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EXPLANATION: Provides for an exemption from the high school exit exam and directs a study committee to review the exam
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 1A,
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - EIA, page 365, after line 19, by
adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/ For the current fiscal year a student's score on the
exit exam may not be used as criterion for graduation and a
student must not be required to achieve any minimum score to
graduate. An eligible student who previously failed to receive a
high school diploma or was denied graduation solely for failing
the required exit exam may reenroll in high school and will not
have to pass the exit exam in order to receive a high school
diploma. The State Board of Education shall waive any
conflicting requirements and regulations.
There is created a High School Assessment Study
Committee. The study committee must be composed of the following
members who will serve without compensation:
(1)
one member appointed by the Governor;
(2)
one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives;
(3)
one member appointed by the Chairman of the House
Education and Public Works Committee;
(4)
one member appointed by the President Pro Tempore
of the Senate;
(5)
one member appointed by the Chairman of the Senate
Education Committee;
(6)
one member appointed by the State Superintendent of
Education, who shall serve as chair of the committee; and
(7)
one member appointed by the Chairman of the
Education Oversight Committee.
(C) Vacancies in
the membership of the study committee must be filled for the
remainder of the unexpired term in the manner of original
appointment.
The committee must consider whether
the High School Assessment Program (HSAP) test should remain the
State's accountability assessment or to replace it with a
different assessment. Further the committee must suggest an
alternative assessment if the committee determines that the
HSAP should be replaced and shall review the costs associated
with a change of assessments. No later than January 31, 2014 the
committee shall make recommendations concerning proposed changes
to the Chairman of the House Education and Public Works
Committee, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and the Chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, at which time the study
committee must be dissolved. Staff will be provided by the
Senate Education Committee and the House Education Committee
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Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.