AB642: Bill Text

LRB-3942/2

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1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE

1997 Assembly BILL 642

December 2, 1997 - Introduced by Representatives Wasserman and Otte. Referred to Committee on Education.

AB642,1,3 An Act to amend 118.33 (1) (e); and to create 118.30 (5) of the statutes; relating to: the requirement that school boards administer statewide pupil assessments.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires every school board to administer statewide assessments in the 4th, 8th and 10th grades. Beginning in the 2000-01 school year, each school board operating high school grades must also administer a high school graduation examination. (The 10th grade examination is not required to be administered after the 2000-01 school year.) This bill authorizes a school board to exempt itself from administering one or more of the examinations by adopting a resolution to that effect.

Under current law, a school board must develop alternative high school graduation criteria for evaluating a pupil who has been excused from the high school graduation examination. This bill provides that a school board need not develop such alternative criteria for those pupils or for pupils who have not taken the high school graduation examination because the school board has adopted a resolution exempting itself from the requirement to administer the examination.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB642, s. 1 Section 1. 118.30 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

AB642,1,6 118.30 (5) (a) A school board may exempt itself from administering one or more of the examinations under sub. (1m) by adopting a resolution to that effect.

AB642,2,2 (b) A resolution adopted under par. (a) remains in effect until the school board adopts a resolution specifying otherwise.

AB642, s. 2 Section 2. 118.33 (1) (e) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB642,2,11 118.33 (1) (e) Each school board shall may develop alternative criteria for evaluating a pupil who has been excused from not taken the high school graduation examination under as a result of s. 118.30 (2) (b) 3. or (5). A school board may grant a high school diploma to a pupil who has been excused from not taken the high school graduation examination under as a result of s. 118.30 (2) (b) 3. or (5) if the pupil satisfies all of the other requirements under this subsection and satisfies the any other criteria developed by the school board.

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