Bill Text: IL SR0994 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the General Assembly to accelerate the improved outcomes for low-income, Latino, and African-American students by increasing this State's commitment to student access and success on Advanced Placement exams.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SR0994 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SR0994-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Advanced Placement (AP) exams measure a student's | ||||||
| 3 | content mastery of college-level studies in specific academic | ||||||
| 4 | disciplines; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, A total of 43,835 graduates took at least one AP | ||||||
| 6 | exam during high school in 2013, more than double the 20,968 | ||||||
| 7 | students who took the test in 2003; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Low-income students comprised 29.3% of graduates | ||||||
| 9 | who took AP exams in 2013, compared to only 19% in 2008 and | ||||||
| 10 | 12.1% in 2003; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The number of low-income graduates scoring a 3 or | ||||||
| 12 | higher nearly tripled in the last 5 years, from 1,969 or 9.7% | ||||||
| 13 | in 2008 to 5,758 or 19.8% in 2013; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, This State was able to remove the equity gap for | ||||||
| 15 | Latino participation in AP exams in 2013; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, There has been tremendous improvement in AP exam | ||||||
| 17 | success over the past decade for traditionally | ||||||
| 18 | underrepresented groups in this State, but there remain | ||||||
| 19 | significant gaps in student access and success; therefore, be | ||||||
| 20 | it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 2 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the General | ||||||
| 3 | Assembly to accelerate these improved outcomes for low-income, | ||||||
| 4 | Latino, and African-American students by increasing this | ||||||
| 5 | State's commitment to student access and success on Advanced | ||||||
| 6 | Placement exams.
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