0140: Legally Required Goals

Legally Required Goals

The superintendent will ensure that the Bellevue School District is in compliance with all legally required goals as follows.

Basic Education Goals

The district will have a goal to provide every student with the knowledge and skills necessary to:

1. Read with comprehension, write effectively, and communicate successfully in a variety of ways and settings and with a variety of audiences;
2. Know and apply the core concepts and principles of mathematics; social, physical, and life sciences; civics and history, including different cultures and participation in representative government; geography; arts; and health and fitness;
3. Think analytically, logically, and creatively, and to integrate technology literacy and fluency as well as different experiences and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and solve problems; and
4. Understand the importance of work and finance and how performance, effort, and decisions directly affect future career and educational opportunities.

An assessment system for determining whether students have successfully learned the core academic learning standards based on the student learning goals will be adopted by the district, as required by state law.

Reading and Mathematics Goals

The board will adopt district-wide performance improvement goals for reading and mathematics and direct each school in the district that administers the statewide assessment to adopt performance improvement goals to increase the percentage of students meeting the standard in reading and mathematics.

The following goals and calculation methodologies will be established to measure and improve student achievement in reading and mathematics within the grade level bands as measured by the statewide assessment will be administered as required by state and federal law.

1. The baseline of achievement for the district and schools within the grade level bands on the reading and mathematics assessments for each grade are the starting points established using the federal requirements.
2. The goal for the district and for each school is to increase the percentage of students in the following categories that meet or exceed the reading and mathematics improvement goals on the state uniform bar, as established using the federal requirements:
   1. All students;
   2. Students of each major racial and ethnic group;
   3. Economically disadvantaged students;
   4. Students served in Special Education; and
   5. Students served in the state’s Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program.
3. The district and all schools will demonstrate satisfactory progress toward the performance improvement goals by meeting the federal requirements or by showing improvements using the alternative “Safe Harbor” calculation.

High School Graduation Goal

The Board will annually adopt district-wide graduation goals and direct each high school to annually establish goals, subject to board approval, to increase the percentage of on-time graduates receiving a high school diploma.

The minimum graduation rate goals through 2013 will be as defined in WAC 180-105-060. Graduation rate goals in 2014 and each year thereafter for each group of students, identified in federal requirements, will not be less than 85 percent.

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Cross References

• Board Policy 0100 Mission
• Board Policy 0110 Vision
• Board Policy 0120 Guiding Principles
• Board Policy 0150 Planning Process
• Board Policy 0310 Reporting
• Board Policy 0400 Program Evaluation and Compliance

Legal References

• RCW 28A.150.210 Basic education— Goals of school districts
• RCW 28A.655.010 Washington commission on Student Learning — Definitions
• WAC 180-105-020 Reading and Mathematics
• WAC 180-105-060 High School Graduation