Today, the Senate EL & K12 committee held executive session on two of the WASL bills.
SB 5414 – Implementing the WASL work group recommendations passed to Rules. There were 3 amendments which they took pretty quickly, so I missed some of it. However, the substitute did pass and will move forward to Rules. We will get more information soon on these amendments.
SB 5260 – Motivating students with incentives by eliminating statewide assessments as a high graduation requirement. There is now a substitute version of this bill that retains ONLY the incentives study. It drops all language and provisions pertaining to eliminating the WASL as a graduation requirement. It was a VERY close vote, but the substitute version also passed to Rules.
We are tracking these bills closely and will have more on this soon
