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HB 1306 Graduation requirements; naturalization test.

Introduced by: Richard P. Bell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Graduation requirements; naturalization test. Directs the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to require each eleventh grade student to achieve a passing score on the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test based on the current scoring guidelines adopted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services beginning with the 2017-2018 school year. The bill requires the Department of Education to publish on its website school-level, school-division-level, and statewide passage rates.


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