Bill Text: NJ A5273 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that minimum passing scores on Tests of General Educational Development for receipt of State-issued high school diploma will be minimum scores set by American Council on Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A5273 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A5273-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Provides that minimum passing scores on Tests of General Educational Development for receipt of State-issued high school diploma will be minimum scores set by American Council on Education.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning State-issued high school diplomas and amending P.L.2008, c.25.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.2008, c.25 (C.18A:50A-1) is amended to read as follows:
1. A State-issued high school diploma shall be provided by the New Jersey Department of Education to persons 16 years of age or older and no longer enrolled in school to document the attainment of academic skills and knowledge equivalent to a high school education. Demonstration of the appropriate level of academic competency for receipt of the State-issued high school diploma shall include, but need not be limited to, passage of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) of the American Council on Education. The Statewide standard scores for passage of the GED tests shall be the minimum passing standard set by the council.
(cf: P.L.2008, c.25, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
Under current law, State-issued high school diplomas are provided by the Department of Education to persons 16 years of age or older who are no longer enrolled in school to document the attainment of academic skills and knowledge equivalent to a high school education. Under the law, such persons are able to demonstrate the attainment of the requisite skills and knowledge necessary for receipt of a State-issued high school diploma by passage of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) of the American Council on Education.
Under State Board of Education regulations at N.J.A.C.6A:20-1.4(a)1.i., the minimum passing standard scores for the GED tests set by the American Council on Education are accepted for the issuance of a State high school diploma by resolution of the State board. If these are not adopted, the State board determines the minimum passing scores.
This bill amends current law to provide that the minimum passing standard scores for the GED tests for a State-issued high school diploma will be the scores set by the American Council on Education.
