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TN SB 636

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Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a request to the United States department of education to amend this state's Every Student Succeeds Act plan to remove all end-of-course assessment requirements for students in grades nine through 12 and to allow the ACT, SAT, or another postsecondary readiness assessment approved by the commissioner to be annually administered to students in such grades and for student performance on such assessments to be used for student, school, and district accountability purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Tennessee · 114S1 · upper

Introduced
2025-02-10
Status date
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Latest action
2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Walleyprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-31

    Filed for introduction

    filing

  2. 2025-02-04

    Sponsor(s) Added.

    sponsorship

  3. 2025-02-10

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

    introduction

  4. 2025-02-12

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-12

    Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 3/19/2025

  6. 2025-03-19

    Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 3/26/2025

  7. 2025-03-19

    Action deferred in Senate Education Committee to 3/26/2025

  8. 2025-03-26

    Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

    referral-committee

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Official source

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=SB0636&ga=114

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