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This bill updates Oklahoma's law regarding the calculation of high school graduation rates by extending provisions to include charter schools and clarifying the methods for tracking student cohorts. The bill modifies the existing statute to explicitly include charter schools in the State Board of Education's process for calculating four-year and extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rates, which measure the percentage of students who graduate high school within four or five years. The legislation provides more detailed guidelines for removing students from graduation rate calculations, including specific forms of written or electronic confirmation that a student has transferred, such as documentation of enrollment in another school, official transfer records, requests for student records, or written confirmation from a parent about alternative education arrangements. The bill updates references to federal education legislation, changing from the No Child Left Behind Act to the Every Student Succeeds Act, and modernizes the language around tracking student movements between schools. The bill is set to become effective on July 1, 2025, and contains an emergency clause indicating its immediate importance for public education management. The changes aim to create a more uniform and accurate method of calculating graduation rates across different types of schools in Oklahoma.

Education

http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb695&Session=2600