Mississippi Senate Bill 2249 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on February 3 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Establish A Mississippi Commission On College And Career Readiness To Develop And Recommend New Curriculum And Assessment Standards For The Public Schools Based On National And International Benchmarks; To Provide For The Membership Of The Commission And To Provide That The Commission Shall Be Located Administratively In The Board Of Trustees Of State Institutions Of Higher Learning; To Authorize The State Board Of Education To Consider The New Mississippi College And Career Readiness Standards Recommended By The Commission; To Direct The State Board Of Education To Remove The Common Core Copyright And Any References To The Common Core Standards From The Mississippi College And Career Ready Standards; To Provide For Student Confidentiality; To Amend Section 37-1-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity; And For Related Purposes.

Mississippi Commission on College and Career Readiness; establish to recommend new standards to replace Common Core.

Sen. Gray Tollison [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-03	Senate	Died In Committee
2015-01-16	Senate	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2015/pdf/history/SB/SB2249.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2015/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2249IN.htm