Session of 2023
SENATE BILL No. 184
By Senator Holscher
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AN ACT concerning education; relating to certain nonpublic schools;
requiring participation in state assessments; requiring website
publication of performance accountability and longitudinal
achievement reports; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5178 and
repealing the existing section.
WHEREAS, This act shall be known as the consumer research and
transparency act.
Now, therefore:
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. (a) Each nonpublic school in this state shall
administer the statewide assessments provided by the state board of
education in K.S.A. 72-5170, and amendments thereto, to students
enrolled in the appropriate grades for each such assessment at such school.
(b) As used in this section, "nonpublic school" means an accredited or
nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school. "Nonpublic school"
does not include a home school or home school organization, community
consortium or group.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5178 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 72-5178. (a) On or before January 15 of each year, the state
department of education shall prepare and digitally update on the website
of the state department of education the performance accountability reports
and longitudinal achievement reports upon all students enrolled in any
public school or accredited nonpublic school in the state, each school
district, each school operated by a school district and each accredited
nonpublic school.
(b) Each performance accountability report shall be prepared in a
single-page format containing the information that is required to be
reported under the federal elementary and secondary education act, as
amended by the federal every student succeeds act, public law 114-95, or
any successor federal acts, and the college and career readiness metrics
developed and implemented by the state board. The report shall use the
categories for achievement identified under the federal every student
succeeds act, public law 114-95, or any successor achievement categories.
All categories and metrics included in the report shall be clearly defined.
(c) Each longitudinal achievement report shall provide the
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achievement rates on the state assessments for English language arts, math
and science for all students and each student subgroup and the change in
achievement rate year-over-year starting with the school year in which the
state board first implemented new achievement standards on such state
assessments.
(d) On or before January 15 of each year, the state department of
education shall prepare written academic achievement reports to provide a
summary of student achievement in this state and shall submit such reports
to the governor and the legislature. Such written academic achievement
reports shall:
(1) Provide a statewide summary of the performance accountability
reports and longitudinal achievement reports prepared pursuant to this
section. Such summary report shall provide:
(A) Achievement data from the English language arts assessments
and math assessments over the preceding five years for all students and
student subgroups to show whether there are statewide trends in academic
improvement or learning loss among all students and student subgroups;
(B) a comparison to any other evaluation metric used by the state
board of education to evaluate student achievement such as college and
career readiness measurements or graduation rates;
(C) a comparison to other educational assessments that measure
academic performance such as the national assessment of educational
progress;
(D) an analysis of the trends in student achievement outcomes and a
review of conditions that are impacting recent student achievement
outcomes;
(E) a review of the academic interventions that school districts are
using to improve student performance, whether the state board of
education has any specific recommendations regarding academic
interventions to improve academic achievement and an estimation of the
academic achievement gains that can be expected from such interventions;
and
(F) a summary of the performance levels and the scale and cut scores
for the statewide assessments and how such information should be used to
draw conclusions about student achievement; and
(2) provide a student-focused longitudinal achievement report that
provides information on the academic achievement of certain student
cohort groups to show the achievement gains or learning losses that are
occurring for such students. Such report shall begin with the students who
are entering grade three and grade eight in school year 2022-2023. The
report shall summarize the longitudinal achievement of such students over
a three-year period and shall be repeated every three years for the students
entering such grade levels. The longitudinal report shall provide:
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(A) A summary of the improvement or learning loss that is occurring
within such student cohort groups over such three-year period for all such
students and the student subgroups;
(B) an analysis of the evaluations and metrics that are used to
measure the year-over-year achievement of such student cohort groups;
(C) a review of the academic interventions that school districts are
using to improve student performance within such student cohort groups,
whether the state board of education has any specific recommendations
regarding academic interventions to improve academic achievement and
an estimate of the academic achievement gains that can be expected from
such interventions; and
(D) the achievement results from the English language arts
assessments and math assessments for such student cohort groups and any
other assessment data pertaining to such student cohort groups, including,
but not limited to, the national assessment for educational progress, the
ACT college entrance exam and the pre-ACT assessment.
(d) All reports prepared pursuant to this section shall be published in
accordance with K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-1181, and amendments thereto.
(e) As used in this section, "nonpublic school" means an accredited
or nonaccredited private school that regularly offers education at the
elementary or secondary level. "Nonpublic school" does not include a
home school or home school organization, community, consortium or
group.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5178 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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