AZ HB2210

Establishes a one-year pilot program for the 2017-2018 school year allowing school districts and charter schools to administer nationally recognized college-readiness examinations to all 11th-grade students as an alternative to state assessments.

Participating schools must use monies otherwise appropriated for grade 11 state assessments to fund the college-readiness examinations, which must include tests in English, reading, mathematics, and science.

Schools already receiving designated monies for college-readiness examinations in 2017-2018 are ineligible to participate in the pilot program.

Department of Education must submit a report on or after November 30, 2018 to the Governor, President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House summarizing pilot program results.

The pilot program section automatically repeals December 31, 2018, and the legislature intends for all schools to be eligible to select and administer nationally recognized college-readiness examinations starting in the 2018-2019 school year.