
22           limited to, student performance measures, school
 
23           attendance, drop-out rates, and parental involvement.
 

 
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 1           These reports shall be made available annually to the
 
 2           board, the governor, the legislature, the parents, and
 
 3           the general public.
 
 4      Beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, the department
 
 5 shall submit to the legislature, the governor, and the board of
 
 6 education at least twenty days prior to the convening of each
 
 7 regular legislative session a report of the specifics of the
 
 8 design of the comprehensive accountability system, as well as the
 
 9 fiscal requirements and legislative actions necessary to create
 
10 the accountability system.]
 
11      (7)  Require that teachers and administrators engage in
 
12           continuous professional growth and development to
 
13           ensure their currency with respect to disciplinary
 
14           content, leadership skill, knowledge, or pedagogical
 
15           skill, as appropriate to their position.  This
 
16           requirement may be established by the department in
 
17           terms of credit hours earned or their equivalent in
 
18           professional development activities certified by the
 
19           department as being appropriate in focus and rigor; and
 
20      (8)  Establish an explicit link between professional
 
21           evaluation results and individual accountability for
 
22           professional development of the knowledge, skill, and
 
23           professional behavior necessary to the position, by
 

 
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 1           requiring that results of the professional evaluation
 
 2           be used by the department to prescribe appropriate
 
 3           consequences.  Appropriate consequences include a full
 
 4           and balanced range of actions for observed performance
 
 5           such as recognition or reward, assistance, and
 
 6           sanction.
 
 7      (b)  The department shall submit to the legislature and to
 
 8 the governor, at least twenty days prior to the convening of each
 
 9 regular legislative session, an educational status report that
 
10 includes but is not limited to the following:
 
11      (1)  Results of school-by-school assessments of educational
 
12           outcomes[, including reference to such student
 
13           performance standards and school-by-school assessment
 
14           models as may be developed by the commission on
 
15           performance standards and adopted by the board.  This
 
16           paragraph is repealed on June 30, 2001];
 
17      (2)  Summaries of [school improvement plans;] each school's
 
18           standards implementation design;
 
19      (3)  Summary descriptions of the demographic makeup of the
 
20           schools, with indications of the range of these
 
21           conditions among schools within Hawaii;
 
22      (4)  Comparisons of conditions affecting Hawaii's schools
 
23           with the conditions of schools in other states; and
 

 
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 1      (5)  Other such assessments as may be deemed appropriate by
 
 2           the board.
 
 3      (c)  The department shall provide electronic access to
 
 4 computer-based financial management, student information, and
 
 5 other information systems to the legislature and the auditor.
 
 6 The department shall submit to the legislature and to the
 
 7 governor, at least twenty days prior to the convening of each
 
 8 legislative session, a school-by-school expenditure report that
 
 9 includes but is not limited to the following:
 
10      (1)  The financial analysis of expenditures by the
 
11           department with respect to the following areas:
 
12           (A)  Instruction, including face-to-face teaching, and
 
13                classroom materials;
 
14           (B)  Instructional support, including pupil, teacher,
 
15                and program support;
 
16           (C)  Operations, including non-instructional pupil
 
17                services, facilities, and business services;
 
18           (D)  Other commitments, including contingencies,
 
19                capital improvement projects, out-of-district
 
20                obligations, and legal obligations; and
 
21           (E)  Leadership, including school management, program
 
22                and operations management, and district
 
23                management;
 
24           and
 

 
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 1      (2)  The measures of accuracy, efficiency, and productivity
 
 2           of the department, districts, and schools in delivering
 
 3           resources to the classroom and the student.
 
 4      (d)  The implementation of this section shall not be subject
 
 5 to negotiation under chapter 89."
 
 6      SECTION 2.  Act 74, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, is amended
 
 7 by amending section 3 to read as follows:
 
 8      "SECTION 3.  The department of education shall submit a
 
 9 report on [the findings and recommendations of the design of the
 
10 comprehensive accountability system referred to in section 2 of
 
11 this Act, to the legislature, and to the governor, at least
 
12 twenty days prior to the convening of the regular legislative
 
13 session of 2000.  This report shall include, but not be limited
 
14 to, the essential elements of the design, a timeline for its
 
15 implementation, the legislative actions necessary to enable
 
16 implementation, as well as a fiscal note describing resources
 
17 necessary to execute the designs.  The department of education
 
18 shall submit a report on] the status of the implementation of the
 
19 [comprehensive] educational accountability system to the
 
20 legislature, and to the governor, at least twenty days prior to
 
21 the convening of the regular legislative session of 2001."
 
22      SECTION 3.  (a)  There is established within the department
 
23 of education, an interagency educational accountability working
 
24 group.  Specifically, the working group shall:
 

 
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 1      (1)  Review all pertinent agency rules, policies,
 
 2           procedures, and practices to identify those that are
 
 3           impeding educational system restructuring and
 
 4           reallocation of educational resources;
 
 5      (2)  Beginning with the 2001-2003 fiscal biennium, establish
 
 6           a two-year suspension of all rules, policies,
 
 7           procedures, and practices to allow the department of
 
 8           education to restructure and reallocate its resources
 
 9           to support student achievement; and
 
10      (3)  Submit reports to the 2001 and 2002 regular sessions of
 
11           the legislature regarding the progress of the working
 
12           group and any legislative actions necessary to support
 
13           the reorganization and reallocation of educational
 
14           resources.
 
15      (b)  The interagency working group shall be composed of:
 
16      (1)  The governor or the governor's designee;
 
17      (2)  The chair of the board of education or the chair's
 
18           designee;
 
19      (3)  The comptroller or the comptroller's designee;
 
20      (4)  The attorney general or the attorney general's
 
21           designee;
 

 
 
 
 
 
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 1      (5)  The director of finance or the director's designee;
 
 2      (6)  The superintendent of education or the superintendent's
 
 3           designee;
 
 4      (7)  The director of health or the director's designee;
 
 5      (8)  The director of human resources development or the
 
 6           director's designee;
 
 7      (9)  The director of labor and industrial relations or the
 
 8           director's designee; and
 
 9     (10)  One representative each from the Hawaii State Teachers'
 
10           Association, the Hawaii Government Employees'
 
11           Association, the United Public Workers Local 646, and
 
12           the Hawaii State Parents, Teachers, and Students
 
13           Association.
 
14      (c)  The chair of the working group shall be the
 
15 superintendent of education, as the chief executive officer of
 
16 the public school system.  The working group shall convene on a
 
17 monthly basis, and shall focus its initial efforts on identifying
 
18 agency rules, policies, procedures, and practices specifically in
 
19 the areas of financial and human resource allocation and their
 
20 effect on educational resources.  The working group shall develop
 
21 a list of the rules, policies, procedures, and practices that
 
22 shall be suspended beginning with the 2001-2003 fiscal biennium.
 

 
 
 
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 1      SECTION 4.  The working group shall submit a status report
 
 2 to the legislature that shall include a summary of its activities
 
 3 regarding the review of agency functions and identification of
 
 4 rules, policies, procedures, and practices to be suspended no
 
 5 later than twenty days prior to the the convening of the regular
 
 6 session of 2001.  The working group shall submit a final report
 
 7 to the legislature that shall include a summary of the activities
 
 8 undertaken by the department of education in response to the
 
 9 suspensions no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
 
10 the regular session of 2002.
 
11      SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
12 New statutory material is underscored.
 
13      SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.