Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary Subject to exceptions for home school students who are enrolled in a church school, present law requires a parent-teacher conducting a home school to comply with administration by the commissioner of education, or by a professional testing service that is approved by the LEA, to home school students of the same state board approved secure standardized tests required of public school students in grades five, seven, and nine. This bill instead requires a parent-teacher conducting a home school to ensure that if the parent-teacher's student is in any of the grades five, seven, or nine, that the student is administered: (1) A standardized test selected by the parent-teacher that provides nationally normed analytics in the subjects of English language arts and mathematics, that is proctored by an individual who is not related to the student, and that is recorded by the developer of the nationally normed examination, at the expense of the parent-teacher; or (2) The same state board-approved standardized tests required of public school students in the same grade as the parent-teacher's student that is administered by the commissioner of education, or by a professional testing service approved by the LEA. Present law also requires a parent-teacher conducting a home school to comply with consultation between the director of schools and the parent-teacher if the home school student falls three to six months behind the home school student's appropriate grade level, based on the test required in (1) or (2) above. If a home school student falls six to nine months behind the home school student's appropriate grade level in the home school student's reading, language arts, mathematics, or science test scores or such of these areas as are actually tested for the student's grade level, ba
