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Superintendent outlines new state accountability rules, warns of possible directed funding after multi-year misses
Summary
At the June 18 meeting Superintendent explained Senate Bill 141 requirements — seven statewide metrics plus one local metric — the district's selection of interim assessments, and the multi-year supports and consequences (directed coaching, intensive coaching, and potential prescription of up to 25% of state school funds) if growth targets are not met.
Superintendent opened the board’s presentation on the Education Accountability Act (Senate Bill 141), explaining that the law establishes seven statewide performance metrics the Oregon Department of Education will monitor and requires each district to select one local metric. The seven metrics named by the state are K–2 regular attendance, K–12 regular attendance, third-grade English language arts, eighth-grade math, ninth-grade on-track, four-year graduation, and five-year completion.
The superintendent said the district must set performance growth targets in partnership with the Oregon Department of Education and submit those targets by Aug. 31. The district chose STAR Renaissance interim assessments for ELA and math and selected the local metric "academic growth using interim assessments," with testing three times annually as the basis for measuring that growth.
The superintendent described ODE’s continuum of supports — technical assistance, professional development and customized coaching — and said the law triggers directed coaching after two consecutive years of not meeting targets, intensive coaching after further years, and could lead the department to prescribe uses of up to 25% of a district’s state school fund and SIA funds after multiple years of failure to meet growth expectations. Board members asked about how targets are set, cluster comparisons to similar districts and the worksheet ODE provides to check whether goals are reasonable. The superintendent noted several implementation details remain to be clarified by ODE and said the district will present its locally adopted targets in an August board meeting for public comment before submitting them to the department.
Board members raised concerns about whether required resources will be funded by the state and whether target-setting could force the district into costly interventions; the superintendent said she is participating in state work groups to clarify implementation and will return with more detail as ODE guidance becomes available.
Next steps: district administrators will develop and propose performance growth targets in August, present them to the board and submit them to ODE by the Aug. 31 deadline.
