HB30 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Artis McCampbell Representative

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

To amend Sections 16-6C-2, as amended by Act 2022-374, 2022 Regular Session, 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, and 16-6D-9, as amended by Act 2022-390, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the public K-12 school grading system and the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to change the designation of a failing school to a lowest sixth percent school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a highest 94th percent school; and to require the State Board of Education to reflect those changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules.

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 lowest sixth percent school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a highest 94th percent 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.

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