Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill revising how the School Budget will be spent.

Highlights:

• Establishes that the school performance must be transparent and available to the general public (Sec. 2).

• Requires each school district to develop a five year comprehensive educational plan that includes the following (Sec. 2):
• School level educational profile;
• District educational goals;
• Description of long progress goals;
• Description of strategies;
• Professional development plan;
• State criterion-reference testing results; and
• High Schools must show participation rates and results in the ACT and other similar accredited programs.

• Requires each school district to have their school and district profiles publicly available by June 30, 2012 (Sec. 2).

• Requires the Board of Public Education to adopt rules to integrate expanded performance measures addressing the following measures (Sec. 3):
• Student performance by grade-proficiency or advanced performance level;
• Student growth in an academic year;
• Student performance of the lowest performing students in each school;
• Graduation rates; -Career and college readiness; and
• Acceleration rates or college-level academic work completed during high school.

• Specifies the allocation of tax money collected from oil and gas productions to each eligible county and school district (Sec. 8).

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