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Senate approves ACT as statewide college-and-career readiness measure, sponsor cites lower fiscal cost
Summary
SB 10 moves Utah to the ACT for measuring college and career readiness (administration in grades 8, 10 and 11). Sponsor said the bill requested $2.2 million but the fiscal analyst estimated a $700,000 cost using existing funding; the Senate approved the bill and forwarded it to the House.
Senator Margaret Dayton introduced SB 10 to adopt the ACT as the statewide measure of college and career readiness for high school students, replacing the previously used Ubiscuit test. "It uses the ACT as a measurement," Dayton said, adding the measure will include testing in eighth, tenth and eleventh grades and will be…
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