School Performance Report Card

(a)No later than thirty

(30)days following at the end of each fiscal year, the Superintendent shall issue a School Performance Report Card on the state of the public schools and progress toward achieving their goals and mission.

(b)The purpose of the School Performance Report Card is to monitor trends among schools and progress toward achieving the goals stated in the mission statement. The report on the state of the public schools shall be designed to:

(1)allow educators and the community to determine and share successful and unsuccessful school programs;

(2)allow educators to sustain support for reforms demonstrated to be successful;

(3)recognize schools for their progress and achievements; and

(4)facilitate the use of educational resources and innovations in the most effective manner.

(5)The report shall contain, but need not be limited to:

(A)demographic information on public school children in the community; CH. 3 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

(B)information pertaining to student achievement, including Guam-wide assessment data, graduation rates and dropout rates, including progress toward achieving the education benchmarks established by the Board;

(C)information pertaining to special program offerings;

(D)information pertaining to the characteristics of the school and school staff, including certification and assignment of teachers and the experience of the staff;

(E)budget information, including source and disposition of school operating funds and salary data;

(F)examples of exemplary programs, proven practices, programs designed to reduce costs or other innovations in education being developed by the schools that show improved student learning; and

(G)such other information as the Superintendent and the Board deems necessary.

(c)In the second and subsequent years that the report is issued, the report shall include a comparison between the current and previous data, and an analysis of trends in public education.