New Academic Standards in Senate Bill 1
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Take this quiz on Senate Bill 1:
Question: Your school has been in academic emergency for 3 years. What can your district do?
A. Fire the principal (That would be you.)
B. Replace the teachers
C. Allow the students to transfer to other schools
D. All of the above
Is “D” your final answer? If so, you may not be a millionaire, but you’ve caught the drift of Senate Bill 1.
Here’s what S.B.1 is dishing up:
Fourth-Grade “Guarantee”: Gone.
Fourth-Grade Proficiency Test Line-up: Reading would be tested at third grade, writing and math at fourth grade, science and social studies at fifth grade.
Sixth-Grade Proficiency Test: Not exactly gone, but repositioned. Reading, writing, and math achievement tests would be given at seventh grade, with science and social studies at eighth grade.
Ninth-Grade Graduation Test: Gone, now back. Academic standards overhaul puts the 10th-grade achievement tests on hold for 2 years. Current eighth graders will have to take the old test, starting this summer.
Twelfth-Grade Proficiency Test: Gone.
Academic Standards Statewide: State Board of Education must adopt K-12 standards in reading, writing, and math by December 31, 2001. Science and social studies standards are due December 31, 2002.
What about School Funding?
That will be for the Ohio Supreme Court to decide, but I’m guessing that S.B. 1 may not have the final answer. Read more >
(Source: Columbus Dispatch, May 25, 2001 and June 1, 2001)
