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Committee advances amended bill changing how computer science credit can be awarded in high schools
Summary
Sen. Jim Dodson’s SB 369 was amended to preserve previously earned weighted credit and to allow a high-school computer-science graduation requirement to be met by a CTE course with at least 50% computer-science content; code.org testified in opposition citing implementation and equity concerns.
Sen. Jim Dodson presented amendments to SB 369 focused on protecting students who had already earned weighted credit and on expanding the definition of a computer-science graduation requirement so it can be satisfied by a career-and-technical-education (CTE) course containing at least 50% computer-science content.
Dodson told the committee the changes aim to embed computer science into…
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