High school graduation requirements; certain substitutions.
Summary
Board of Education; high school graduation requirements; certain substitutions. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to provide for the substitutionof computer coding course credit for any foreign language coursecredit required to graduate with a standard or advanced diploma forchildren with disabilities. Such requirement replaces a narrowerprovision in current law that requires the Board to permit a studentwho is pursuing an advanced diploma and whose individualized educationprogram specifies a credit accommodation for world language to substitutetwo standard units of credit in computer science for two standardunits of credit in a world language.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2021
Last action Feb 5, 2021
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 14, 2021
Committee
Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101837D
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Glenn R. Davis
RRepublican
Co
Bill Stanley
RRepublican
Co
Danny Marshall
RRepublican
Co
Mark L. Cole
RRepublican
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