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Committee advances substitute to keep nonparticipating ELL students from inflating athletic classifications
Summary
The Education Policy Committee adopted a substitute to HB 298 that would direct the State Department of Education to adjust athletic classification counts when at least 15% of students in grades 9–11 are English learners and those EL students are not participating in athletics. The committee gave the substitute a favorable report.
Representative Coffey returned HB 298 to the Education Policy Committee after a public hearing and presented a substitute intended to protect schools whose athletic classification can spike because of sudden increases in English learner (EL) student counts.
Under the substitute, when a public school's enrollment in grades 9–11 includes at least 15% EL students the Department of Education would remove from the…
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