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Assessment--Accommodations


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State Status/Date Level Summary
CASigned into law 08/2012P-12Exit Exam and Students with Disabilities
A.B. 1705
Delays until Class of 2016 the implementation of alternative means for students with disabilites to demonstrate achievement of standards as ...

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TXAdopted 05/2012P-12Implementation of Testing Program
19 TAC 101.3001, 3003, 3011, 3021, 3022, 3023, 3024
From Texas Register: Repeals §101.3001 and §101.3003 and adopts new §§101.3011 and 101.3021-101.3024, concerning implementation of testing p...

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CAAdopted 04/2012P-12CAHSEE Alternative Means
5 CA ADC 1216.1
Adopts emergency regulation to extend to January 1, 2013 deadline for state board to implement regulations providing for an "alternative mea...

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TXAdopted 12/2011P-12Assessment of English Language Learners
19 TAC 101.1001, 1003, 1005, 1007, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1021, 1023, 1025
Repeals and readopts numerous sections concerning the participation of limited English proficient students in state assessments, to reflect ...

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CAVetoed 10/2011P-12Assessment of LEP Students and Students with Disabilities
A.B. 532
From bill summary: Requires California's assessments to be valid, reliable, and comparable for pupils who are limited English proficient and...

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WASigned into law 04/2011P-12Assessment
H.B. 1519
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to continue to actively collaborate with teachers
and directors of special e...

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CAVetoed 09/2010P-12Including Primary Language Assessment in State Assessment/Accountability System
S.B. 930
From bill summary: Requires that any primary language assessment developed by the department and administered to limited English proficient ...

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MSSigned into law 04/2010P-12Specified Accomodations
H.B. 631
Requires local school districts to use certain accommodations to preserve integrity and validity of student assessment test.
http://billstat...

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VASigned into law 02/2010P-12Audit of Use of Alternative Assessment
H.B. 304
Requires the Board of Education to conduct an audit of any school division that utilizes the Virginia Grade Level Alternative assessment ins...

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NYAdopted 01/2010P-12Regents Requirements for Students with Disabilities
Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.5
Amends section 100.5 to extend the Regents Competency Test (RCT) safety net provision for an additional year, thereby allowing students with...

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ILAdopted 11/2009P-12Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision
23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737
Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in natur...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12State Assessments
H.B. 3 - Section 50 through 52
Directs the state education agency, in developing state assessments for math, reading, writing, social studies and science for grades 3-8, t...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Accommodations and Exemptions
H.B. 3 - Section 56
Whereas former language allowed students with an IEP to be exempted from criterion-referenced assessments in grades 3-8, end-of-course asses...

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OHAdopted 06/2009P-12State Assessments
OAC 3301-13-02
Clarifies circumstances under which a student may be excused from taking a state test required at the student's grade level. Clarifies that ...

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ARSigned into law 04/2009P-12Accomodations for Students with Difficulty with Sensory Processing
S.B. 358
Allows reasonable accommodation by the Department of Education and each school district for a student who has difficulty with sensory proces...

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KYSigned into law 03/2009P-12Assessment of Exceptional Students
S.B. 1 Section 20
Requires the state department of education and state board, as they revise the state assessment and accountability system for implementation...

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LAAdopted 02/2009P-12State LEAP Alternative Assessments
LAC 28:CXI.Chapter 19, 1901 to 1925
Amends rules relating to LEAP Alternate Assessments.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v111/28v111.doc#_Toc222644588...

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KYAdopted 02/2009P-12Special Populations in the State-Required Assessment
703 KAR 5:070
Establishes procedures for the inclusion of special student populations in the State-required assessment and accountability programs. http:/...

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TXAdopted 02/2009P-12Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills
19 TAC 2.101.B.101.23
Sets the standard of satisfactory performance on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), as appropriate for the reading and mat...

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LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Alternative Assessment Results
LAC 28:LXXXIII.3905
Amends rules relating to the school, district and state accountability system. Relates to the inclusion of alternate assessment results for ...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12exit exams
S.B. 1446
Reenacts provisions of former law which required a school district or state special school to grant a high school diploma to a pupil with a ...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Alternate assessments
A.B. 2040
Relates to a high school exit examination in English language arts and mathematics. Creates a panel to make recommendations regarding altern...

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IDAdopted 08/2008P-12LEP Assessment
IDAPA 08.02.03
Amends rules relating to thoroughness. Requires that first year limited English proficient students are required to take the standard achiev...

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AKAdopted 10/2007P-12ALTERNATE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
4 AAC 04.160, .775
Amends rules dealing with alternate performance standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities to include proficiency levels...

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AKAdopted 10/2007P-12ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
4 AAC 06.775
Adopts by reference, the 2007 edition of the Participation Guidelines for Alaska Students, setting forth the requirements in assessments for...

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ILAdopted 09/2007P-12Testing, Professional Development and Background Checks at Special Education Facilities
23 IAC 401.10 thru .260 (non seq.)
Amends policies regarding the assessment of special education students at nonpublic, public out-of-state, public residential or private spec...

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GAAdopted 09/2007P-12Student Assessment Programs
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Adds language regarding the Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for EL...

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AKAdopted 09/2007P-12ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
4 AAC 06.775
Adopts by reference, the 2007 edition of the Participation Guidelines for Alaska Students, setting forth the requirements in assessments for...

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LAAdopted 08/2007P-12School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.4302 and 4313
Revises the use of Alternative Assessment results in accountability as suggested by the Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committ...

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LAAdopted 06/2007P-12Integrated LEAP and Accommodations for Special Populations
LAC 28:CXI.1709-1729, 3306, and 3307
Provides information regarding addition of achievement level descriptors for iLEAP, which causes a reformatting of a chapter. Adds language ...

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LAAdopted 03/2007P-12Participation in Alternate Assessments
LAC 28:XCVII.905
Clarifies guidelines for the participation in alternate assessments for students with disabilities who cannot participate in regular assessm...

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LAAdopted 03/2007P-12Statewide Assessments
LAC 28:CXI.305 and Chapter 19
Approves for advertisement revisions to Bulletin 118- Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices. Consolidates statewide test information....

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LAAdopted 02/2007P-12Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
LAC 28:CXI.Chapters 1, 3, 5, 18, 23, 27, 33, and 35
Makes various changes to state assessment system. Creates end-of-course tests, to be phased in over a period of six years starting in fall 2...

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LAAdopted 02/2007P-12State Assessment System
LAC 28:CXI.Chapter 17 and 20
Adds new language in Chapter 17 regarding statewide assessments. Updates Integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP) (Chapte...

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CAVetoed 09/2006P-12Assessment Accommodations for ELL Students
S.B. 1580
Requires a pupil identified as limited English proficient and who is either literate or receives instruction in his or her primary language ...

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FLSigned into law 05/2006P-12High School Graduation Requirements for Students with Disabilities
H.B. 7087 - Section 23 (3) - (8)
Requires local boards to modify basic courses, as necessary, to to assure exceptional students the opportunity to meet the graduation requir...

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OKSigned into law 05/2006P-12End-of-Instruction Exams
S.B. 1792 - Section 6
Clarifies that 2 of the 6 end-of-course exams all students must pass effective with the Class of 2012 are Algebra I and English II. Provide...

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AZSigned into law 05/2006P-12Assessment of Students w/ Disabilities
S.B. 1380
All students with disabilities in grades 2-12 will ge included in all state and district assessments, with appropriate accommodations and al...

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FLSigned into law 05/2006P-12Alternative Assessments for Students with Disabilities
H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Legislation adds a provision for alternative assessments.
For students seeking a special diploma (pursuant to s. 1003.438), the Department o...

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IDSigned into law 04/2006P-12Exempting ELLs in U.S. Less Than Two Years
H.B. 739
Provides that a student who has been enrolled for less than 2 full school years in an elementary or secondary school in the U.S. and who sco...

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LAAdopted 02/2006P-12Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
LAC 28:CXI.107, 305, 307, 309, 313, 315, 701, 1101, 1115, 1141, 1151,1153, 1301, 1313, 1335, 1345, 1347, 1349, 1351, 1355, 1501, 1701, 1901, 2001,2501, 2701, 3303, 3305, 3307
Amends Bulletin 118--Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices.

(1) Revise the names of two of Louisiana's statewide assessment tests ...

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LAAdopted 12/2005P-12Testing Students with Disabilities
LAC 28:XXXIX.503 and 1301
Revises high stakes testing policy for students with disabilities to meet federal requirements.
Page 39 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/o...

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LAAdopted 12/2005P-12Alternate Assessment Participation Guidelines
LAC 28:XCVII.901-907
Establishes guidelines for the participation of students with disabilities in alternate assessments who cannot participate in regular assess...

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LAAdopted 12/2005P-12General Education Exam and Students with Disabilities
LAC 28: CXV.2319
Allows the Superintendent of Education to waive the final component of the General Education Exam for student with disabilities if the Depar...

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GAAdopted 12/2005P-12Procedures for Exemption from Graduation Exam
GAC 160-1-3-.09
Establishes "variance" procedure for a student not eligible for waiver (not rendered incapable of passing a section of the GHSGT or the
GHSW...

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WVAdopted 11/2005P-12Alternate Academic Achievement Standards
Title 126, Series 44P
WEST VIRGINIA 4765, SUMMARY:  Amends rules relating to alternate academic achievement standards for West Virginia schools.
EFFECTIVE DATE: 1...

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LAAdopted 11/2005P-12NCLB Assessment and AYP
LAC 28:LXXXIII.305, 509, 703, 3901-3905
Amends the accountability system calculations to take advantage of new flexibility in guidance for No Child Left Behind and address situatio...

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CAVetoed 10/2005P-12Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners
S.B. 385
This bill would require a pupil to take achievement tests in his or her primary language, if the pupil is identified as limited English prof...

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CASigned into law 10/2005P-12Assessing English Language Learners; and Posting State Test Items
S.B. 755
This bill would require a pupil identified as limited English proficient who is enrolled in any of grades 2 to 11, and who either receives i...

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GAAdopted 07/2005P-12Student Assessments
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Clarifies rules regarding testing programs and student assessment. Clarifies assessment participation requirements for English language lear...

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LASigned into law 06/2005P-12Alternative Assessments/Accomodations
S.B. 214
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:24.4(F)(3), relative to alternative assessments for students with certain disabilities. Requires that, i...

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IDTemporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 06/2005P-12Alternate Standard Achievement Test for LEP Students
IDAPA 08.02.03
Proposes rules regarding the Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. Sets forth rules for LEP students to take an alternate Standard Achi...

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MSRule Adoption 05/2005P-12Statewide Assessment System
IIB-3
Provides that the information contained within the Guidelines for Testing Students with Disabilities and the Guidelines for Educational Serv...

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COSigned into law 05/2005P-12Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in State Assessment
H.B. 1246
Provides that if, as part of a student's individual educational program (IEP), a student attends part-time a school or program away from the...

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OKSigned into law 05/2005P-12Achieving Classroom Excellence Task Force
S.B. 982, Section 4
Section 4 creates the Achieving Classroom Excellence Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to study the testing requirements for eigh...

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AZSigned into law 04/2005P-12Special Education and the AIMS
S.B. 1352
States that a student with an individualized education program (IEP) is not required to earn a passing score on a competency test required f...

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CAVetoed 09/2004P-12Special Education: Visually Impaired Pupils
A.B. 662
Creates the Advisory Task Force for Education of Blind and Visually Impaired Pupils to provide input to formulate the most effective policy ...

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MSRule Adoption 07/2004P-12Assessment of Students with Disabilities
IIIB-3
Establishes rules regarding assessment of students with disabilities. Provides that the information contained within the guidelines for test...

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IDTemporary Rule Adoption 05/2004P-12Language Proficiency for LEP Students
IDAPA 08.02.03 §§ 111-112
Amends rules to allow new Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to take a language proficiency test in lieu of the state reading test.
...

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LAAdopted 04/2004P-12School, District and State Accountability
LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005
Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achi...

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LAAdopted 04/2004P-12Curricular Design for Exceptional Students
LAC 28:I.901
Repeals rules that address alternate assessment and curricular design for students with disabilities in special schools. Provides consistenc...

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MARule Adoption 03/2004P-12Comprehensive Assessment System Performance Appeals
603 CMR 30.00
Amends rules relating to the Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) performance appeals process, and incorporates provisions regarding stude...

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MAEmergency Rule Adoption 02/2004P-12Comprehensive Assessment System and Standards
603 CMR 30.00
Establishes emergency rules relating to students with disabilities. Revises rules that relates to performance appeals. MASSACHUSETTS REG 828...

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TXEmergency Rule Adoption 07/2003P-12Texas Success Initiative
19 TAC 4.51 thru .60
Establishes rules to implement the Success Initiative. Provides purpose, authority, and definitions. Specifies exemptions and exceptions. Co...

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TXSigned into law 05/2003P-12Special Education Programs In Public Schools
H.B. 447
A special education student can be exempted from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) and given an alternative assessment ins...

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MNSigned into law 05/2003P-12Profile of Learning, High School Graduation Requirements, NCLB-Compliant Testing System, State Standards
H.F. 302 (multiple provisions)
Effective the 2003-04 school year and later, bars the state education commissioner from implementing the profile of learning portion of the ...

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GASigned into law 05/2003P-12Assessment, Maximum Class size, Instruction, Revenue
S.B. 249
Revises provisions relating to payment of fees for advanced placement tests; revises provision relating to the release of certain test quest...

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MNSigned into law 05/2003P-12
Postsec.
Commissioner Recommendation Required on Provisions of State High School Tests
H.F. 302 (multiple provisions)
Effective the day after enactment, requires the commissioner to provide written recommendations to the committees of the legislature having ...

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UTBecame law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 01/2003P-12Education Testing
H.B. 6005
Relates to education testing amendments. Eliminates the requirement to include constructed response test times in certain achievement tests....

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CAVetoed 09/2002P-12Alternate assessments for exit examination for individuals with disabilities
A.B. 2600
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the advisory committee established by this bill to develop guidelines regarding the me...

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FLSigned into law 06/2002P-12Education Code Re-Write: Assessment Cutoff Scores, Accommodations
S.B. 20E
Grandfathers in the scores of 10th-graders who took the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in spring 2001. Requires that when stat...

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MOSigned into law 06/2002P-12Major Bill - Assessment Component
H.B. 1711
For students who receive special education services, the state board must, through a teacher panel, determine if appropriate alternate asses...

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CTSigned into law 06/2001P-12Change in Exemptions for limited-English-proficient students
H.B. 6751
Limits the exemptions from the Connecticut Master Test and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test for limited-English-proficient students...

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COSigned into law 05/2001P-12Exempting Schools with a large amount of students who have IEPs
H.B. 1348
Authorizes the State Board of Education by rule to exclude a school from receiving an academic performance grade if more than 95% of the stu...

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MOSigned into law 05/2001P-12Assessment Requirements for Limited English, Low-Performing and Special Education Students
S.B. 319
Provides that assessment scores of students for whom English is a second language (ESL) shall not be counted until the student has been educ...

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TNSigned into law 05/2001P-12Testing Accomodations
S.B. 343
Requires the state department of education to develop alternative assessment for disabled students. The department is required to develop tw...

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NMVetoed 04/2001P-12Students Tested; Reporting
S.B. 660
Relates to annual school accountability reporting. There are five indices through which public school performance shall be measured and rep...

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TXSigned into law 04/2001P-12Accomodation for Mobility and Language
S.B. 676
Students are exempt from testing for a period of up to one year after initial enrollment in a school in the United States if the student is ...

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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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