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HB 2590 Finan. assistance for Advan. Placement & Int'l Baccalaureate exam.

Introduced by: Mary T. Christian | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Financial assistance to certain students for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate examinations. Requires local school boards to provide financial assistance to students to cover the costs of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate examinations, if the students are enrolled full-time in the public schools, have been placed in or meet the qualifications for placement in Advanced Placement courses and the International Baccalaureate program, and are eligible for free or reduced lunch. Students who meet the aforementioned qualifications, but are ineligible to receive free or reduced lunch, are also eligible for such financial assistance, if they have been identified by a teacher, school principal, guidance counselor or other school personnel as unable to afford the costs of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate examinations due to the unemployment of a parent, the serious or life-threatening illness of an immediate family member, the inability of a parent to afford the costs of such examinations for more than one eligible student, or other substantiated family financial exigency. This bill also establishes which students shall be eligible for the assistance; requires local school boards to establish policies to implement the law; sets out the procedure by which school boards will receive funding to assist needy students; and requires local school boards to report after the close of each school year the number of students served, those unable to be served due to lack of resources, the type of examination taken by and the score credited to the student, and the total costs of such examinations to the Department of Education. The Department of Education must use this information to establish a profile of students receiving financial assistance and baseline data to calculate and project the need for future state funds to support the program.


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