Revision: Feb. 18, 2021, 10:59 a.m.
Rep. Ladd, Graf. 4
February 8, 2021
2021-0262h
06/11
Amendment to HB 242
Amend the bill by replacing section 5 with the following:
5 Substantive Educational Content of an Adequate Education; Definition of Academic Standards. Amend RSA 193-E:2-a, VI to read as follows:
VI. In this section:
(a) "Minimum standards for public school approval" mean the applicable criteria that public schools and public academies shall meet in order to be an approved school, as adopted by the state board of education through administrative rules.
(b) "Academic standards" means what a student should know and be able to do in a course, program, or at each grade level.
(c) "Curriculum" means the lessons and academic content taught in school or in a specific course or program.
(d) “Rigorous academic study” means a course, program, or grade level program aligned with curriculum standards and school approval standards.
(e) “Applied learning” means an educational approach whereby students have the opportunity to directly engage in learning activities using knowledge and skills, theories, and models that may be outside of the traditional classroom experience or embedded as part of a course, program, or grade level program.
(f) “Logic” means a reasoning skill that better enables a student: to analyze problems in core knowledge domains such as mathematics and to develop problem solutions; to better understand the principle of cause and effect; and to develop critical thinking skills to better identify fact from unverified information or data.
(g) “Rhetoric” means the skill of speaking and writing as a means of communication or persuasion.
Amend RSA 193-E:2-b, I(c) as inserted by section 6 of the bill by replacing it with the following:
(c) Are economically disadvantaged, or attend schools with significant concentrations of economically disadvantaged students. The cost of fiscal capacity disparity aid is a separate grant from adequacy and shall be provided to municipalities with the lowest equalized property valuations per pupil. An additional disparity achievement proficiency aid grant shall be provided to eligible school districts, schools and charter public schools to improve academic achievement and growth of level 1 and level 2 proficiency students as identified in the annual statewide assessment pursuant to RSA193-C:6.
Amend RSA 193-E:3-b,I(e) as inserted by section 8 of the bill by replacing it with the following:
(e) The commissioner of the department of education shall require any school that is unable to demonstrate that it provides the opportunity for an adequate education through the input-based school accountability system to resubmit the narrative explanations annually until such demonstration has been made. The commissioner shall provide the legislative oversight committee identified in RSA 193-C:2 with an annual status report by November 1. The report shall include any school that is unable to demonstrate that it provides an opportunity for an adequate education through the input-based school accountability system. Notice of this status shall be posted on the school, school district, or chartered school websites. The school, school district or chartered public school shall provide written notice of such status to parents or guardians of students enrolled in the affected school.
Amend the bill by replacing section 9 with the following: