161.1090.  School turnaround program, purpose — criteria, designation of schools in need. — 1.  Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish a school turnaround program to assist schools designated by the department as in need of intervention in accordance with the provisions of sections 161.1080 to 161.1130.

  2.  The department shall use an outcome-based measure to set criteria for the designation of schools in need of intervention.

  3.  No more than one month after statewide assessment results are made public, the department shall designate specific schools as in need of intervention.  The department shall designate a school as in need of intervention only if sufficient funds are available in the school turnaround fund established in section 161.1105 to pay an independent school turnaround expert.

  4.  The department shall determine the specific criteria that a school shall be required to meet in order to exit the school turnaround program based on the same outcome-based measure that was used to designate the school as in need of intervention.

  5.  The department shall not designate any school as in need of intervention before September 1, 2020.

  6.  Nothing in this section shall prohibit the criteria established under this section from satisfying a school's requirement for intervention under the every student succeeds act.