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Committee hears bill to let new NDA+ test and military courses qualify students for North Dakota scholarship
Summary
A bill before the Senate Education Committee would let students use an equivalent score on the new NDA+ statewide assessment in place of an ACT 24 for scholarship pathways and add a two-credit military coursework pathway as an alternative indicator for the military-ready route.
House Bill 1404 would add options for students to qualify for the North Dakota Scholarship, including using a scale score on the new NDA+ summative assessment equivalent to an ACT score of 24 and allowing completion of two credits of specified military coursework as an additional indicator in the military-ready pathway.
Representative Cynthia Schreiberbeck, District 25, introduced the bill and asked the committee for favorable consideration.
Jim Uppgren, Department of Public Instruction (DPI), provided detailed testimony. “The North Dakota Scholarship is a $6,000 college scholarship awarded to students based on requirements met while they were in high school,” Uppgren told the committee. He said the scholarship is aligned with the state’s Choice Ready high school accountability metrics but is written with “rigorous expectations above and beyond what’s required for the basic Choice Ready baseline graduation…
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