Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law allows an eligible school board that has entered into a five-year renewable student achievement guarantee (SAGE) contract with the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to reduce class size to 15 pupils in grades kindergarten to three in schools with specified low-income enrollment to receive $2,250 for each low-income pupil enrolled in grades eligible for SAGE funding. Current law permits a school to renew and receive payments under a renewed SAGE contract if the school board maintains the reduced class size achieved during the last school year of the original SAGE contract for the grades specified for the last school year of the contract. Current law also permits DPI to waive requirements of the SAGE program in a contract entered into between DPI and a school board.

This bill changes the requirement that a school board maintain the reduced class size achieved during the last school year of the original SAGE contract as a condition for receiving payments under an existing SAGE contract, and permits a school board operating under an existing SAGE contract to do each of the following:

Who's behind it

11 lawmakers are its authors⁠. All 11 are Democrats.

6 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DPI

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

• Amendment AA1-AB808
• Amendment AA2-AB808
• LC Amendment Memo