THE DC City Council has enacted the Raising Educational Expectations for Educational Outcomes Act of 2012 - it has not yet been signed by the Mayor. The CFO has stated that there are not funds in the budget to support this act. Following is the introduction, the legislation is attached below. To require the Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools to meet requirements and goals to ensure a reasonable expectation that children 3 and 4 years of age are prepared for kindergarten and that children in the 3rd grade meet specified academic achievements and are prepared for a 4th grade curriculum, to establish a pilot early warning and support system to track how individual students in select feeder school groups are performing on certain indicators of high school and college readiness, to require that all public high school students apply to at least one post-secondary institution before graduation, to require that all public high schools instruct students on the application process, how to apply for financial aid, and on other resources to streamline the transition to a post-secondary institution, and to require that every student take the SAT or the American College Testing program before graduation, to establish a pilot incentive program for 3 years to encourage highly effective teachers to teach in high-need schools, to require the Mayor to establish a plan to implement the pilot incentive program, to require the Mayor to establish the Community Schools Incentive Initiative, and to establish the Community Schools Fund.
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