S704 - COVID-19 Recovery Act . (SL 2020-3)
Session Year 2020
Overview: Sec. 2.3 of S.L. 2020-3 does the following:
- Waives the end-of-grade and end-of-course tests for the 2019-2020 school year.
- Provides that public school units must administer the norm-referenced college admissions test that was made available by the State Board of Education (SBE) to all students who were in the 11th grade during the 2019-2020 school year to any student who was not administered the test during the 2019-2020 school year. The test must be administered during the fall semester of the 2020-2021 school year unless the student has already taken a comparable test and scored at or above a level set by the SBE.
- Waives any required diagnostic and formative reading assessments after March 16, 2020, for the 2019-2020 school year for kindergarten, first, second, and third grade students.
- Provides that, for the spring semester of the 2019-2020 school year, local school administrative units are not required to administer the WorkKeys test to any student who completes a concentration in career and technical education courses.
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