Bills › 89th General Assembly
Directing the department of education to convene an achievement gap working group
Sponsored by the Senate Education Committee
Topics:K–12 education
Same legislation: SF 2112
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 26, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 26, 2022
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 21, 2022
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Iowa Department of Education will create a special group to study why students of different races or ethnicities may have different levels of academic success. This group will look at performance gaps for students from kindergarten through 12th grade. They must then give a report to the state legislature with their findings and ideas on how to help close those gaps.1
Read the official explanation
This bill directs the department of education to convene an achievement gap working group. The bill requires the working group to study any disparities in academic performance between different racial or ethnic groups of students in grades kindergarten through and provide a report to the general assembly by December 31, 2022, detailing the working group’s findings and recommendations. The report must include recommendations on how to reduce any academic performance gap that exists between different racial or ethnic groups of students.
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- SF 38 Directing the department of education to convene an achievement gap working group90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 389Nearly identical
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