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Bill Text

HOUSE BILL No. 2482
AN ACT concerning education; relating to the state board of education; removing the
requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver
state-funded college entrance and career readiness exams; requiring the board to
provide for such exams using any provider; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 72-5178
and 72-5179 and repealing the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 72-5178 is hereby amended to read
as follows: 72-5178. (a) On or before January 15 of each year, the state
department of education shall prepare and digitally update on the
website of the state department of education the performance
accountability reports and longitudinal achievement reports upon all
students enrolled in any public school or accredited nonpublic school in
the state, each school district, each school operated by a school district
and each accredited nonpublic school.
(b) Each performance accountability report shall be prepared in a
single-page format containing the information that is required to be
reported under the federal elementary and secondary education act, as
amended by the federal every student succeeds act, public law 114-95,
or any successor federal acts, and the college and career readiness
metrics developed and implemented by the state board. The report shall
use the categories for achievement identified under the federal every
student succeeds act, public law 114-95, or any successor achievement
categories. All categories and metrics included in the report shall be
clearly defined.
(c) Each longitudinal achievement report shall provide the
achievement rates on the state assessments for English language arts,
math and science for all students and each student subgroup and the
change in achievement rate year-over-year starting with the school year
in which the state board first implemented new achievement standards
on such state assessments.
(d) On or before January 15 of each year, the state department of
education shall prepare written academic achievement reports to
provide a summary of student achievement in this state and shall
submit such reports to the governor and the legislature. Such written
academic achievement reports shall:
(1) Provide a statewide summary of the performance
accountability reports and longitudinal achievement reports prepared
pursuant to this section. Such summary report shall provide:
(A) Achievement data from the English language arts assessments
and math assessments over the preceding five years for all students and
student subgroups to show whether there are statewide trends in
academic improvement or learning loss among all students and student
subgroups;
(B) a comparison to any other evaluation metric used by the state
board of education to evaluate student achievement such as college and
career readiness measurements or graduation rates;
(C) a comparison to other educational assessments that measure
academic performance such as the national assessment of educational
progress;
(D) an analysis of the trends in student achievement outcomes and
a review of conditions that are impacting recent student achievement
outcomes;
(E) a review of the academic interventions that school districts are
using to improve student performance, whether the state board of
education has any specific recommendations regarding academic
interventions to improve academic achievement and an estimation of
the academic achievement gains that can be expected from such
interventions; and
(F) a summary of the performance levels and the scale and cut
scores for the statewide assessments and how such information should
be used to draw conclusions about student achievement; and
(2) provide a student-focused longitudinal achievement report that
provides information on the academic achievement of certain student
cohort groups to show the achievement gains or learning losses that are

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occurring for such students. Such report shall begin with the students
who are entering grade three and grade eight in school year 2022-2023.
The report shall summarize the longitudinal achievement of such
students over a three-year period and shall be repeated every three
years for the students entering such grade levels. The longitudinal
report shall provide:
(A) A summary of the improvement or learning loss that is
occurring within such student cohort groups over such three-year
period for all such students and the student subgroups;
(B) an analysis of the evaluations and metrics that are used to
measure the year-over-year achievement of such student cohort groups;
(C) a review of the academic interventions that school districts are
using to improve student performance within such student cohort
groups, whether the state board of education has any specific
recommendations regarding academic interventions to improve
academic achievement and an estimate of the academic achievement
gains that can be e