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1998 SESSION

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HB 409 Literacy Passport Tests.

Introduced by: John S. Reid | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Literacy Passport Tests. Phases out the current Literacy Passport testing requirement set forth in the Standards of Quality as follows: in school year 1997-98, the Literacy Passport Test (LPT) shall be administered to students in grades six, seven, and eight, and to graded students and ungraded students, as applicable, in grades nine through twelve, and to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. For students in grade six in school year 1997-1998, the test results shall be for informational purposes only and shall not be used as a graduation requirement or for classification as a ninth grader but shall be used for remediation purposes. In school year 1998-1999, the LPT shall be administered to students in grade eight, and to graded students and ungraded students, as applicable, in grades nine through twelve, and to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. In school year 1999-2000, the LPT shall be administered to graded students and ungraded students, as applicable, in grades nine through twelve, and to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. In school year 2000-2001, the LPT shall be administered to graded students and ungraded students, as applicable, in grades ten through twelve, and to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. In school year 2001-2002, the LPT shall be administered to graded students and ungraded students, as applicable, in grades eleven and twelve, and to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. In school years 2002-2003, 2003-2004, and 2004-2005, the LPT shall be administered to graded students and ungraded students, as applicable, in grade twelve, and to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. After school year 2004-2005, the LPT shall be administered only to adults and students returning to upgrade a certificate of completion or special diploma to a standard or advanced studies diploma. An enactment clause also calls for the Board of Education, following the 1998 and 1999 administration of the SOL assessments, to determine the degree to which the current funding mechanisms are sufficient to address the remedial needs of students failing the SOL assessments, for the purposes of determining the future fiscal impact of requiring remediation for such students. The Board must provide, to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Education, and the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health, by December 1, 1998, an interim report addressing their initial findings and, by December 1, 1999, a final report on the findings for both years and any recommendations for the current remedial education and at-risk funding programs for the 2000-2002 biennial budget, to ensure access to remedial services for those students failing the SOL assessments.


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