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| 5 | 5 | | 2025 -- H 5594 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC001690 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S T A T E O F R H O D E I S L A N D |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT |
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| 16 | 16 | | INVESTMENT INITIATIVE |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Representatives DeSimone, Biah, Slater, Kazarian, Hull, and O'Brien |
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| 18 | 18 | | Date Introduced: February 26, 2025 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Referred To: House Education |
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| 22 | 22 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. Section 16-7.1-5 of the General Laws in Chapter 16-7.1 entitled "The Paul 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | W. Crowley Rhode Island Student Investment Initiative [See Title 16 Chapter 97 — The Rhode 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Island Board of Education Act]" is hereby amended to read as follows: 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | 16-7.1-5. Intervention and support for failing schools. Intervention and support for 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | individual schools. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) The board of regents shall adopt a series of progressive support and intervention 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | strategies consistent with the Comprehensive Education Strategy and the principles of the “School 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Accountability for Learning and Teaching” (SALT) of the board of regents for those schools and 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | school districts that continue to fall short of performance goals outlined in the district strategic 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | plans. These strategies shall initially focus on: 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) technical assistance in improvement planning, curriculum alignment, student 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | assessment, instruction, and family and community involvement; 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) policy support; 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (3) resource oversight to assess and recommend that each school has adequate resources 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | necessary to meet performance goal; and 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (4) creating supportive partnerships with education institutions, business, governmental, or 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | other appropriate nonprofit agencies. If after a three (3) year period of support there has not been 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | improvement in the education of students as determined by objective criteria to be developed by 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the board of regents, then there shall be progressive levels of control by the department of 1 |
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| 45 | 45 | | elementary and secondary education over the school and/or district budget, program, and/or 2 |
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| 46 | 46 | | personnel. This control by the department of elementary and secondary education may be exercised 3 |
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| 47 | 47 | | in collaboration with the school district and the municipality. If further needed, the school shall be 4 |
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| 48 | 48 | | reconstituted. Reconstitution responsibility is delegated to the board of regents and may range from 5 |
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| 49 | 49 | | restructuring the school’s governance, budget, program, personnel, and/or may include decisions 6 |
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| 50 | 50 | | regarding the continued operation of the school. The board of regents shall assess the district’s 7 |
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| 51 | 51 | | capacity and may recommend the provision of additional district, municipal and/or state resources. 8 |
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| 52 | 52 | | If a school or school district is under the board of regents’ control as a result of actions taken by 9 |
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| 53 | 53 | | the board pursuant to this section, the local school committee shall be responsible for funding that 10 |
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| 54 | 54 | | school or school district at the same level as in the prior academic year increased by the same 11 |
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| 55 | 55 | | percentage as the state total of school aid is increased. This control by the department of elementary 12 |
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| 56 | 56 | | and secondary education may only be exercised in one school district at a time. 13 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (b) For FY 2007, the department shall dedicate one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) 14 |
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| 58 | 58 | | from funds appropriated to support progressive support and intervention and SALT visits to support 15 |
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| 59 | 59 | | the Rhode Island Consortium for Instructional Leadership and Training. This consortium is 16 |
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| 60 | 60 | | engaged in training school leaders to be more effective instructional leaders in the standards based 17 |
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| 61 | 61 | | instruction environment. 18 |
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| 62 | 62 | | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 19 |
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| 69 | 69 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 70 | 70 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 71 | 71 | | OF |
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| 72 | 72 | | A N A C T |
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| 73 | 73 | | RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT |
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| 74 | 74 | | INVESTMENT INITIATIVE |
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| 75 | 75 | | *** |
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| 76 | 76 | | This act would require the board of regents to adopt progressive support and intervention 1 |
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| 77 | 77 | | strategies consistent with the Comprehensive Education Strategy and the principles of the “School 2 |
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| 78 | 78 | | Accountability for Learning and Teaching” (SALT) within one school district at a time. 3 |
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| 79 | 79 | | This act would take effect upon passage. 4 |
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