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2._ 1 question is can a positive, corporate culture be created within the walls of the schools. 2 Achievement for all students is the goal of this bill. Normally the greater successes 3 in schools can be tracked along racial and/or economic lines. This bill attempts to 4 create a better, more professional work environment for those who try to educate children. 5 Flexible funding is another option in the bill. Local goals will be set by each system 6 and then by each school in the system. Student achievement is the criteria here and it 7 needs to be improved through the new goals set. 8 9 Each school system decided which options to use. If the differentiated pay plan was 10 chosen the instructional personnel, the instructional support staff and administrators 11 were included in the plan. This was voted upon by 411 affected schools. Each school 12 did not have to participate but each school had to vote on this option. 13 14 Ms. House indicated that there were several options for adopting Senate Bill II 15 including not using any portion of this Bill, using the Performance Based and Flexible 16 Pay portions only, or participating in everything but the Flexible Pay Plan. Chapel 17 Hill/Carrboro and Orange County chose to participate in Flexible Funding and the 18 Differentiated Pay Plan. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro and the Orange County School Systems 19 Improvement and Accountability Plans are on file in the permanent agenda file in the 20 Clerk's office. 21 22 The first part of the Bill dealt with Performance Based Student Accountability. Local 23 School District Improvement Plans were incorporated by each school into a personalized 24 Improvement Plan to help reach the goal of student accountability. The next part of the 25 Bill is the Differentiated Pay Plan which allows for instructional and support staff •° 26 receive additional compensation. This Bill allows for greater flexibility in performanc= ` 27 of one's job in return for greater student performance accountability. Alternative 28 approaches are encouraged under this Bill and the state's mandate does not need to be 29 followed in all instances. Creativity in problem solving was encouraged. 30 31 Dr. Lunsford presented an overview of Orange County schools' Implementation Plan for 32 Senate Bill II. This plan has been submitted to the State but it has not yet been 33 approved. Orange County schools have 37 Student Performance goals. Those goals are listed 34 in this Plan which is in the permanent agenda file in the Clerk's office. He mentioned 35 that one goal they have been striving toward even before Senate Bill II is the attendance 36 averages in grades K-12 and they have been making significant progress. The issue of 37 dropouts is also of critical importance. Last year they reduced this dropout rate by 38 30%+. The overall goal is to have a dropout rate no higher than the state average. He 39 also mentioned that the competency testing goals for mathematics and writing 40 objective/essay are going to cause all school systems some difficulty. This difficulty 41 is that the State staff has established a standard but they have changed the way that the 42 competency is measured. This will throw the data collection off for the next three years. 43 He pointed out the importance of the statistical data which is listed in the plan as 44 Student Performance Goals Annual Benchmarks. 45 46 Commissioner Hartwell indicated that he had been told of a general trend toward moving 47 away from the California Achievement Tests and toward end-of-course testing. He asked 48 who would create the end-of-course test? 49 50 Lunsford indicated that the Legislation calls for State Board's staff to create tb- 51 end-of-course and end-of-grade tests. The intent of the end-of-course test is to hay 52 a body of questions that will focus on the specific competency outlined in the state