HB 865 -- SCHOOL BUILDING REPORT CARDS

SPONSOR:  Davis

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass by consent" by the Committee
on Education-Elementary and Secondary by a vote of 24 to zero.

Current law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a
policy for public reporting of information by school districts.
This bill requires an annual report for each building in a
district to be made available in several ways, including but not
limited to, providing the report when a student enrolls or
receives grades, in newspapers, or on the Internet.  The bill
deletes the requirement for the development of multiple
reporting models and substitutes a standard form, which
districts may use, and deletes the information required on
extracurricular activities and their costs, as well as deleting
the requirement for reporting the number of hours of attendance,
while retaining the requirement for days of attendance.  Instead
of reporting financial information on a building level only when
a district has 2 or more buildings that hold the same grades,
the bill requires reporting financial information on the
district as a whole and by attendance center.

FISCAL NOTE:  Estimated Net Cost to School Districts is Unknown
in FY 2002, FY 2003, and FY 2004.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that current law focuses on district
level accountability; the bill standardizes reporting on a
building level and removes some cumbersome reporting
requirements.

Testifying for the bill were Representative Davis; Governor's
Office; Missouri State Teachers Association; School
Administrators Coalition; Missouri School Board Association;
Missouri Federation of Teachers; and Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Becky DeNeve, Senior Legislative Analyst

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:46 am