1. SPRING 2012 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

2. HB 1593 HB 1593 FY 2013 Education Appropriation Bill Funds MAEP at $2,055,334,205 – $19.4M above FY 2012 MAEP appropriation. – Increase is for PERS employer rate increase effective July 1, 2012. – Total cost of PERS increase is $23.7M. – $4.3M of the $23.7M is funded by reducing high growth district allocations by $4.3M. – Lump sum allocation (same as FY 2012) so no mid year adjustments to add-ons or additional funding for new hires (spec. ed., voc. ed., gifted teachers). 2

3. HB 1593 HB 1593 FY 2013 Education Appropriation Bill Education Enhancement Funds – $8M Classroom Supply Funds – $16M Buildings and Busses – $0.00 Ad Valorem Reduction Allocations for Classroom Supply and Buildings and Busses is estimated until Mo. 1-9 ADA is complete. No allocation for Ad Valorem Tax Reduction allocation. Chickasaw fully funded - $19,803,310 National Board Certification (Master Teacher) Supplement is fully funded. Effective Date: July 1, 2012 – Signed by the Governor on May 10. 3

4. SB 2761 School District Procurement Efficiency Commission; continue under State Department of Education and authorize procurement cardsSB 2761 School District Procurement Efficiency Commission; continue under State Department of Education and authorize procurement cards Establishes a Commission on School District Efficiency within the State Department of Education and require annual reports to the Governor and the legislature relative to business efficiency standards for accreditation Authorizes the Department of Finance and Administration to adopt purchasing regulations regarding the use of procurement cards by school districts and teacher supply funds and to issue procurement cards to teachers on an annual basis for the purchase of said instructional materials. 4

5. SB 2761 - Continued School District Procurement Efficiency Commission; continue under State Department of Education and authorize procurement cards Requires local school districts to process a single monthly payroll with electronic settlement of payroll checks secured through direct deposit of net pay for all school district employees. Limits donated leave to within the school district. – Donated leave no longer allowed from other school districts Before an employee may receive donated sick leave the local superintendent must appoint a review committee to approve or disapprove – this includes that the illness is catastrophic as defined in legislation 5

6. SB 2761 – Continued Provides local school boards the authority to issue and provide procurement cards to school board members, superintendents and licensed school personnel consistent with the rules and regulations of DFA under section 31-7-9 For 10 days after a teacher has exhausted all sick leave, the school district must pay them for an additional 10 days, which can be full pay or full pay less a substitute teacher pay Requires an annual comprehensive evaluation of local superintendents using the assessment benchmarks established by the Mississippi School Boards Association Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 6

7. HB 540 School property and facilities; authorize shared use agreements for public recreation and sports Authorize local school boards to allow school property to be used by the public during nonschool hours for recreation and sports Limits the liability of school districts and school district employees for claims arising from the public’s use of school property and facilities for recreation and sports Encourages school districts to enter into shared use agreements with community organizations and local governmental entities for purposes of recreation and sports 7

8. HB 540 - Continued School property and facilities; authorize shared use agreements for public recreation and sports Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Education to develop a best practices tool kit relating to shared use agreements Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012 8

9. HB 540 - Continued School property and facilities; authorize shared use agreements for public recreation and sports Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Education to develop a best practices tool kit relating to shared use agreements Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012 9

10. HB 696 Prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in student grades Prohibits school administrators and certain other faculty, staff and employees of a local school district from influencing the grade received by a student from a teacher Prescribes the circumstances under which a teacher may change a student’s grade Provides that violations shall subject local school districts or schools to a loss of accreditation Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 10

11. HB 707 School Start Date Act of 2012; enact to restrict the start of a new academic year Creates the School Start Date Act Provides that all public elementary or secondary school under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Education shall begin the new academic school year of instruction on or after the third Monday in August Begins with the 2014-2015 school year Exempts the Mississippi Schools for the Blind and Deaf from the application of this requirement Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 11

12. HB 909 School maintenance fund; extend repealer that districts with low ending balance file budget cut plan Extends the repealer from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2015 on the provisions requiring school districts with a low ending balance of school maintenance funds to submit plans of cost reductions to the State Department of Education Whenever a school district has an ending fund balance in the maintenance fund of the school district which is an amount equal to less than seven percent (7%) of the total revenue deposited into the district maintenance fund during that fiscal year,….. 12

13. HB 909 - Continued School maintenance fund; extend repealer that districts with low ending balance file budget cut plan …the school board of the school district shall prepare and file with the State Department of Education a plan under which the district intends to reduce costs in the district. The plan must be submitted by the school board to the department contemporaneously with the budgetary information required under 17 Section 37-61-9(2). Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in forced from and after July 1, 2012. 13

14. SB 2424 Education Employment Procedures Law Clarifies the deadline for notification of non-reemployment of teachers and administrators under the education employment procedures law as ten (10) calendar days. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 14

15. SB 2452 Employment of substitute teachers; clarify deduction of cost of substitutes from pay of absent licensee For 10 days after a teacher has exhausted all sick leave, the school district must pay them for an additional 10 days, which can be full pay or full pay less a substitute teacher pay Local school districts must establish a board policy Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 15

16. HB 447 Require school board to conduct annual comprehensive evaluation of school superintendents Requires an annual comprehensive evaluation of local superintendents using the assessment benchmarks established by the Mississippi School Boards Association Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 16

17. HB 784 Academic credits; allow school district to award to certain students who complete basic training camp with the National Guard Authorize school boards to allow course credit to certain high school students, who are also members of the National Guard, and who completes basic training camp at the end of their junior years and before the start of their senior year Authorize the school district to award to the student one Carnegie completion of basic training Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 17

18. HB 948 Repeal section that establishes certain standard required of agricultural high schools Repeals section 37-27-19, Mississippi Code of 1972, which establishes certain standards required of Agricultural High Schools. – 37-27-19 The main purpose for an agricultural high school being to teach theoretical and practical agriculture and home economics, and to be a real service to the farmers of the county, any school failing to come up to the following standards shall be dropped from the list of approved agricultural high schools by the state board of education: (a) Each school shall own and operate a dairy sufficiently large to furnish milk and butter necessary for use in the dormitories. 18

19. HB 948 - Continued Agricultural high schools; repeal section that establishes certain standard required of (b) Each school shall own and operate an approved poultry farm with one or more breeds of chickens, the minimum of which shall be one hundred hens. (c) There shall be in every school a model orchard with a minimum of one acre demonstrating correct methods of planting, cultivating, pruning and propagation of orchard plants. (d) There shall be in every school a model garden sufficiently large to furnish vegetables to the boarders. The minimum acreage for vegetables and truck crops shall be one acre for each twenty boarders. (e) A sufficient number of pure-bred hogs shall be kept for teaching and demonstrating purposes. 19

20. HB 948 - Continued Agricultural high schools; repeal section that establishes certain standard required of (f) Plots of land shall be cultivated on the school farm demonstrating the yield per acre and the best method of cultivation of such crops as cotton, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, etc., suitable to the different sections of the state. (g) Students shall be required to take part in the work thus outlined for the specific purposes of encouraging farm life in Mississippi and acquiring a practical knowledge of the same. (h) Schools shall do such extension work and shall maintain such agricultural and home science laboratory equipment as may be prescribed by the state board of education. (i) The sciences and other subjects taught in the agricultural high school shall be connected vitally with the social and economic life of the school and county. 20

21. HB 948 - Continued Agricultural high schools; repeal section that establishes certain standard required of (j) Each school is required to have a minimum of one-eighth of an acre of ground set apart as a vegetable garden for use of the home economics department of the school. (k) Each school is required to own and operate an incubator for the teaching of poultrying in the home economics department of the school. (l) Each school must provide means for the laundering of plain clothes for the boarding students. (m) Each school is required to own a modern canning outfit for the use of the school, and for demonstration work in the communities of the county. 21

22. HB 948 - Continued Agricultural high schools; repeal section that establishes certain standard required of (n) Each girl boarding in the dormitory of these schools must do five hours per week of practical work. (o) All girls who graduate from an agricultural high school must demonstrate their ability to make their own clothes, prepare and serve meals, and do other things necessary to ordinary household management. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 22

23. HB 960 Blind Persons’ Literacy Rights and Education Act, revise Provides that blind and visually impaired students should receive educational services from certified teachers of the visually impaired Requires each appropriate educational entity to provide for instruction in Braille and the use of Braille unless the IEP committee determines, after an evaluation of the child’s needs, if the instruction of Braille or use of Braille is not appropriate for the child Require assessments for students to include a minimum research-based learning media assessment 23

24. HB 960 - Continued Blind Persons’ Literacy Rights and Education Act, revise Prohibits the denial of instruction in Braille to students with some residual vision Establishes the standard procedure to be used by the IEP or 504 team that Braille instruction or the use of Braille is required for blind students Requires textbook publishers that sell books to Mississippi school districts to furnish American Standard Code for information interchange (ASCII) or other electronically formatted files compatible with Braille conversion for all books and supplementary materials for literary and nonliterary subjects 24

25. HB 960 - Continued Blind Persons’ Literacy Rights and Education Act, revise Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate and publish regulations, policies and procedures for the administrative operation of the Mississippi Instructional Resource Center. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 25

26. HB 1031 Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice Establishes the Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for students with Dyslexia Program Provides for student eligibility requirements for receipt of a scholarship and restricting eligibility Provides for the term of the scholarship and stipulates the obligations of parents or legal guardians Prescribes the duties of the Department of Education and the State Board of Education regarding the administration of the scholarship program 26

27. HB 1031 - Continued Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice Requires that all compulsory school age children be screened for dyslexia during the period between the Spring of kindergarten and the Fall of Grade 1 and other appropriate times as deemed necessary in the public schools of this state. Establish the procedures to be followed in screening and evaluation of students for dyslexia and related disorders and prescribing who shall administer the screening and evaluation. 27

28. HB 1031 - Continued Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice Requires school diagnosticians receive additional training in the evaluation and diagnosis of dyslexia. Requires the state to pay directly to the school any federal or state aid attributable to a student with a disability attending the school. Requires the school to comply with the annual audit and budget submission requirements. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 28

29. HB 1032 Creates The Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program Establishes the Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program for the purpose of recruiting and training qualified persons to practice dyslexia therapy in this state Limits the receipt of scholarships under the program to students enrolled in or who have been accepted for enrollment into a mater’s degree program of study for dyslexia therapy Provides that the annual amount of the scholarship award shall be equal to the total cost for tuition and establishes the terms of service for those persons who receive a scholarship under the program 29

30. HB 1032 - Continued Stipulates the process for repayment of any award amounts for failing to complete the program of study or the required number of years of services as required by receipt of a scholarship Establishes the Certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired Scholarship Program to be administered by the Mississippi Instructional Resource Center Provides that funding for the scholarship shall be subject to appropriation and shall be administered by the Mississippi Department of Education Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 30

31. HB 1082 Speech-Language Pathologist Master’s Degree Loan Forgiveness Program Establishes a Speech-Language Pathologist Master’s Degree Loan Scholarship Program for persons working in Mississippi Public Schools. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 31

32. HB 1144 Office of Educator Misconduct Evaluation; establish to provide administrative due process for licensure violations Establishes an office within the State Department of Education to respond to and conduct hearings regarding educator and administrator licensure and ethics violations. Provides that approval of educator preparation programs is subject to a process and schedule determined by the State Board of Education Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 32

33. HB 1405 IEP meetings; authorize parents to record or to opt to have school districts provide written record or recording Authorize a parent of an exceptional child to record Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings with audio or visual recording. Requires that such parental right to record be included in the procedural safeguards. Permits school boards, boards of supervisors and municipal governing authorities to authorize the use of dogs with the ability to detect diabetes in schools and public places. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 33

34. SB 2176 Educations Employment Procedures Law; delete right of terminated or renewal school superintendents to request a hearing. Specifies that any school superintendent whose employment has been terminated by the local school board under section 37-9-59, or whose employment contract has not been renewed by the local school board shall not have the right to request a hearing before the local school board or a hearing officer. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 34

35. SB 2330 School district consolidation; require in certain counties Would provide that any Mississippi County having three school districts, all of which are under conservatorship by the MS Department of Education, there shall be an administrative consolidation into one countywide school district. Provide for a new county board of education to be elected in such county in a November 2013 special election; Provides that the new county board of education shall serve as the lead agency to consolidate the school districts in such county and to direct the State Board of Education to administratively consolidate any school district which does not voluntarily follow the consolidation order. 35

36. SB 2330 Continued School district consolidation; require in certain counties Would abolish the former boards following the administrative consolidation and provide for the transfer of school districts assets and liabilities. The bill provides for the appointment of a new county superintendent of education in said county. The bill directs the State Board of Education to promulgate regulations to implement such administrative consolidation. (Sunflower County School District) Effective Date: Shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended. 36

37. SB 2332 Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Would provide additional special funds to the Institutions of Higher Learner for support and maintenance of the critical needs teacher scholarship program. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 37

38. SB 2450 High school AP courses Deletes the requirement that the State Department of Education must approve all high school pre-advanced placement courses. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 38

39. SB 2453 Repeals section 37-13-10SB 2453 Repeals section 37-13-10 Repeals section 37-13-10, which provides components of a reading sufficiency program of instruction to be implemented by the State Board of Education. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 39

40. SB 2454 Office of Dropout Prevention in the State Department of Education, clarify responsibilitySB 2454 Office of Dropout Prevention in the State Department of Education, clarify responsibility Provides that each school district is responsible for student dropout prevention programs and that the Office of Dropout Prevention in the state department of education shall provide technical assistance to the local school districts upon request. The bill separates the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement and the Office of Dropout Prevention. 40

41. SB 2454 - Continued Office of Dropout Prevention in the State Department of Education, clarify responsibility Identifies criteria that must be included in a districts dropout prevention plan. Specifies that a local school district’s dropout prevention plan must address how students will transition back into their home school district from a juvenile detention center. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 41

42. SB 2737 Low-performing schools and districts; authorize State Board of Education to consolidate in emergency situations Low-performing schools and districts; authorize State Board of Education to consolidate in emergency situations-School districts; require appointment of superintendent by governing authority in those abolished by Governor. Provides that if a local school district violates accreditation standards determined to be the basis for immediate withdrawal of accreditation, there shall be a show cause hearing conducted by the Commission on School Accreditation. 42

43. SB 2737 - Continued Low-performing schools and districts; authorize State Board of Education to consolidate in emergency situations Authorizes the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in a school district whose accreditation has been withdrawn to petition for a transfer into an accredited school district and to provide for the transfer of state adequate program funds to the transferee school district. Authorizes the State Board of Education to abolish a school district and administratively consolidate with one or more existing school districts in emergency situations with the approval of the transferee school district. 43

44. SB 2737 - Continued Low-performing schools and districts; authorize State Board of Education to consolidate in emergency situations Provides for loans to school districts under conservatorship from the School District Emergency Assistance Fund and to provide that fund is a special fund which shall not lapse into the state general fund. Authorizes and directs the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to change the performance level terminology for schools and school districts to “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” and “F” based on established benchmarks of student achievement and growth. Provides that such new terminology for accreditation rating purposes shall be effective upon full implementation of Common Core State Standards and Assessments. 44

45. SB 2737 - Continued Low-performing schools and districts; authorize State Board of Education to consolidate in emergency situations Amend codes to provide that a board member or superintendent in office at the time the Governor declares a state of emergency in a school district shall not be eligible to serve in that office in such school district and to provide that the new superintendent in such school district shall be appointed. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended. 45

46. SB 2752 Coordinated School Health Pilot ProgramSB 2752 Coordinated School Health Pilot Program Coordinated School Health Pilot Program based on federal model; authorize Mississippi Department of Education and State Department of Health to establish Authorizes the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health to establish a targeted coordinated school health pilot program based upon the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards. Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 46

47. SB 2760 School district consolidationSB 2760 School district consolidation Require in certain counties and study administrative consolidation of agricultural high schools Provides for the administrative consolidation of the school districts located within Bolivar County into two school districts to be designated as North Bolivar Consolidated School District and West Bolivar Consolidated School District Authorize and directs the State Board of Education to develop and promulgate a consolidation order for the school districts in said county under certain standards 47

48. SB 2760 - Continued School district consolidation Provides for two new Boards of Trustees to be elected in such consolidated school district in a November 2013 special election and directs the State Board of Education to administratively consolidate any school district which does not voluntarily follow the consolidation order Abolishes the former school boards following the administrative consolidation and provide for the transfer of school district assets and liabilities 48

49. SB 2760 - Continued School district consolidation Directs the State Board of Education to develop a report with recommendations on the administrative consolidation of the state’s Agricultural High Schools Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended. 49

50. SB 2776 Directs State Board of Education and Mississippi Department of Education to change the performance level terminology for schools and school districts to “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” and “F” Amends codes to authorize and direct the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to change the accreditation rating terminology for schools and school districts to “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” and “F” based on established benchmarks of student achievement and growth. Provide that such new terminology shall be effective upon full implementation of Common Core State Standards and Assessments. 50

51. SB 2776 - Continued Directs State Board of Education and Mississippi Department of Education to change the performance level terminology for schools and school districts to “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” and “F” Requires the State Board of Education to apply a letter grade equivalence to the current school and school district performance classification labels beginning with the 2011- 2012 assessment results Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 51

52. SB 2792 Dual enrollment-dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community colleges; establish pilot program Authorizes students to dually enroll in their home high school and a local community college in a dual credit program consisting of high school completion courses and a work skills certificate program Establishes this dual credit option on a pilot program basis to be implemented statewide in the 2013-2014 school year 52

53. SB 2792 - Continued Dual enrollment-dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community colleges; establish pilot program Prescribes the components of the dual credit option program and provides state funding under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for the dual credit program Requires the county tax assessors to annually submit to the State Department of Education certain information relating to the assessed value of property which is used by the Department in determining the amount each school district must contribute toward the cost of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program 53

54. SB 2792 - Continued Dual enrollment-dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community colleges; establish pilot program Requires the State Department of Education to make a form available to the tax assessors for the submission of the reports Clarifies dual enrollment language for high school students Effective Date: This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012. 54

55. 55 Questions?