HB0016 - Public schools-student performance standards.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0231

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0016

 

 

Public schools-student performance standards.

 

Sponsored by:

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to public school performance and graduation
 2  standards; modifying requirements for graduation as
 3  specified; imposing different types of student proficiency
 4  with respect to performance standards; imposing assessment
 5  duties upon school districts; and providing for an
 6  effective date.

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 8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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10         Section 1.  W.S. 21-2-304(a)(iii)(intro) and (iv),
11  21-3-110(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxii) and
12  21-9-101(b)(intro) are amended to read:

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14         21-2-304.  Duties of the state board of education.

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16         (a)  The state board of education shall:

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 1              (iii)  By rule and regulation and in consultation
 2  and coordination with local school districts, prescribe
 3  uniform student performance standards for the common core
 4  of knowledge and the common core of skills specified under
 5  W.S. 21-9-101(b) and promulgate uniform standards for
 6  programs addressing the special needs of student
 7  populations specified under W.S. 21-9-101(c).  Student
 8  performance standards prescribed under this paragraph shall
 9  include standards for graduation from any high school
10  within any school district of this state based upon
11  performance or mastery of the types of proficiency in the
12  common core of knowledge and common core of skills
13  prescribed under W.S. 21-9-101(b) as demonstrated through
14  an assessment system developed by school districts pursuant
15  to W.S. 21-3-110(a)(xxii).  Graduation standards imposed
16  under this paragraph shall require the successful
17  completion of the following components, as evidenced by
18  passing grades or by the successful performance on
19  competency-based equivalency examinations:

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21              (iv)  Establish, in consultation with local
22  school districts, through testing or other means, a
23  requirement for each student to demonstrate mastery of one
24  (1) of three (3) types of proficiency in the common core of

 

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 1  knowledge and skills in order to earn a high school
 2  diploma.;  The three (3) types of proficiency, as
 3  demonstrated through the assessment system implemented by
 4  the district, shall include:

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 6                   (A)  Advanced;

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 8                   (B)  Proficient;

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10                   (C)  Individualized.

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12         21-3-110.  Duties of boards of trustees.

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14         (a)  The board of trustees in each school district
15  shall:

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17              (xxii)  Establish an assessment system to
18  demonstrate types of proficiency in the common core of
19  knowledge and the common core of skills prescribed under
20  W.S. 21-9-101(b), as required for graduation from any high
21  school in the district.

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 1         21-9-101.  Educational programs for schools;
 2  standards; core of knowledge and skills; special needs
 3  programs; class size requirements; cocurricular activities.

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 5         (b)  Each school district within the state shall
 6  provide educational programs sufficient to meet uniform
 7  student performance standards at the level types of
 8  proficiency established by the state board of education in
 9  the following areas of knowledge and skills:

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11         Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2001.

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13                         (END)

 

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