Introduced
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To eliminate the requirement that the statewide student assessment test (the MEAP or its successor) contain a social studies component, and to require that student testing companies or organizations contracted to administer the statewide student assessment test (the MEAP or its successor) meet certain deadlines, meet certain capability standards specified in the bill, meet federal test standard mandates, and provide an individual report for each student that will identify for parents and teachers whether the student has met or failed the expectations for each question, so that problems can be remedied before the student moves to the next grade.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that reduces the authority of the MEAP advisory board; removes the social studies portion of the MEAP test; require that organizations contracted to administer the statewide student assessment test (the MEAP or its successor) provide a report for each student's parents and teachers on whether the student met the state grade level content expectations in all subjects tested; require the tests to be consistent with the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education; reduces the weighting of assessment tests in determining whether a public school be be considered "accredited;" and reduces the weighting of a school's "self assessment" in the accreditation determinination.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To break the "tie bar" to Senate Bill 1153 and related bills, which would replace the 11th grade MEAP test with a nationally recognized achievement test like the ACT.
The amendment passed by voice vote
