SCS/HS/HCS/HB 1076 This act requires that certain students receive summer school reading instruction. Local school districts are required to select a reading assessment mechanism and to assign third-grade and older students who are reading below grade level to be assessed for summer school placement. Third-grade students who read below the second grade level shall be required to complete at least thirty additional hours of reading instruction or practice outside the regular school day during the fourth grade and may also be required to attend summer school instruction.

Students who complete summer school instruction shall be reassessed and if necessary receive further summer school placement, through the sixth grade. Students between grades four and six who transfer to the school district are also required to be assessed if not reading at or above grade level. If a student is reading below the fifth-grade level at the end of sixth grade, a notation will be made in the student's record that he or she is reading below minimal levels.

Special needs students are exempt from this section.

School districts are permitted to coordinate their summer school reading instruction programs with other summer school programs and may fulfill the requirement of offering such summer reading instruction by arrangement with neighboring districts.

This act also moves the statewide assessment test in science from the third to the fourth grade and requires that no more than two statewide assessments be given in any one grade level.

This section is similar to SB 918.

The substitute includes provisions allowing a school district which operates on a twelve-month academic calendar, and which receives overpayments of state aid in error, up to five years to repay the excess funds, at six percent interest.

This section is identical to SB573.
DAVID TALLMAN

SA 1 - ALLOWS CERTAIN RETIRED TEACHERS TO RETURN TO WORK WITHOUT LOSING RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR UP TO TWO YEARS.

SA 2 - RAISES VALUATION SCALE REQUIRED FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS TO LEVY TAXES.

SA 6 - PROVIDES THAT SCORE OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS WILL NOT BE COUNTED FOR PURPOSES OF MAP ASSESSMENTS UNTIL SUCH STUDENTS HAVE HAD THREE YEARS OF EDUCATION IN THIS STATE.

SA 10 - ALLOWS SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO USE FUNDS RECEIVED FROM PENALTIES PAID BY CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS FOR ANY AUTHORIZED PURPOSE.

SA 12 - CREATES TEACHER CADET PROGRAM.

SA 13 - REVISES SCHOOL FINANCE FORMULA.

SA 14 - REQUIRES THAT COMPOSITE SCORES OF PUBLIC AND NON-PUBLIC ACT TESTING SHALL BE REPORTED SEPARATELY.