SCH CD-STATE ASSESSMENTS

Amends the School Code. In provisions prohibiting students who do not take the State's final accountability assessment or its approved alternate assessment from receiving a regular high school diploma, exempts a high school student from taking the assessment if: (1) the assessment is administered during the pendency of a disaster proclamation issued by the Governor as a result of a public health emergency or epidemic; (2) the student resides in a county that is subject to the gubernatorial disaster proclamation; (3) the student's high school has implemented remote learning or blended remote learning procedures as a result of the public health emergency or epidemic; and (4) the parent or guardian of the student certifies to the high school that the student is immunocompromised, resides with an individual who is immunocompromised, or is a caretaker for an individual who is immunocompromised. Effective immediately.