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2019 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XV - Education
Chapter 193-E - Adequate Public Education
Section 193-E:3-c - Performance-Based Accountability System.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 193-E:3-c (2019)
193-E:3-c Performance-Based Accountability System. –
I. At least every 4 years the commissioner shall review the performance-based accountability system and make recommendations to the legislative oversight committee established under RSA 193-C:7. The commissioner may establish a task force to assist with this review. The commissioner, or designee, shall be the chairman of the task force and shall appoint no fewer than 9 and no more than 13 members to the task force which shall consist of department personnel, one or more representatives of a school district including at least one school board member, educational experts, parents or guardians of current public school pupils, members of a public interest group concerned with education, members of the business community, and other individuals with information or expertise of benefit to the task force's duties. The task force shall include one member of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and one member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
II. The task force shall have the following duties:
(a) Implement the performance-based accountability system to be used by schools that will ensure that the opportunity for an adequate education is maintained.
(b) Identify performance criteria and measurements.
(c) Establish performance goals and the relative weights assigned to those goals.
(d) Establish the basis, taking into account the totality of the performance measurements, for determining whether the opportunity for an adequate education exists, which may include the assignment of a value for performance on each measurement.
(e) Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and validity of the performance methodology as a means of establishing that a school provided the opportunity for an adequate education as defined in RSA 193-E:2-a.
III. The performance-based accountability system, as recommended by the task force, shall be based on data and indicators aligned to the New Hampshire consolidated state plan, as required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 20 U.S.C. section 6301 et seq. as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act. This plan shall be approved by the legislative oversight committee established in RSA 193-C:7.
IV. The task force shall submit a report of its findings with recommendations for future legislation for the performance-based accountability system to the legislative oversight committee established under RSA 193-C:7. After the report is approved by the legislative oversight committee the department shall submit the report to the chairpersons of the house and senate education committees, the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the governor, the house clerk, and the senate clerk.
V. The department shall annually prepare a detailed report documenting the results of each school on the performance-based school accountability system to be developed pursuant to this section, and identifying all schools that can demonstrate the opportunity for an adequate education through the performance-based methodology. The report shall be submitted no later than January 15 annually to the same individuals receiving the final report under paragraph IV.
I. At least every 4 years the commissioner shall review the performance-based accountability system and make recommendations to the legislative oversight committee established under RSA 193-C:7. The commissioner may establish a task force to assist with this review. The commissioner, or designee, shall be the chairman of the task force and shall appoint no fewer than 9 and no more than 13 members to the task force which shall consist of department personnel, one or more representatives of a school district including at least one school board member, educational experts, parents or guardians of current public school pupils, members of a public interest group concerned with education, members of the business community, and other individuals with information or expertise of benefit to the task force's duties. The task force shall include one member of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and one member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
II. The task force shall have the following duties:
(a) Implement the performance-based accountability system to be used by schools that will ensure that the opportunity for an adequate education is maintained.
(b) Identify performance criteria and measurements.
(c) Establish performance goals and the relative weights assigned to those goals.
(d) Establish the basis, taking into account the totality of the performance measurements, for determining whether the opportunity for an adequate education exists, which may include the assignment of a value for performance on each measurement.
(e) Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and validity of the performance methodology as a means of establishing that a school provided the opportunity for an adequate education as defined in RSA 193-E:2-a.
III. The performance-based accountability system, as recommended by the task force, shall be based on data and indicators aligned to the New Hampshire consolidated state plan, as required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 20 U.S.C. section 6301 et seq. as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act. This plan shall be approved by the legislative oversight committee established in RSA 193-C:7.
IV. The task force shall submit a report of its findings with recommendations for future legislation for the performance-based accountability system to the legislative oversight committee established under RSA 193-C:7. After the report is approved by the legislative oversight committee the department shall submit the report to the chairpersons of the house and senate education committees, the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the governor, the house clerk, and the senate clerk.
V. The department shall annually prepare a detailed report documenting the results of each school on the performance-based school accountability system to be developed pursuant to this section, and identifying all schools that can demonstrate the opportunity for an adequate education through the performance-based methodology. The report shall be submitted no later than January 15 annually to the same individuals receiving the final report under paragraph IV.
Source. 2009, 198:1. 2016, 84:8, 9, eff. July 18, 2016. 2018, 352:2, eff. Aug. 31, 2018.
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