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AL SB269
Bill
Status
3/5/2020
Primary Sponsor
Thomas Whatley
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AI Summary
SB269 Summary
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Deletes the requirement that third grade students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills must not be promoted to fourth grade, effective with the 2021-2022 school year.
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Removes all references to "good cause exemptions" that previously allowed students with reading deficiencies to be promoted despite failing to meet reading proficiency standards.
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Amends Section 16-6G-5 of the Alabama Literacy Act (Act 2019-523) to eliminate promotion restrictions while maintaining other reading intervention requirements for K-3 students.
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Becomes effective seven calendar days after passage and gubernatorial approval.
Legislative Description
Education, K-3 grades, Alabama Literacy Act, provisions against promoting students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills, deleted, references to good cause exemptions, deleted, Act 2019-523, 2019 Reg. Sess., am'd; Sec. 16-6G-5 am'd.
Education
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy
3/5/2020