2015: SR 287 – Opportunity School District
Session 2015-16Sponsored by Senator Butch Miller (R-Gainesville), Senate Resolution 287 would create Opportunity School Districts (OSD), a mechanism that allows the state to take over persistently failing schools through a new system of governance that would be controlled under the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement. Under the proposed model, OSD would only focus on the state’s poorest performing schools-those that are 60 or below on CCRPI for 3 consecutive years – and would operate by giving individual school leaders more flexibility to achieve better results in exchange for increased accountability. The state proposes to intervene in no more than 20 schools per year and in no more than 100 schools at any given time.
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Sponsored by Senator Butch Miller (R-Gainesville), Senate Resolution 287 would create Opportunity School Districts (OSD), a mechanism that allows the state to take over persistently failing schools through a new system of governance that would be controlled under the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement. Under the proposed model, OSD would only focus on the state’s poorest performing schools-those that are 60 or below on CCRPI for 3 consecutive years – and would operate by giving individual school leaders more flexibility to achieve better results in exchange for increased accountability. The state proposes to intervene in no more than 20 schools per year and in no more than 100 schools at any given time. |
Act 309 05/12/2015 |
