Reporting requirements.
Each eligible entity receiving funds under § 38-1853.04(a) during a year shall submit a report to the Secretary not later than July 30 of the following year regarding the activities carried out with the funds during the preceding year. In addition to the reports required under subsection (a), each eligible entity receiving funds under § 38-1853.04(a) shall, not later than September 1 of the year during which the second school year of the entity’s program is completed and each of the next 2 years thereafter, submit to the Secretary a report, including any pertinent data collected in the preceding 2 school years, concerning— the academic growth and achievement of students participating in the program; the high school graduation and college admission rates of students who participate in the program, where appropriate; and parental satisfaction with the program. No report under this subsection may contain any personally identifiable information. Each eligible entity receiving funds under § 38-1853.04(a) shall ensure that each school participating in the entity’s program under this chapter during a school year reports at least once during the year to the parents of each of the school’s students who are participating in the program on— the student’s academic achievement, as measured by a comparison with the aggregate academic achievement of other participating students at the student’s school in the same grade or level, as appropriate, and the aggregate academic achievement of the student’s peers at the student’s school in the same grade or level, as appropriate; the safety of the school, including the incidence of school violence, student suspensions, and student expulsions; and the accreditation status of the school. No report under this subsection may contain any personally identifiable information, except as to the student who is the subject of the report to that student’s parent. The eligible entity receiving funds under § 38-1853.04(a) shall ensure that each participating school under this division submits to the eligible entity beginning not later than 5 years after the date of the enactment of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program School Certification Requirements Act [Dec. 15, 2105], a certification that the school has been awarded provisional or full accreditation, or has been granted an extension by the eligible entity in accordance with § 38-1853.07(a)(4)(G). Not later than 6 months after the first appropriation of funds under § 38-1853.14, and each succeeding year thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations, Education and the Workforce, and Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, an annual report on the findings of the reports submitted under subsections (a) and (b).
Annotations
Apr. 15, 2011, 125 Stat. 208, Pub. L. 112-10, Div. C, § 3010 Dec. 15, 2015, 129 Stat. 2242, Pub. L. 114-113, § 817(c) Section 817(d) of P.L. 114-113 provided that unless specifically provided otherwise, § 817, and the amendments made by § 817, shall take effect 1 year after Dec. 15, 2015. Section 817(a) of P.L. 114-113 provided that § 817 of the act may be cited as the “D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program School Certification Requirements Act.” The 2015 amendment by Pub. L. 114-113 added (d); and redesignated former (d) as (e).
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