HB47 Alabama 2020 Session

Updated Feb 12, 2020

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Artis McCampbellRepresentative
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2020
Title: Education, school grading system, change designation of a failing school to a challenged school, nonfailing school to a nonchallenged school, State Board of Education required to reflect changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules, Secs. 16-6C-2, 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, 16-6D-9 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a public K-12 school or school district that is determined to have poor performance is labeled by the State Superintendent of Education as failing to make adequate progress or as a failing school under the school grading system.
Also under existing law, the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013, provides financial assistance through an income tax credit to a parent who transfers a student from a failing public school to a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school of the parent's choice.
This bill would change the designation of a failing school to a challenged school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a nonchallenged school for the purposes of school grading and the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013, and would require the State Board of Education to reflect those changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules.
Subjects: Education

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy