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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3055
Sponsored by Representatives YUNKER, WRIGHT; Senators NASH, SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Requires each school district to have students take tests and improve test scores for the
school district to receive certain state moneys. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1).
Requires school districts to comply with statewide summative assessment participation require-
ments and to demonstrate improved student achievement on statewide summative assessments to be
eligible for state funding related to the High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness
Act.
Eliminates the directive to the Department of Education to apply for a waiver of state assess-
ment requirements under federal law.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to statewide summative assessments; creating new provisions; amending ORS 327.883; and
repealing ORS 329.482.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 327.883 is amended to read:
327.883. (1) The State Board of Education shall by rule adopt eligibility requirements, biennial
plan guidelines, biennial plan submission deadlines, reporting criteria and audit processes to ensure
that amounts apportioned under ORS 327.859 improve students’ progress toward graduation begin-
ning with grade 9, increase the graduation rates of high schools and improve high school graduates’
readiness for college or career.
(2) The requirements for eligibility adopted under subsection (1) of this section must include:
(a) The requirement that the biennial plan include:
(A) A district needs assessment and an explanation of how the establishment or expansion of
career and technical education programs, college-level educational opportunities or dropout-
prevention strategies addresses those needs.
(B) A description of how the school district will establish or expand career and technical edu-
cation programs, college-level educational opportunities and dropout-prevention strategies in com-
pliance with ORS 327.874.
(C) The four-year plan of the school district relating to the establishment or expansion of career
and technical education programs, college-level educational opportunities and dropout-prevention
strategies, as provided by ORS 327.874.
(b) The requirement that the school district demonstrate in the biennial plan how the school
district will:
(A) Provide sufficient time for teachers and staff of students in grade 9 to review data on
students’ grades, absences and discipline by school and by course and to develop strategies to ensure
at-risk students stay on track to graduate;
(B) Implement district-wide evidence-based practices for reducing chronic absenteeism in grades
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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HB 3055
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9 through 12;
(C) Assign high school students to advanced and dual-credit courses based on academic quali-
fications in order to avoid bias in course assignments; and
(D) Implement systems to ensure that high school students, including English Language
Learners, are taking courses required for on-time graduation.
(c) If necessary for the success of the establishment or expansion of career and technical edu-
cation programs, college-level educational opportunities and dropout-prevention strategies, the re-
quirement that a school district must demonstrate in the biennial plan that the school district will:
(A) Cooperate, coordinate or act jointly with other school districts, education service districts,
regional achievement collaboratives, post-secondary institutions or other education partners, in-
cluding professional learning communities, to achieve the purposes of the High School Graduation
and College and Career Readiness Fund and to maximize benefits from apportionments under ORS
327.859;
(B) Cooperate, coordinate or act jointly with nonprofit programs and community-based organ-
izations that have demonstrated achievement of positive outcomes in work with underserved student
populations;
(C) Consult with federally recognized Oregon Indian tribes, as required by rule of the State
Board of Education; and
(D) Use evidence-based criteria to determine appropriate staffing ratios and class sizes to
achieve the purposes of the fund and to maximize benefits from apportionments under ORS 327.859.
(d) The requirement that, for the statewide summative assessments administered for
mathematics and language arts at least once in grades 9 through 12 for purposes of 20 U.S.C.
6311, the school district comply with the percentage requirements for the annual measure-
ment of achievement that applies to all students and to all students in each subgroup of
students identified in 20 U.S.C. 6311.
(e) The requirement that the average student academic achievement, as measured by the
statewide summative assessments administered for both mathematics and language arts at
least once in grades 9 through 12 for purposes of 20 U.S.C. 6311, has improved as compared
to both the previous school year and the 2018-2019 school year.
SECTION 2.
(1) The amendments to ORS 327.883 by section 1 of this 2025 Act become
operative on July 1, 2026.
(2) The amendments to ORS 327.883 by section 1 of this 2025 Act apply to distributions
commencing with the 2026-2027 distributions.
SECTION 3. ORS 329.482 is repealed.
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