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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
HOUSE BILL 3244 By: Nichols
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; directing the Oklahoma
State Regents for Higher Education to establish an
education partnership gra nt program; subjecting
program to the availability of funds; describing
program purpose; prescribing duties for program
oversight to the State Regents; requiring alignment
with existing programs; mandating grant reci pient
programming to address certain iss ues; providing for
consultation with grant recipients to develop and
measure indicators and outcomes of programs;
establishing program requirements; directing biennial
report on education partnership program to certain
elected officials; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.559 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in n umbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall
establish a grant program, subject to the availability of funds,
supporting a coalition of coordinated, aligned education
partnerships, for a comprehensive network of evidence -based support
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services designed to close opportunity gaps by improving educational
and developmental outcomes of students and their families within
communities experiencing poverty and impediments to economic
viability.
B. The State Regents shall establish education partnership
program requirements, an application process and timeline for
grants, criteria for evaluation of applications, and a grant awards
process. The process shall minimize administrative costs, mini mize
burdens for applicants and grant recip ients, and provide a framework
that permits flexibility in program design and implementation among
grant recipients.
C. The education partnership program shall align with programs
implemented or proposed by organ izations in the state that:
1. Identify and increase the capacity of organizations that are
focused on achieving data -driven, locally controlled, positive
outcomes for children and youth throughout an entire neighborhood or
geographic area;
2. Build a continuum of educational family and community
supports with academically rigorous schools at the center;
3. Maximize program efficiencies by integrating programmatic
activities and eliminating administra tive barriers;
4. Develop local infrastructure needed to sustain and scale up
proven and effective solutions beyond the initial neighborhood or
geographic area;
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5. Utilize appropriate outcome measures based on unique
community needs and interests and app ly rigorous evaluation on a
periodic basis to be used to both monitor outcomes and allow for
continuous improvements to systems;
6. Collect and utilize data to improve student outcomes;
7. Share disaggregated performance data with the community to
set community-level outcomes;
8. Employ continuous improvem ent processes;
9. Have a tribal entity, co mmunity foundation, higher education
institution, or community -based organization as an anchor entity
managing the partnership;
10. Convene a cross-sector leadership group and have a
documented accountability str ucture; and
11. Demonstrate use of private funds, from multiple sources,
including in-kind contributions.
D. A grant recipient's supportive service s programming shall
address:
1. Kindergarten readiness and youth development;
2. Third grade reading proficiency;
3. Middle school or junior high mathematics;
4. High school graduation;
5. Postsecondary educational enrollment;
6. Postsecondary education completion or attainment;
7. Physical and mental health;
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8. Development of career skills and readines s;
9. Parental engagement and development;
10. Community engagement and programmatic alignment; and
11. Reduction of remedial education.
E. The State Regents, in consultation with grant recipients,
shall:
1. Develop and revise core indicators of progr ess toward
outcomes specifying program impacts;
2. Establish a reporting system for grant recipients to measure
program outcomes using data sources and program goals; and
3. Evaluate effectiveness based on the core indicators
established by each partners hip.
F. A grant recipient's education partnership program in the
planning, development, or implementation phase shall include:
1. Integrated supportive services programming, as provided in
subsection D of this section, within a specific community or
geographic area for all ages of children and youth and their
families within that area, provided that services may be phased in
to all ages over time; and
2. A system for evaluating goals and outcomes as pr ovided in
subsection E of this section .
G. By December 15 of each odd-numbered year, the State Regents
shall submit a report on the education partnership program to the
Speaker and Minority Leader of the Oklahoma House of
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Representatives, President Pro Tempore and Mino rity Leader of the
Oklahoma State Senate, and the Governor. At a minimum, the report
shall summarize grantee ac tivities, identify grant recipients and
awards, analyze program performance measures and outcomes, and make
any recommendations for legi slative changes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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