| Purpose/Objective of Rule |
The basic purposes of the Education Accountability Act of 2009 are:
To provide a process for the State Board of Education to fulfill its constitutional responsibility for supervising the Public Schools of the state;
To focus the attention of educators, parents, students and other members of the community on maximizing every student?s progress toward Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness and post graduation success;To report information concerning performance at the State level, School District or Institute level and individual Public School level that is perceived by educators, parents and students as fair, balanced, cumulative, credible and useful;
To provide more academic performance information, and fewer labels, to move from a punitive accountability system to one that is positive and focused on learning and achieving high levels of academic performance;
To hold the State, School Districts, the Institute and individual Public Schools accountable for performance on the same set of indicators and related measures statewide; To ensure performance indicators and measures are aligned through a single accountability system to the extent possible that objectively evaluates the performance of the thorough and uniform statewide system of public education for all groups of students at the State, School District or Institute and individual Public School levels and, as appropriate, reward success and provide support for improvement at each level;
To employ a differentiated approach to state intervention based on performance and need, whereby demonstration of high performance results in greater autonomy and demonstration of high need results in greater support and intervention. |