AZ SB1155

School districts and charter schools may opt out of competency requirements or assessments based on Common Core standards, College and Career Ready Standards, or standards aligned with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).

The opt-out authority applies to both elementary grade promotion requirements (Section 15-701) and high school graduation requirements (Section 15-701.01).

Charter schools are given the same authority as school districts to prescribe course of study and competency requirements with the ability to opt out of specified standards-based assessments.

The bill amends existing statutes to add language explicitly allowing governing boards or governing bodies to decline to use standards or assessments aligned with PARCC or similar frameworks while maintaining other academic requirements.