Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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An act to be known and cited as the "trauma-informed student assessment exemption act"; To recognize the adverse academic impact of grief, trauma and loss on students required to participate in high-stakes testing; To authorize temporary exemptions from participation in high-stakes assessments for students experiencing qualifying trauma-or-loss events; To ensure that such exemptions do not negatively affect student promotion, graduation eligibility, scholarship or financial aid consideration or access to advanced or specialized academic programs; To exclude exempted students from state and federal accountability metrics during the exemption period and authorize the use of alternative measures of student progress; To establish procedures for requesting, reviewing, approving or denying exemptions in a manner that is timely, equitable, minimally burdensome and trauma-sensitive; To require written notice of exemption determinations and the safeguarding of student privacy; To prohibit the imposition of accountability penalties on schools or districts for honoring approved exemptions; To require the state department of education to issue guidance and provide professional development on trauma-responsive assessment practices; To mandate annual reporting to the legislature on exemption usage and impact without disclosure of personally identifiable student information; And for related purposes.
