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SPONSOR:
Rep. Shupe & Sen. Buckson
Reps. Hilovsky, Morrison, Michael Smith; Sens. Lawson, Pettyjohn
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HOUSE BILL NO. 29
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE PUBLIC EDUCATION PROFILES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
Section 1. Amend § 124A, Title 14 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows and redesignating accordingly:
§ 124A.
Education Profile reports
Education-related data; school performance; reporting.
(a)
(1) The Department of Education (Department) shall collect and release education-related data relating to student progress in Delaware schools. Education-related data includes reports and resources for topics such as student enrollment, educational staff, school and student performance, and student health and wellness.
(2)
On or before August 15, 2003, and on or before August 1 of each subsequent year, the Department
of Education
shall issue
Delaware Public
Education Profiles
reports
on all Delaware public schools, including
information for
charter schools, reorganized and vocational-technical school districts, and
the State (hereinafter in this section referred to as “Education Profiles”). Such
statewide.
Education Profiles
The information provided under this paragraph (a)(2)
shall report on
the state of Delaware’s
this State’s
public education system and
the
progress toward achieving the educational goals established by the General Assembly, State, and the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 20 U.S.C. § 6301 et seq.
(b)
(1)
The purpose of the
Education Profiles shall be
education-related data is
to monitor progress and trends toward the achievement of the State’s educational goals, to provide
parents
educators, families,
and citizens with information they can use to make good choices for their
children
children,
and to hold the public educational system accountable for its performance and cost-effective use of public funds.
The Education Profiles shall be
Education-related data must be provided
in a user-friendly form that permits educationally meaningful comparisons among schools and school districts, based on accurate,
reliable
reliable,
and normalized data. The
Department must put a link to the reports required under paragraph (a)(2) of this section on all of the following:
a. The home page of the Department’s website.
b. The school choice website under § 401 of this title.
(2)a.
Education Profiles shall
Reports must
compare
data for all Delaware public schools, including charter schools, school districts, and the state to
the data required under this section by each school, school district, and at the statewide level.
b. If informative and practicable to do so, reports must also compare the data required under this section to similar data at
national, regional and statewide data where informative and practicable to do so.
the national and regional level and for other states.
(c) The
Education Profiles shall contain, but need not be limited to, information such as the following to be reported on a state, district and school-specific basis:
reports required under paragraph (a)(2) of this section must contain all of the following:
(1) Information pertaining to student
testing, student
achievement
testing and achievement, including proficiency rates,
and educational outcomes as measured against the State’s standards and other relevant
indicators;
indicators.
(2) Information pertaining to
school, and/or district, and state accountability;
accountability.
(3) Information pertaining to school safety and discipline and student
attendance and truancy;
attendance, including truancy.
(4) Information pertaining to school district administrator-student ratios, school teacher-student
ratios
ratios,
and other staffing
ratios;
ratios.
(5) Information pertaining to pupil and staff population
demographics;
demographics.
(6) Information pertaining to school district revenues, expenditures, tax
rates and wealth;
rates, and wealth.
(7) Information pertaining to school curricular
offerings;
offerings, including the career pathways offered at a high school.
(8) Information pertaining to parent and community involvement in the school and school
district;
district.
(9) Information
pertaining to the school district or school
supplied by the school district or school
to include in the Education Profile pertaining to
pertaining to
the criteria
specified in this subsection;
required under this subsection.
(10) Information pertaining to the role of the Title IX
Coordinator, which shall include their contact information; and
Coordinator, including the Title IX Coordinator’s contact information.
(11)
Such
All
other information as the Department, after consultation with the State Board, finds will serve the purposes
set forth in
under
subsection (b) of this section.
Section 2. Amend § 401, Title 14 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:
§ 401.
Establishment;
School District Enrollment Choice Program; establishment;
statement of
purpose.
purpose; application.
(d)
(1)
The forms prescribed and policies adopted
pursuant to this chapter
under this chapter, including the online application,
shall be available on the websites of
the
all of the following:
a. Each
reorganized school
districts,
district.
b. Each
vocational-technical school
districts, charter schools, and the
district.
c. Each charter school.
d. The
Department of
Education, and the online application.
Education.
(2) The Department of Education’s school choice website must contain a link to the website with the reports under § 124A(a)(2) of this title.
SYNOPSIS
Each year, the Department of Education (Department) publishes data regarding all Delaware public schools, currently known as School Performance Data Reports (reports). These reports are available on the Department’s website as the Delaware Report Card.
This Act revises current law to correspond with and codify current Department practices regarding these reports as follows:
• Changes the term “Education Profile” to “education-related data” to reflect the broad range of data that the Department publishes, in addition to the annual reports required under existing State and federal law.
• Requires that there is a link to these reports on the school choice website.
• Requires that these reports continue to include proficiency rates.
In addition, this Act requires that the Department do all of the following:
• Provide a link to these reports on the home page of the Department’s website.
• Include a list of a career pathways offered at a high school in these reports.
This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual which includes revisions to clarify repetitive, confusing, or contradictory language.