(a) The Superintendent shall collect data and produce annual school performance reports containing information on student performance, student behavior and school characteristics.

(b) (1) In consultation with representatives of parents, teachers and school administrators, the Board shall adopt, by rule, criteria for grading schools. Such criteria shall take into account both overall performance and improvement in performance. A five (5) member evaluation team shall be appointed by the Board to assess every school. The Board shall appoint one (1) member from each of the four (4) school board election districts, and the fifth member shall be appointed from the Island-wide Parent Teacher Organization. The grades shall include classifications for exceptional performance, strong performance, satisfactory performance, low performance and unacceptable performance.

(2) The grades received by a school shall be included in the
Annual State of Public Education Report.

(3) If a school is within the low performance or unacceptable performance classification in any category, the school shall file a school improvement plan with the Superintendent and with the Board.

(c) The Superintendent shall notify the public and the media, and post on the Department of Education’s website, no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the fiscal year. The school performance reports shall be available at schools and the DOE’ offices. The

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Superintendent shall also include notice that copies of school improvement plans can be obtained from the schools and the DOE.

§ 3106 . 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;

(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

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education being developed by the schools that show improved student learning; and

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

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.

2013 NOTE: Numbers and/or letters were altered to adhere to the Compiler’s alpha-numeric scheme in accordance to 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.

§ 3107. Establishment of Educational Goals and Performance
Standards.

The Board shall develop and periodically assess educational goals and performance standards.