§70-1210.541.

§70-1210.541.
   
   A. The State Board of Education shall determine and adopt a series of
   student performance levels for the criterion-referenced tests
   administered pursuant to the Oklahoma School Testing Program Act,
   Section 1210.505 et seq. of this title. The performance levels shall
   be known as the Oklahoma Performance Index and shall be set by a
   method similar to that used for the achievement levels on the National
   Assessment of Educational Progress. Student performance levels shall
   be labeled: advanced, satisfactory, limited knowledge, and
   unsatisfactory.
   
   B. Contingent upon the availability of funds, the State Board of
   Education shall award school sites which demonstrate academic
   achievement on the criterion-referenced tests as determined by the
   Oklahoma Performance Index. The award shall consist of recognition and
   incentive for achievement measured against benchmarks. The State Board
   of Education shall report to the Legislature by November 1 of each
   year the school sites which have demonstrated academic achievement
   pursuant to the provisions of this subsection.
   
   C. For the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 school years, the State Board of
   Education shall identify and publish annually by site and by district
   the results of the tests, presented in context with other relevant
   information. By February 1, 2000, the State Department of Education
   shall make recommendations to the Legislature to identify sites at
   which a specified percentage of students score Unsatisfactory on the
   Oklahoma Performance Index in both reading/English and mathematics on
   the grade-level criterion-referenced tests or on the secondary
   end-of-instruction tests. Other relevant information employed by the
   State Board of Education to identify low-performing and high challenge
   schools may include, but shall not be limited to, the following
   criteria:
   
   1. Delineation of the percentages of students not tested on
   criterion-referenced tests;
   
   2. High school graduation, student attendance, and student dropout
   rates;
   
   3. Teacher attendance rates;
   
   4. Student suspensions and other disciplinary measures which can be
   quantified;
   
   5. Secondary student participation in and completion of the Oklahoma
   Higher Learning Access Program when applicable;
   
   6. Student vocational-technical program participation and completion
   rates;
   
   7. Student college entrance and preparatory test-taking rates;
   
   8. Parental involvement rates; and
   
   9. Any indicators reported through the Oklahoma Educational Indicators
   Program.
   
   By November 1, 2000, the State Department of Education shall make
   recommendations to the Legislature for the identification of
   low-performing and high challenge schools based upon the four student
   performance levels required in the Oklahoma Performance Index as
   specified in subsection A of this section. Such school shall be
   declared a low-performing school, if so identified for one (1) or two
   (2) consecutive years, and shall be declared a high challenge school
   if so identified for three (3) consecutive years, by the State Board
   of Education. Subject to the availability of funds, the State
   Department of Education shall provide funding to such sites for
   remediation. The State Board of Education shall assign a team to
   provide guidance and assistance to the school site and district until
   the site is no longer declared to be low-performing or high challenge.
   Other means of intervention which may be exercised by the State Board
   of Education may include but are not necessarily limited to: special
   funding; reassignment of district personnel; transfer of students;
   operation of the school by personnel employed by the State Department
   of Education; mandatory annexation of all or part of the local school
   district; and placing operation of the school with an institution of
   higher education as a developmental research school pursuant to the
   provisions of Sections 1210.571 through 1210.579 of this title if the
   high challenge school is within a single-site district and is within
   ten (10) miles of a college of education within an institution of The
   Oklahoma State System of Higher Education.