This week, I filed HB 1822, which is my attempt to fix the current and pending problems with the state's transfer issue for failing school districts.
HB1822 establishes that the State Board will intervene with a district as soon as it is rated as a Provisional District. The intervention means it ‘shall’ intervene with individualized improvement measures based on the districts and community’s needs. The state will also assign every building in the provisional district an accreditation classification. It ‘may’ work with the district to develop interventions specific to those underperforming schools. It also ‘may’ transfer the underperforming buildings to the State Achievement District.
If progress to accreditation is not made to 70% within 5 years the district ‘shall’ be classified as unaccredited. At that time the state board ‘shall’ transfer the underperforming buildings to the Achievement District.
The State Achievement District will be a sub division of the state. 3 board members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate.(defined in 162.1110 of HB1822)
