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Senate Education Committee approves HB1404 to allow NDA Plus in place of some ACT uses
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted 6-0 to give House Bill 1404 a do-pass recommendation. The bill amends the North Dakota Century Code to allow the NDA Plus assessment to substitute for ACT scores in two scholarship pathways and removes an obsolete ACT accountability provision tied to prior testing choices.
The Senate Education Committee voted 6-0 to give House Bill 1404 a do-pass recommendation, advancing the bill to the Senate with a recommendation to approve. Senator Axman moved the do-pass motion and Senator Wabamont seconded it.
The bill would amend the North Dakota Century Code to let students use the NDA Plus assessment, in lieu of ACT sub-scores, for the postsecondary-ready and workforce-ready scholarship pathways if the NDA Plus score is equivalent to the ACT benchmark. It also strikes an obsolete provision that allowed certain ACT sub-scores to count as an…
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