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MN HF2658
Bill
Status
3/5/2012
Primary Sponsor
Connie Doepke
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AI Summary
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Clarifies that education site achievement contracts must focus on individualized learning goals for each student, including their specific educational needs, aptitudes, and academic levels rather than uniform performance expectations.
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Requires school boards to use student performance data to diagnose academic strengths and weaknesses and tailor instruction to each student's needs, organized by subject area strands and linked to state and local academic standards.
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Directs school districts with sites demonstrating at least three consecutive school years of improved student achievement under an achievement contract to seek similar contracts with other school sites in the district.
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Requires achievement contracts to address four specific purposes: setting individualized learning goals, recognizing each student's needs and aptitudes, using performance data to guide instruction, and assisting sites that fail to achieve agreed-upon goals.
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Establishes that approved site decision-making agreements and achievement contracts must be filed with the commissioner of education.
Legislative Description
Individualized learning schools creation provided; site-governed school, postsecondary enrollment options, and charter school provisions modified.
Last Action
Second reading
3/21/2012