A. The performance provisions in the charter contract shall be based on a framework that clearly sets forth the academic and operations performance indicators and performance targets that will guide the chartering authority's evaluation of each charter school. The performance framework shall be a material term of the charter school contract and shall include performance indicators and performance targets for, at a minimum:
(1) student academic performance;
(2) student academic growth;
(3) achievement gaps in both proficiency and growth between student subgroups;
(4) attendance;
(5) recurrent enrollment from year to year;
(6) if the charter school is a high school, post-secondary readiness;
(7) if the charter school is a high school, graduation rate;
(8) financial performance and sustainability; and
(9) governing body performance, including compliance with all applicable laws, rules and terms of the charter contract.
B. Annual performance targets shall be set by each chartering authority in consultation with its charter schools and shall be designed to help each charter school meet applicable federal, state and chartering authority expectations as set forth in the charter contracts to which the authority is a party.
C. The performance framework shall allow for the inclusion of additional rigorous, valid and reliable indicators proposed by a charter school to augment external evaluations of its performance, provided that the chartering authority shall approve the quality and rigor of such proposed indicators and the indicators are consistent with the purposes of the Charter Schools Act.
D. The performance framework shall require the disaggregation of all student performance data collected in compliance with this section by student subgroup, including gender, race, poverty status, special education or gifted status and English language learner.
E. The chartering authority shall collect, analyze and report all data from state assessment tests in accordance with the performance framework set forth in the charter contract for each charter school overseen by that chartering authority.
History: Laws 2011, ch. 14, § 4; 2015, ch. 108, § 11.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, amended the performance framework that must be included in each charter school contract; in the introductory paragraph of Subsection A, after "performance indicators", deleted "measures", after the second occurrence of "and", deleted "metrics" and added "performance targets", after "performance framework shall", added "be a material term of the charter school contract and shall", after "include", added "performance", after "indicators", deleted "measures", and after the fourth occurrence of "and", deleted "metrics" and added "performance targets".