OSSBA CCOSA USSA Legislative Briefing February 10, 2015 9:00 a.m. CCOSA Conference Room 1. Charters/ESA/ Vouchers a. SB 69 by Sen. David Holt, R- OKC i. Passed Senate Education 2/9/15; allows city councils to authorize charter schools; can put charter in any school district within their city boundaries that has an ADM of more than 5,000 b. SB 171 by Sen. Kyle Loveless, R-OKC i. Failed in Senate Education 2/9/15; would have allowed statewide expansion of charter schools; a lot of rural Republicans questioned the need for charter schools in those areas and requested that they demonstrate the need via metrics 1. (Currently under federal law, a charter can be put in place in any school that is designated as needs improvement) c. SB 302 by Sen. Kyle Loveless, R-OKC i. Would allow any Tribe in Oklahoma to authorize a charter school so long as it is within federally recognized reservation or treaty area d. HB 1034 by Rep. Dan Kirby, R-Tulsa i. Passed House Common Education 2/9/15; same bill as SB 302 e. SB 136 by Sen. Gary Stanislawski, R-Jenks i. Statewide Virtual Charter School Board; if this bill passes, this Board would be responsible for approving your locally created supplemental online education f. HB 1696 by Rep. Lee Denney, R-Cushing i. Statewide charter and accountability; allow existing charter authorizers to sponsor anywhere in the state; bill will allow for accountability to take place through the authorizers; hold charters accountability to accept any student in their district; some concerns,- by 2016-17 school year, the SBE would be required to rank schools according to their A-F grades numerically, and rank charter schools only if they are in the bottom 5% of rankings; special rules for rankings included for charters in certain circumstances (i.e. Charter gets to take higher of two grades if grading metric changes, but public schools do not have this option) g. HB 2003 by Rep. Jason Nelson, R-OKC i. Creates an Education Savings Account (ESA) which is an incentive program for parents to pull their children out of public schools; the money that would be given to the public school for that student through the funding formula would be placed into an ESA that parents use for private tuition and consumable education products; income eligibility criteria to qualify for ESA; administered by OKSDE h. SB 609 by Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond i. ESA bill; can’t be enrolled in any public school in order to qualify; no income cap eligibility criteria; administered by State Treasurer’s Office; 80% of money generated would follow the child; the remaining 20% would stay with sending school district to provide a teacher pay raise 2. Curriculum a. SB 50 by Sen. Jason Smalley, R-Stroud i. Amends statute on agriculture education to include 6-12th grades b. SB 262 by Sen. Susan Paddack, D-Ada i. Require that information be made available to OKSDE on workplace safety training that in turn, shall be made available to schools if schools chose to provide that information to their students c. SB 285 by Sen. Susan Paddack, D-Ada i. Would require early childhood education standards to be aligned to the new state standards (when those are developed)
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