HB 12-1345 Summary

• School Funding: Sets statewide base per pupil funding at $5,843.26 for 2012-13 budget year and increases total program funding to $5,286,898,382.

• Early Literacy Assessment: Requires purchase of early literacy assessment tool software and training for kindergarten through third grade students to identify reading deficiencies and create intervention plans.

• Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAPs): Mandates schools develop and maintain ICAPs for all students by ninth grade, including basic skills test scores and postsecondary readiness assessments.

• School Discipline and Safety: Establishes conduct and discipline codes requiring proportionate disciplinary responses, prohibits inflexible zero-tolerance policies, encourages restorative justice practices, and mandates reporting of student arrests and law enforcement activities at schools.

• At-Risk Supplemental Aid: Creates funding for school districts and charter schools serving higher percentages of at-risk students, with appropriations of approximately $3.8 million from audit recoveries.