Bill Text: NC H751 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Career and College Ready/High School Grads
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-04-27 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [H751 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-H751-Introduced.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
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HOUSE BILL DRH40400-MK-47A (01/19)
Short Title: Career and College Ready/High School Grads. |
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Sponsors: |
Representatives Blackwell, Horn, and Johnson (Primary Sponsors). |
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Referred to: |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require all students who receive a high school diploma endorsement to demonstrate a certain level of reading achievement.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C‑12(40) reads as rewritten:
"(40) To Establish High
School Diploma Endorsements. – The State Board of Education shall establish,
implement, and determine the impact of adding (i) college, (ii) career, and
(iii) college and career endorsements to high school diplomas to encourage
students to obtain requisite job skills necessary for that student to be successful
in a wide range of high‑quality careers and to reduce the need for
remedial education in institutions of higher education. These endorsements
shall reflect courses completed, overall grade point average, reading achievement,
and other criteria as developed by the State Board of Education. For the
purposes of awarding any of the high school diploma endorsements, the State
Board shall require students to have received on a nationally norm‑referenced
college admissions test for reading, either administered under G.S. 115C‑174.11(c)(4)
or as an alternative nationally norm‑referenced college admissions test approved
by the State Board, at least the benchmark score established by the testing organization
that represents the level of
achievement required for students to have approximately a fifty percent (50%)
chance of obtaining a grade B or higher or a seventy‑five percent (75%)
chance of obtaining a grade C or higher in a corresponding credit‑bearing
first‑year college course. A student may retake a nationally norm‑referenced
test as many times as necessary to achieve the required benchmark score for
reading in order to receive a high school diploma endorsement prior to the
student's exit from high school. The State
Board of Education shall report annually to the Joint Legislative Education
Oversight Committee on (i) the impact of awarding these endorsements on
high school graduation, college acceptance and remediation, and post‑high
school employment rates.rates, (ii) the number of students who had to
retake a nationally norm‑referenced college admissions test to meet the reading
benchmark score required by this subdivision, and (iii) the number of students who
were not awarded a high school diploma endorsement solely because of the
inability to meet the benchmark score for reading as required by this
subdivision."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with high school diploma endorsements awarded in the 2018‑2019 school year.