36Specific requirement—educational accountability

36 Specific requirement—educational accountability

(1) A section 30 agreement must require the relevant authority for a non‑government school, or approved school system, to do each of the following: (a) participate in preparing a national report on the outcomes of schooling; (b) give the Minister (for inclusion in the report mentioned in paragraph (a)) a report or reports, of a kind or kinds required by the Minister, addressing the requirements for performance information specified in the regulations; (c) give the Minister (for inclusion in the report mentioned in paragraph (a)) a report or reports, of a kind or kinds required by the Minister, in relation to the student attendance information specified in the regulations; (d) give the Minister (for inclusion in the report mentioned in paragraph (a)) any other report or reports, of a kind or kinds required by the Minister. (2) A requirement referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) must be satisfied not later than: (a) if the Minister determines a date or dates for the purposes of that paragraph—that date or dates; or (b) in any other case—a date or dates that will allow publication of the report mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) to happen within one year after the end of each program year. (3) A section 30 agreement must require the relevant authority for a non‑government school, or approved school system, to do each of the following not later than a date or dates determined by the Minister for the purposes of each paragraph: (a) give the Minister a report or reports, of a kind or kinds required by the Minister, in relation to programs of financial assistance provided under this Act so far as they relate to the authority; (b) participate in evaluating the outcomes of those programs; (c) give the Minister a report or reports, of a kind or kinds required by the Minister, in relation to the relevant authority’s expenditure on the professional learning of teachers in the school or approved school system; (d) ensure that the school, or each school in the approved school system, gives the parents, guardians or other persons who have care and control of each child who: (i) attends the school; and (ii) undertakes at the school a standard assessment in reading, writing, spelling and numeracy at year 3, 5 or 7; a report of the results of that assessment against the appropriate national benchmarks, specified in the regulations, for years 3, 5 and 7; (e) ensure that the school performance information specified in the regulations is made publicly available and, if the regulations specify the manner in which the information is to be made publicly available, ensure that the information is made publicly available in that manner; (f) if the Minister considers that the relevant authority has not achieved the performance targets specified in the regulations and the Minister has directed the relevant authority to take the action specified in the direction—give the Minister a report on the action taken in response to the direction. (4) A section 30 agreement must require the relevant authority to implement, before 1 January 2008, in accordance with the regulations, the common testing standards, including common national tests, specified in the regulations, in English, mathematics, science, civics and citizenship education, and information and communications technology.