Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1855

Modifying certain educational expectations for high school graduation;
authorizing school districts and charter schools to elect to participate in the
educational planning and assessment system program offered by ACT, inc. to
provide a longitudinal systematic approach to student educational and career
planning, assessment, instructional support and evaluation, requiring the
commissioner to provide certain ACT tests for students in certain grades;
modifying certain provisions relating to advanced placement (AP) and
international baccalaureate (IB) programs, authorizing the commissioner to pay
for out of state travel costs for teachers participating in training programs
and requiring payment for examination fees for public and nonpublic students
from low income families and to the limit of the available appropriation for a
portion or all of the examination fees for other public and nonpublic students,
providing for teacher stipends and for the award of college credit to certain
high school students; providing for the use of the college level examination
program offered by the college board for the receipt of college credit or
advanced standing, authorizing reimbursement for examination fees; modifying
certain statewide testing and reporting system provisions, changing the test
requirement for students in grade 8; requiring the commissioner of education to
adopt rules before a certain date to implement the Minnesota comprehensive
assessments second edition (MCA-IIs) in reading, mathematics and writing;
appropriating money to the commissioner for the EPAS and CLEP programs
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