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