Bill Text: NJ A311 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires public schools to weight courses in visual and performing arts equally with other courses worth same number of credits in calculating grade point average.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Passed) 2016-01-19 - Approved P.L.2015, c.262. [A311 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A311-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 311

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JON M. BRAMNICK

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

Assemblyman  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public schools to weight courses in visual and performing arts equally with other courses worth same number of credits in calculating grade point average.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Education Committee on October 9, 2014, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning the calculation of pupil grade point averages and supplementing chapter 35 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    ¹a.¹ A school district shall weight courses in the visual and performing arts equally with other courses ¹of the same level of academic rigor and¹ worth the same number of credits in calculating a pupil's grade point average ¹[; except that advanced placement courses offered by the district shall be exempt from this requirement]¹.

     ¹b.   As used in this section, "academic rigor" means a course's classification as a general education course, an honors course, or an advanced placement course.¹

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the 2015-2016 school year.