GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
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HOUSE DRH80592-LE-301 (05/12)
Short Title: No Standardized Testing Unless Req'd by Feds. |
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Representative Holloway. |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to reduce spending by eliminating statewide standardized testing in the public schools, except as required by federal law or as a condition of a federal grant.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-174.11 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-174.11. Components of the testing program.
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(c) Annual Testing Program.
(1) The State Board
of Education shall adopt a system of annual testingthe tests for
grades three through 12.12 that are required by federal law or as a
condition of a federal grant. These tests shall be designed to measure
progress toward reading, communication skills, and mathematics for grades three
through eight, and toward competencies designated by the State Boardcompetencies
for grades nine through 12. The State Board may develop and implement a plan
for high school end-of-course tests that must be aligned with the content
standards developed under G.S. 115C-12(9c). Students who do not pass
the tests adopted for eighth grade shall be provided remedial instruction in
the ninth grade.
(2) If the State Board of Education finds that additional testing in grades three through 12 is desirable to allow comparisons with national indicators of student achievement, that testing shall be conducted with the smallest size sample of students necessary to assure valid comparisons with other states.
(d) The State Board of Education shall not require the public schools to administer any standardized tests except for those required by federal law or as a condition of a federal grant.
The State Board of Education shall adopt and provide to local school administrative units all tests required by federal law or as a condition of a federal grant."
SECTION 2. The following end-of-course tests are hereby eliminated:
(1) United States History.
(2) Civics and Economics.
(3) Algebra II.
(4) Physical Science.
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.