Agenda - 09-28-2017 - 7. Information Item - NCSBA 2017 Legislative Summary

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performance grades and scores under 115C-83.15 for ESSA compliance. Makes the following specific changes: • Adds to the school performance score and grade a student's progress in achieving English language proficiency (one point is awarded for each 1% of students who progress in this area). • Awards separate performance scores and grades for the school performance of subgroups of students such as children with disabilities, English learners, economically disadvantaged students, and racial/ethnic groups (reported separately on annual school report card). • Adds the participation and test results from the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) to high school annual report cards (Added by the budget technical corrections bill). • Defines the School Growth Score as a measure of school quality and student success. • Eliminates a school's option to solely use its school achievement score to calculate its performance score and grade (previously allowed for schools that met expected growth but school growth score reduced overall performance score and grade). • Places annual report card information on the DPI web site. G.S. 115C-12(9), -47(58), -83.15, -83.16, -83.17, -105.37, -105.39A, -218.65, -238.66(11); 116- 239.8(14). Section 7.26A Clarify Student Consent to Receive College, University, and Scholarship Information Allows a website operator to provide student information to scholarship providers and nonprofit colleges and universities if the parent or student, aged 13 or older,provides written consent. G.S. 115C-401.2(e). Section 7.26B Career and College Ready Literacy Skills /Reading Improvement Commission Provides that a student seeking a high school diploma endorsement must pass a national college admission test for reading. Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a Reading Improvement Commission to study and recommend best practices to improve reading comprehension, understanding and application for students in grades 4-12. Allows the Superintendent to appoint the Commission members and to use $200,000 of his existing budget for Commission expenses in FY 2017-18. G.S. 115C-12(40). Section 7.26C Nationally Norm-Referenced College Admissions Test Replaces the ACT test provided to all eleventh-grade students (to the extent funds are made available)with a nationally norm-referenced college admission test determined through a competitive bid process. Uses the same test to replace the ACT test used in eighth and tenth grades to see if students are on track to be remediation-free at a community college or university. G.S. 115C-174.11(c)(4), -174.22. Section 7.26E North Carolina Innovative School District Renames the Achievement School District as the North Carolina Innovative School District (ISD) and makes the following changes: 20