Bill Text: MA H4646 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: Allow nonpublic school students to take the MCAS exam

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-06 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the House Committee On Ways and Means [H4646 Detail]

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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By Ms. Walz of Boston, for the committee on Education, on House, No. 473, a Bill allowing non-public school students to take the MCAS exam (House, No. 4646 ). May 5, 2010.

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FOR THE COMMITTEE:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Martha M. Walz

8th Suffolk


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 

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In the Year Two Thousand and Ten

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An Act allowing non-public school students to take the MCAS exam.


 

              Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

              The department of elementary and secondary education shall issue a report on the feasibility and costs associated with  non-public school students and home schooled students in grade 10 voluntarily taking the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam; provided further, that said report shall be provided to the secretary of administration and finance, the commissioner of elementary and secondary education, and the clerks of the senate and house of representatives who shall forward the same to the chair of the senate ways and means committee, the chair of the house ways and means committee, and  the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on education on or before June 1, 2011.

 

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