SB 364 – Standards-Based Grading Prohibition & Zell Miller Scholarship Amendments

• Prohibits the use of standards-based grading in grades 4 through 12 in Georgia educational programs (per the bill title; the underlying committee substitute text is not provided)

• An amendment to the bill revises Zell Miller Scholarship eligibility for incoming freshmen by replacing the existing 3.7 GPA and minimum SAT score (1,200) or ACT score (26) requirement with a requirement to graduate in the top 3 percent of the student's graduating class

• Eliminates the separate Zell Miller Scholarship eligibility pathway for high school valedictorians and salutatorians

• Removes the SAT/ACT score requirement for home study program students seeking the Zell Miller Scholarship, while retaining the requirement to earn a cumulative 3.3 GPA after attempting 45 quarter hours or 30 semester hours at an eligible postsecondary institution

• Removes the requirement that continuing students (sophomores, juniors, seniors, or first professional students) must have initially met the freshman eligibility criteria, requiring only a cumulative 3.3 GPA at designated checkpoints