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From the ECS State Policy Database
2000 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2000. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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State Status/Date Level Summary
+ Accountability
+ Accountability--Accreditation
+ Accountability--Measures/Indicators
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+ Accountability--Rewards
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive
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- Assessment
CASigned into law 09/2000P-12Changes in The State's Academic Performance Index
S.B. 1552
Makes clarifying changes in those provisions pertaining to the indicators used to evaluate the performance of schools in the Academic Performance Index; makes a specified appropriation available for allocation and expenditure in the 2000-01 fiscal year....

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CAVetoed 09/2000P-12Assessment of Special Education Students
A.B. 1940
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, performance goals for individuals with exceptional needs; requires individuals with exceptional needs to be included in general statewide and districtwide ...

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CASigned into law 09/2000P-12State Standardized Test
A.B. 2812
Deletes the intent of the Legislature regarding the augmentation of the achievement test and instead would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to provide for the development of an assessment instrume...

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UTSigned into law 09/2000P-12Establishment of U-PASS Assessment Program
H.B. 177
Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for stud...

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TNSigned into law 06/2000P-12Assessing Students with Disabilities
H.J.R. 589
Urges Department of Education to modify and revise portfolio assessment piloted for evaluating students with disabilities who do not participate in statewide assessment....

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ALSigned into law 05/2000P-12State Assessment Requirements
S.B. 551
Relates to the assessment of student achievement in the public schools; removes the requirement that the board implement a nationally normed test in specified grades; requires that the board implement an assessment program in specified grades and assessment an...

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ALSigned into law 05/2000P-12
Postsec.
Tutoring Services for SAT
S.B. 169
Relates to Stanford Achievement Tests (SAT) given to students in public schools as required by the State Department of Education; provides for tutoring services for reading and other subjects in which a student scores or is assessed at a below average range....

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MNSigned into law 05/2000P-12Profiles of Learning
S.F. 3286
Amends the Profile of Learning. Highlights: Allows districts to phase in the number of content standards required of students for graduation; empowers teachers to participate in the decision about student standard requirements; allows districts to permit this...

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MNSigned by governor 05/2000P-12Statewide Tests
H.B. 3800
Specifies that the passing scores in reading and mathematics are the equivalent of 70 percent correct for students entering grade 9 in 1996 and 75 percent correct for those entering grade 9 in 1997 and thereafter, as based on the first uniform test administrat...

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OKSigned into law 05/2000P-12Assessment
S.B. 491
Modifies the Oklahoma School Testing Program by administering a norm-referenced test in the third-grade beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to continue until the third-grade criterion-referenced test (CRT) is implemented. Field testing of the third grade...

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PASigned into law 05/2000P-12
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Community College
Accountability, Funding
S.B. 652
Act No. 16 of 2000., Amends the Public School Code. Provides funding for basic education, services to nonpublic schools, special education, professional development, school lunch and breakfast programs, higher education, full-time student community college rei...

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AZVetoed 04/2000P-12State Testing
S.B. 1300
Establishes the 15-member Maintenance and Operations Task Force and the 21-member Joint Legislative Study Committee on the Impact of State Required Student Tests Committee; lowers the grade levels that are offered by the nationally standardized norm-referenced...

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AZSigned into law 04/2000P-12Statewide Testing
S.B. 1139
States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Bo...

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DESigned into law 04/2000P-12Testing Program Logistics
H.J.R. 20
Requires the Department of Education to make a report on the logistics of the Delaware Student Testing Program and to provide a plan regarding the test turnaround time so that local school districts can plan summer school effectively and efficiently....

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LASigned into law 04/2000P-12Testing
S.B. 33A
Exempts certain testing instruments, test answers, and individual student test scores from the public records laws....

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NESigned into law 04/2000P-12Local Assessment System
L.B. 812
Directs the state board to develop sufficiently clear and measurable model academic content standards. Additionally, each school district in the state is required to develop measurable academic standards that would need to be the same as, equally rigorous as o...

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VASigned into law 04/2000P-12Multiple Assessments
H.B. 1484
Authorizes the Board of Education to provide multiple assessments; includes on-line computer tests, field tests, and evaluation of student progress during and after remediation....

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VASigned into law 04/2000P-12Option for End-of-Course Tests
H.B. 1020
Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to t...

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COSigned into law 03/2000P-12Omnibus Bill - Accountability
S.B. 186
Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; specifies the methodology for such evaluation; requires the department to develop a comprehensive data collection and repor...

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GASigned into law 03/2000P-12Omnibus Bill - Assessment Components
H.B. 1187
Mandates Criterion Reference Competency Tests (CRCT's) in grades 1-8. English, language arts, math and reading will be assessed in grades 1-8. Science and social studies will be added for grades 3-8. End-of-course tests in high school for core subject areas wi...

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GASigned into law 03/2000P-12Omnibus Bill - Student IEP as Alternative Assessment
H.B. 1187
A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment....

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VASigned into law 03/2000P-12Accelerated Learning
H.B. 1196
Requires Board of Education to establish requirements to facilitate acceleration of students who are qualified under standard of learning assessment to sit for relevant test and to obtain credit, including verified credit upon achieving a passing score....

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VASigned into law 03/2000P-12More Timely Results/Standards of Learning
S.B. 318
Directs the Board of Education to schedule the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to be graded by computerized or other automated means to occur no earlier than 2 weeks before the end of the relevant course....

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VASigned into law 03/2000P-12Standards of Learning Assessments
H.B. 1019
Requires the Board of Education to make publicly available the Standards of Learning assessments in a timely manner and as soon as practicable following the administration of these tests, so long as this release does not compromise test security or deplete the...

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VASigned into law 02/2000P-12Diploma Requirements
H.B. 489
Requires the Board of Education to include, in the requirement for verified credits for the standard and advanced studies diplomas, a provision that allows students completing elective classes into which the Standards of Learning for any required course have b...

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