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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 137 By: Dahm
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to schools; directing the State
66	66	Department of Education to implement a f our-year
67	67	pilot program beginning in certain school year to
68	68	provide courses and assessments on certain subjects
69	69	to certain students; directing the Department to
70	70	contract with certain provider; requiring certain
71	71	courses to be made available; requiring
72	72	administration of certain assessment; req uiring
73	73	submission of assessment scores; requiring the
74	74	Department to post certain scores on its website in
75	75	certain manner; allowing the State Board of Education
76	76	to develop certain r ules; requiring pilot program end
77	77	by certain date; requiring sub mission of report by
78	78	certain date; providing for contents of report;
79	79	providing for promulga tion of rules; providing for
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81	81	declaring an emergency .
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87	87	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
88	88	SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
89	89	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 11-103.6p of Title 70, unless
90	90	there is created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
91	91	A. Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, the State Department
92	92	of Education shall implement a four-year pilot program to provide
93	93	courses and assessments in U nited States history, government , and
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145	145	civics to eleventh-grade students enrolled in public school
146	146	districts and public c harter schools in this s tate.
147	147	B. The State Department of Education shall contract with a
148	148	provider that will make online courses and assessments available to
149	149	eleventh-grade students at no cost to the State Department of
150	150	Education or participating public sc hool districts or public charter
151	151	schools. The contracted provider shall make the following courses
152	152	available:
153	153	1. Introduction to the United States Constitution;
154	154	2. The Meaning and History of t he United States Constitution;
155	155	3. The Progressive Rejection of the Founding Fathers and the
156	156	Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism;
157	157	4. Civil Rights in American History; and
158	158	5. The Federalist Papers.
159	159	C. After completing the courses required by subsection B of
160	160	this section, eleven th-grade students shall be administered an
161	161	assessment on the conte nt of the courses. School districts and
162	162	public charter schools shall submit assessment scores to the State
163	163	Department of Education, which shall post the scores on its website
164	164	in a manner that complies with the Student Dat a Accessibility,
165	165	Transparency and Accountability Act of 2013 and the Family
166	166	Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).
167	167	D. The State Board of Education may develop rules to determine
168	168	if the pilot program courses taught pursuant to this section are
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220	220	eligible for academic credit toward meeting the graduation
221	221	requirements set forth in Section 11 -103.6 of Title 70 of the
222	222	Oklahoma Statutes.
223	223	E. The pilot program created in this section shall end no later
224	224	than July 1, 2027.
225	225	F. By November 30, 2027, the State Department of Education
226	226	shall submit a report to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and
227	227	the Speaker of the House of Representatives cont aining an evaluation
228	228	of the results of the pilot program. The report shall include data
229	229	on the number of students who s core above and below seventy percent
230	230	(70%) on the assessment required by subsection C of this section.
231	231	G. The State Board of Education may promulgate rules t o
232	232	implement the provisions of this se ction.
233	233	SECTION 2. This act shall become effe ctive July 1, 2023.
234	234	SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
235	235	of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
236	236	declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect a nd
237	237	be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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