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Bill in the Legislature Would Shift Statewide Writing Assessment to 10th Grade
Summary
Assessment staff warned Senate Bill 39 would move statewide writing from eighth grade to tenth grade and fold ninth–10th grade testing into the standard 3–10 assessment, requiring changes to current field tests and reporting plans.
An assessment office staff member told Utah assessment directors on Jan. 16 that Senate Bill 39, if passed as written, would amend the statewide assessment code and shift the state's writing summative from eighth grade to 10th grade.
The official said the bill text posted to participants would revise code 53E-4-303 (the statewide assessment statute) and repeal 53E-4-304, consolidating grade spans so the standard assessment covers 3rd through 10th grades. “So we would include 10th grade in our standard assessment that would be for English, science, and math,” the…
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