Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-6-3703

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The department shall create and develop a school turnaround program for priority schools pursuant to § 49-6-3704.

(b) The department shall select up to five (5) priority schools each year that are diverse in grade levels to participate in the program; provided, that no more than fifteen (15) priority schools may participate in the program at any given time. The department shall select at least one (1) priority school each year from each grand division of this state to ensure that the priority schools selected to participate in the program are geographically diverse.

(c) The department shall operate and administer the program. Each school in need of intervention selected to participate in the program must develop a school turnaround plan in the first school year of its participation in the program.

(d)(1) Each school in need of intervention shall implement its school turnaround plan in each of the three (3) school years immediately following the school year in which the school in need of intervention developed its school turnaround plan pursuant to subsection (c). The department shall not require a school in need of intervention that exits the program pursuant to § 49-6-3705(b)(2) to continue implementing its school turnaround plan.

(2) The department shall evaluate the progress of each school in need of intervention to determine whether the school meets the priority school exit criteria established by the state's federally approved Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan approved pursuant to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (20 U.S.C. § 6301 et seq.) at the end of each school year for which the school in need of intervention is participating in the program.

(e) By October 1 each year, the department shall file with the education committee of the senate and committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over elementary and secondary education a report evaluating the effectiveness of the program for the immediately preceding school year. The report must address the implementation and effectiveness of comprehensive support and improvement plans implemented by non-participating schools and school turnaround plans implemented by schools in need of intervention in addressing the prioritized needs of the respective school that resulted in the school's designation as a priority school. The report filed by the department following the last school year of a four-school-year-cycle must:

(1) Compare the student performance outcomes for each school in need of intervention exiting the program after participating in the program for no more than four (4) consecutive school years with those of non-participating schools;

(2) Compare the outcomes for each school in need of intervention exiting the program after participating in the program for no more than four (4) consecutive school years, identifying:

(A) How the school turnaround plan developed by the school in need of intervention that met the priority school exit criteria during the program differs from a school in need of intervention that did not meet the priority school exit criteria during the program; and

(B) How a school in need of intervention that did not meet the priority school exit criteria during the school's participation in the program improved, if at all, during its participation in the program; and

(3) Recommend whether a school turnaround plan developed by one (1) or more schools in need of intervention that met the priority school exit criteria during its participation in the program should be replicated in non-participating schools to improve the performance of priority schools in this state.

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