HB 2556 Summary

• Abolishes county school superintendent offices in counties with populations exceeding a specified threshold, while allowing existing superintendents to serve out their terms.

• Transfers personnel hiring, compensation, and disciplinary decisions from school district governing boards to individual school principals, making hired personnel school district employees.

• Prohibits school districts from transporting students to other school districts except for authorized field trips, athletic events, or extracurricular activities.

• Reduces Arizona Department of Education to a maximum of 70 full-time equivalent employees, plus up to 150 additional employees dedicated to federal funds management whose offices must be located in state-owned buildings.

• Requires written agreements between principals, teachers, and parents/guardians that detail their respective duties; restricts schools from denying enrollment based on prior district enrollment after a specified date, with per-pupil funding remaining with the original school.