0001| HOUSE BILL 262 | 0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998 | 0003| INTRODUCED BY | 0004| BOBBIE K. MALLORY | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| AN ACT | 0011| RELATING TO EDUCATION; REQUIRING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO | 0012| ADMINISTER NORM-REFERENCED TESTS OR STANDARDS-BASED | 0013| ASSESSMENTS TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS; PROVIDING | 0014| FOR THE REPORTING OF TEST OR ASSESSMENT RESULTS TO THE STATE | 0015| DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. | 0016| | 0017| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0018| Section 1. Section 22-1-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1989, | 0019| Chapter 308, Section 1, as amended by Laws 1997, Chapter 261, | 0020| Section 1) is amended to read: | 0021| "22-1-6. ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT | 0022| REQUIRED.-- | 0023| A. School districts shall be required to publish | 0024| an annual school district accountability report to provide | 0025| district-wide data for the previous school year. The state | - 1 - 0001| board shall establish the format for the accountability | 0002| reports and ensure that the relevant data is provided annually | 0003| to parents, students, educators, policymakers, legislators, | 0004| the governor and business and economic development | 0005| organizations. The department of education shall establish | 0006| the following five indices through which public school | 0007| performance shall be measured and reported to school | 0008| districts: | 0009| (1) student achievement as measured by a | 0010| nationally norm-referenced test approved by the department of | 0011| education or through a performance-based instrument to measure | 0012| proficiency; | 0013| (2) school safety; | 0014| (3) the drop-out rate; | 0015| (4) attendance; and | 0016| (5) parent and community involvement. | 0017| The department of education shall establish the | 0018| methodology for measuring each of the five indices. | 0019| B. Effective July 1, 1998, school districts shall | 0020| annually administer a nationally norm-referenced test or a | 0021| standards-based assessment to a student enrolled in a public | 0022| school in grades one, three, five and seven unless the student | 0023| is incapable of taking the test due to a profound disability. | 0024| School districts shall report the following to the department | 0025| of education: | - 2 - 0001| (1) the results of the norm-referenced test | 0002| or standards-based assessment; | 0003| (2) the number of enrolled students who did | 0004| not take the test, the school in which they are enrolled and | 0005| the reason for the exemption from the test; and | 0006| (3) as part of the aggregate report and | 0007| separately, the results of assessments of students enrolled in | 0008| special education class A, B, C and D programs who took the | 0009| test and the school in which they are enrolled. | 0010| C. Effective July 1, 1999, school districts shall | 0011| annually administer a nationally norm-referenced test or a | 0012| standards-based assessment to a student enrolled in a public | 0013| school in grades one through eight unless the student is | 0014| incapable of taking the test due to a profound disability. | 0015| School districts shall report the following to the department | 0016| of education: | 0017| (1) the results of the norm-referenced | 0018| test or standards-based assessment; | 0019| (2) the number of enrolled students who | 0020| did not take the test, the school in which they are enrolled | 0021| and the reason for the exemption from the test; and | 0022| (3) as part of the aggregate report and | 0023| separately, the results of assessments of students enrolled in | 0024| special education class A, B, C and D programs who took the | 0025| test and the school in which they are enrolled. | - 3 - 0001| ~~[B.]~~ D. School districts shall set two-, four- | 0002| and six-year benchmarks in each of the five indices for each | 0003| public school. Local school boards may establish additional | 0004| indices, if reviewed by the department of education, through | 0005| which to measure the school district's performance in other | 0006| areas. | 0007| ~~[C.]~~ E. The annual accountability report shall | 0008| also include the results of a survey of parents' views of the | 0009| quality of their children's school. The survey shall be | 0010| conducted each year in time to include the results in the | 0011| annual accountability report. The survey shall compile the | 0012| results of a written questionnaire that shall be sent home | 0013| with the students to be given to their parents. The survey | 0014| may be completed anonymously. The survey shall be no more | 0015| than one page, shall be clearly and concisely written and | 0016| shall include not more than twenty questions that shall be | 0017| answered with options of a simple sliding scale ranging from | 0018| "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" and shall include the | 0019| optional response "don't know". The survey shall also include | 0020| a request for optional written comments, which may be written | 0021| on the back of the questionnaire form. The questionnaire | 0022| shall include questions in the following areas: | 0023| (1) parent-teacher-school relationship and | 0024| communication; | 0025| (2) quality of educational and | - 4 - 0001| extracurricular programs; | 0002| (3) instructional practices and techniques; | 0003| (4) resources; | 0004| (5) school personnel, including the school | 0005| principal; and | 0006| (6) parents' view of teaching staff | 0007| expectations for the students. | 0008| The state board shall develop no more than ten of the | 0009| questions which shall be reviewed by the legislative education | 0010| study committee prior to implementation. No more than five | 0011| questions shall be developed by the local school board and no | 0012| more than five questions shall be developed by the staffs of | 0013| each individual school site, provided that at least half of | 0014| those questions are developed by teachers rather than | 0015| administrators, in order to gather information that is | 0016| specific to the particular community surveyed. The | 0017| questionnaires shall indicate the public school site and shall | 0018| be tabulated by the department of education within thirty days | 0019| of receipt and shall be returned to the respective schools to | 0020| be disseminated to all parents. | 0021| ~~[D.]~~ F. The annual accountability report for | 0022| each school district shall be adopted by the local school | 0023| board, may be published no later than November 15 of each year | 0024| and may be published at least once each school year in a | 0025| newspaper of general circulation in the county where the | - 5 - 0001| school district is located. In publication, the report shall | 0002| be titled "the school district report card" and disseminated | 0003| in accordance with guidelines established by the state board | 0004| to ensure effective communication with parents, students, | 0005| educators, local policymakers and business and community | 0006| organizations. | 0007| ~~[E.]~~ G. The department of education shall | 0008| create an accountability data system through which data from | 0009| each public school and each school district may be compiled | 0010| and reviewed. The department of education shall provide the | 0011| resources to train school district personnel in the use of the | 0012| accountability data system. | 0013| ~~[F.]~~ H. The department of education shall | 0014| verify data submitted by the school districts. | 0015| ~~[G.]~~ I. The state board shall measure the | 0016| performance of every public school in New Mexico. Public | 0017| schools achieving the highest level of performance shall be | 0018| eligible for supplemental incentive funding. The state board | 0019| shall establish the corrective actions and interventions | 0020| necessary for public schools whose performance level is low." | 0021| |