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House passes amended SB220 shifting assessments to ACT and delaying letter grades
Summary
The Utah House on March 7 passed the first substitute of Senate Bill 220, replacing some SAGE tests with ACT Aspire/ACT, reweighting accountability to focus on the lowest-performing 25%, and adopting a one-year hiatus on summative letter grades for some schools; the vote was 56–18.
The Utah House voted 56–18 on March 7 to approve the first substitute of Senate Bill 220, a wide-ranging revision of the state's student assessment and school accountability system. The bill moves 9th- and 10th-grade assessments away from SAGE toward ACT Aspire as a preparation test and uses the ACT in 11th grade. Sponsors said the change explains the bulk of the bill's fiscal note and aims to align high-school testing with college- and career-readiness measures.
The bill also reworks how schools are evaluated. Lawmakers said they retained growth and proficiency measures but added a specific focus on growth among the lowest-performing 25 percent of students and a separate measure for English learner progress. The…
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