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| 5 | 4 | | HOUSE BILL 90 |
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| 6 | 5 | | By Haston |
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| 8 | 7 | | |
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| 9 | 8 | | HB0090 |
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| 10 | 9 | | 001109 |
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| 11 | 10 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 12 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, |
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| 14 | 13 | | relative to accountability. |
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| 16 | 15 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 17 | 16 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-1-228(a), is amended by deleting |
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| 18 | 17 | | subdivision (3) and substituting instead the following: |
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| 19 | 18 | | (3) Other outcome indicators of student achievement that the department finds |
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| 20 | 19 | | to be reliable measures of school performance. If the department uses student |
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| 21 | 20 | | performance on a postsecondary readiness assessment, such as the ACT or SAT, as an |
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| 22 | 21 | | indicator of student achievement for purposes of this subdivision (a)(3), then: |
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| 23 | 22 | | (A) The department shall also use student performance on the career |
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| 24 | 23 | | readiness assessments described in ยง 49-6-6001(b)(4) as an indicator of student |
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| 25 | 24 | | achievement for purposes of this subdivision (a)(3); and |
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| 26 | 25 | | (B) If a student is administered a postsecondary readiness assessment |
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| 27 | 26 | | and a career readiness assessment, then the department shall only consider |
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| 28 | 27 | | student performance on the assessment for which the student achieved the |
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| 29 | 28 | | highest score for purposes of assigning a school letter grade. |
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| 30 | 29 | | SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it, and |
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| 31 | 30 | | applies to school grades issued for the 2025-2026 school year and subsequent school years. |
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