School accountability.
Summary
Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2017-2018 school year. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2019-2020 school year is the higher of the school's or school corporation's: (1) category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned for the 2018-2019 school year; or (2) category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2019-2020 school year. Provides that consequences for school improvement do not apply for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school years. Provides that ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement would improve the particular certificated employee's annual performance rating.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Jan 2020
Senate Passage
Jan 2020
House Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Feb 2020
Introduced Jan 6, 2020
Signed Feb 12, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Jan 13, 2020 · House Feb 3, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 41
Jan 13, 2020
D
Democratic8
100% Yea
R
Republican33
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
27
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Amendments
2
Feb 12, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Feb 4, 2020
Introduced
Returned to the Senate without amendments
lower
Feb 3, 2020
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (84-0-8)
house
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (40-0-1)
senate
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Referred to the House
upper
Jan 9, 2020
Amended
Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 6: yeas 8, nays 37
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
upper
4 primary · 7 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Dale DeVon
RRepublican
P
Dennis Kruse
RRepublican
P
Jeff Raatz
RRepublican
P
Rod Bray
RRepublican
Co
Blake Doriot
RRepublican
Co
CK
Cindy Kirchhofer
RRepublican
Co
Eddie Melton
DDemocratic
Co
JR
John Ruckelshaus
RRepublican
Co
Linda Rogers
RRepublican
Co
Martin Carbaugh
RRepublican
Co
Vernon Smith
DDemocratic
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