Kansas 2023-2024 Regular Session

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1	1	Session of 2023
2	2	SENATE BILL No. 184
3	3	By Senator Holscher
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5	5	AN ACT concerning education; relating to certain nonpublic schools;
6	6	requiring participation in state assessments; requiring website
7	7	publication of performance accountability and longitudinal
8	8	achievement reports; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5178 and
9	9	repealing the existing section.
10	10	WHEREAS, This act shall be known as the consumer research and
11	11	transparency act.
12	12	Now, therefore:
13	13	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14	14	New Section 1. (a) Each nonpublic school in this state shall
15	15	administer the statewide assessments provided by the state board of
16	16	education in K.S.A. 72-5170, and amendments thereto, to students
17	17	enrolled in the appropriate grades for each such assessment at such school.
18	18	(b) As used in this section, "nonpublic school" means an accredited or
19	19	nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school. "Nonpublic school"
20	20	does not include a home school or home school organization, community
21	21	consortium or group.
22	22	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5178 is hereby amended to read as
23	23	follows: 72-5178. (a) On or before January 15 of each year, the state
24	24	department of education shall prepare and digitally update on the website
25	25	of the state department of education the performance accountability reports
26	26	and longitudinal achievement reports upon all students enrolled in any
27	27	public school or accredited nonpublic school in the state, each school
28	28	district, each school operated by a school district and each accredited
29	29	nonpublic school.
30	30	(b) Each performance accountability report shall be prepared in a
31	31	single-page format containing the information that is required to be
32	32	reported under the federal elementary and secondary education act, as
33	33	amended by the federal every student succeeds act, public law 114-95, or
34	34	any successor federal acts, and the college and career readiness metrics
35	35	developed and implemented by the state board. The report shall use the
36	36	categories for achievement identified under the federal every student
37	37	succeeds act, public law 114-95, or any successor achievement categories.
38	38	All categories and metrics included in the report shall be clearly defined.
39	39	(c) Each longitudinal achievement report shall provide the
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76	76	achievement rates on the state assessments for English language arts, math
77	77	and science for all students and each student subgroup and the change in
78	78	achievement rate year-over-year starting with the school year in which the
79	79	state board first implemented new achievement standards on such state
80	80	assessments.
81	81	(d) On or before January 15 of each year, the state department of
82	82	education shall prepare written academic achievement reports to provide a
83	83	summary of student achievement in this state and shall submit such reports
84	84	to the governor and the legislature. Such written academic achievement
85	85	reports shall:
86	86	(1) Provide a statewide summary of the performance accountability
87	87	reports and longitudinal achievement reports prepared pursuant to this
88	88	section. Such summary report shall provide:
89	89	(A) Achievement data from the English language arts assessments
90	90	and math assessments over the preceding five years for all students and
91	91	student subgroups to show whether there are statewide trends in academic
92	92	improvement or learning loss among all students and student subgroups;
93	93	(B) a comparison to any other evaluation metric used by the state
94	94	board of education to evaluate student achievement such as college and
95	95	career readiness measurements or graduation rates;
96	96	(C) a comparison to other educational assessments that measure
97	97	academic performance such as the national assessment of educational
98	98	progress;
99	99	(D) an analysis of the trends in student achievement outcomes and a
100	100	review of conditions that are impacting recent student achievement
101	101	outcomes;
102	102	(E) a review of the academic interventions that school districts are
103	103	using to improve student performance, whether the state board of
104	104	education has any specific recommendations regarding academic
105	105	interventions to improve academic achievement and an estimation of the
106	106	academic achievement gains that can be expected from such interventions;
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108	108	(F) a summary of the performance levels and the scale and cut scores
109	109	for the statewide assessments and how such information should be used to
110	110	draw conclusions about student achievement; and
111	111	(2) provide a student-focused longitudinal achievement report that
112	112	provides information on the academic achievement of certain student
113	113	cohort groups to show the achievement gains or learning losses that are
114	114	occurring for such students. Such report shall begin with the students who
115	115	are entering grade three and grade eight in school year 2022-2023. The
116	116	report shall summarize the longitudinal achievement of such students over
117	117	a three-year period and shall be repeated every three years for the students
118	118	entering such grade levels. The longitudinal report shall provide:
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162	162	(A) A summary of the improvement or learning loss that is occurring
163	163	within such student cohort groups over such three-year period for all such
164	164	students and the student subgroups;
165	165	(B) an analysis of the evaluations and metrics that are used to
166	166	measure the year-over-year achievement of such student cohort groups;
167	167	(C) a review of the academic interventions that school districts are
168	168	using to improve student performance within such student cohort groups,
169	169	whether the state board of education has any specific recommendations
170	170	regarding academic interventions to improve academic achievement and
171	171	an estimate of the academic achievement gains that can be expected from
172	172	such interventions; and
173	173	(D) the achievement results from the English language arts
174	174	assessments and math assessments for such student cohort groups and any
175	175	other assessment data pertaining to such student cohort groups, including,
176	176	but not limited to, the national assessment for educational progress, the
177	177	ACT college entrance exam and the pre-ACT assessment.
178	178	(d) All reports prepared pursuant to this section shall be published in
179	179	accordance with K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-1181, and amendments thereto.
180	180	(e) As used in this section, "nonpublic school" means an accredited
181	181	or nonaccredited private school that regularly offers education at the
182	182	elementary or secondary level. "Nonpublic school" does not include a
183	183	home school or home school organization, community, consortium or
184	184	group.
185	185	Sec. 3. K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5178 is hereby repealed.
186	186	Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
187	187	publication in the statute book.
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