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House amends school-grading law to account for computer-adaptive testing and ACT benchmarks
Summary
Senate Bill 209, a set of amendments to school-grading statutes that add flexibility for computer-adaptive testing base-year measures, exempt alternative schools from the grading matrix, and reference ACT college-readiness benchmarks, passed the House 62-12 after extended debate.
Senate Bill 209, a complex package of amendments to Utah’s school-grading statute, passed the Utah House 62-12 after extended floor debate about methodology, fairness and consequences for schools serving special-needs and at-risk populations.
Representative Hughes presented an amendment adopting flexibility for the state board of education in the first year of computer-adaptive testing, allowing the board to use a base year and not require scale-score alignment between the…
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