College and job aptitude tests-state payment.

WORKING DRAFT

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ENROLLED ACT NO. 59, SENATE

FIFTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2006 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to education; providing for administration of curriculum based achievement college entrance examinations and jobs skills assessment tests throughout the state; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
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Section 1.

W.S. 21
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202(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxx) and 21
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110(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxix) are amended to read:

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202.

Duties of the state superintendent.

(a)

In addition to any other duties assigned by law, the state superintendent shall:

(xxx)

Effective school year 2006-2007 and each school year thereafter, in consultation and coordination with local school districts, by rule and regulation establish a program of administering a standardized, curriculum based, achievement college entrance examination and a job skills assessment test selected by the state superintendent to all students in the eleventh grade throughout the state as provided in W.S. 21
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110(a)(xxix)
, except that any student with an individual education plan may be excused from taking either the college entrance examination or the job skills test if the parent or guardian of the student submits a request for the excusal to the appropriate
local school district
authority
. The examination and test
selected by the state superintendent, shall be administered throughout the
United States
and shall be relied upon by institutions of higher education. The college entrance examination shall at a minimum test in the areas of reading, writing and mathematics. The jobs skills assessment test shall at a minimum test in the areas of
applied math, reading for information and locating information. The
state superintendent shall pay all costs associated with administering the college entrance examination and the jobs skills assessment test and shall schedule a day during which both examinations shall be provided to and one (1) shall be administered to all eleventh grade students throughout the state. The date shall be selected so that following receipt of scores, students may timely register for senior year classes which may be necessary to allow the student to qualify for a state provided scholarship. The state superintendent may enter into agreements with an administrator of the college entrance examination and an administrator of the jobs skills assessment test and adopt rules as necessary to ensure compliance with any requirements of an administrator, such as a secure environment.

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110.

Duties of boards of trustees.

(a)

The board of trustees in each school district shall:

(xxix)

Beginning in the spring semester 2007, and each spring semester thereafter, administer a program where all students enrolled in the eleventh grade in the district shall be required to take, on a date specified by the state superintendent, either a standardized, curriculum based, achievement college entrance examination or a jobs skills assessment test in accordance with W.S. 21
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202(a)(xxx). Each school district shall provide the opportunity for all home school and private school students in the eleventh grade and residing within the district to take either the examination or the jobs skills assessment test one (1) time at no cost to the student on the same date the examination and test are administered to all eleventh grade public school students in the state. The results of the examination or jobs skills assessment test taken shall be included in each student's transcript.

Section 2.

There is appropriated six hundred two thousand eight hundred dollars ($602,800.00) for the fiscal biennium, commencing July 1, 200
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from the school foundation program account to the state superintendent of public instruction for purposes of this act to ensure each Wyoming eleventh grade student is provided an opportunity to take a curriculum based achievement college entrance examination or a jobs skills assessment test at no cost. The state superintendent shall enter into agreements with an administrator of the selected college entrance examination and with an administrator of the selected jobs skills assessment test to ensure each
Wyoming
eleventh grade student is provided the opportunity to take either one (1) examination or one (1) test at no cost.

Section 3.

This act is effective July 1, 2006.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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