Bill Number: HB 4626
Subject: Innovative Districts
Sponsor: Brad Paquette
MASA Position: Oppose

Description: Creates public innovative districts. The bill would allow superintendents to apply to the state for permission to operate as a public innovative district or for a school in the district to operate as a public innovative school. Additionally, the bill would create the Education Accountability Policy Commission, charged with selecting a statewide auditor to perform audits of all qualifying districts. The 13-member Education Accountability Policy Commission would prescribe membership requirements, and provide for commission duties and powers. Membership would include the state superintendent or his or her designee, one member appointed by the Senate Majority Leader, one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, three members appointed by the superintendent (one representing PSAs, one representing school administrators, and one currently serving school board member), and seven members appointed by the governor (three representing organizations focused on college- and career-readiness, one representing urban school districts, one representing rural school districts, one representing parents and students, and one representing teachers.

Position Notes: 6/19/19
Position Date:
Bill Status: Introduced (5/22/2019; Referred to Committee on Education)
PA Number: NA
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