Accountibility+Senate+Bill+163

1. SB 163 rules, pages 19-28 outline the requirements for district plans, and pages 37-46 outline the requirements for school plans. The relevant language is that all plans must “identify implementation benchmarks and interim targets and measures to assess whether the identified strategies are carried out with fidelity.” [|1CCR301-1AdminofStatewideAccountability (4.15.10).pdf]
 * Accountibility -- Senate Bill 163 -- Regarding Interim Assessment Mandates for Districts**

2. SB 163 guidance (“District Accountability Handbook”), which defines an interim measure as “A measure (and associated metric) used to assess, for the level of a given performance indicator, at various times during a school year.” [|District Accountability Handbook V 1.4 (7.21.10).pdf]

3. Guidance for Alternative Education Campuses, indicating how AECs and their authorizers should select and submit appropriate measures for AECs to be evaluated in the areas of student achievement, student longitudinal growth, postsecondary and workforce readiness, and student engagement. [|Policy Guidance-Accountability for Alternative Education Campuses (7.20.10).docx]

4. Guidance and transmittal forms for districts to submit additional data so that CDE will reconsider district accreditation categories and school plan type assignments. (This is optional, for those districts that disagree with the initial recommendation CDE makes concerning accreditation categories and school plan type assignments and wish for the state to consider data other than the data included in the regular district and school performance framework.) [|SubmittingSchoolAccreditationandRequeststoReconsider[1.pdf]]