Bill Text - SB349 (2018)

Relative to course requirements in a career and technical education program.


Revision: Dec. 12, 2017, 12:55 p.m.

SB 349  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2729

06/04

 

SENATE BILL 349

 

AN ACT relative to course requirements in a career and technical education program.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 4; Rep. Heath, Hills. 14; Rep. Grenier, Sull. 7

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds a career and technical education program to the non-mathematics content area courses a student may take to fulfill the competency in mathematics requirement.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2729

06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to course requirements in a career and technical education program.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  State Board of Education; Rulemaking; Competency in Mathematics.  Amend RSA 186:8, VIII to read as follows:

VIII.  Requiring a high school pupil to attain competency in mathematics for each year in which he or she is in high school through graduation to ensure career and college readiness.  A pupil may meet this requirement either by satisfactorily completing a minimum of 4 courses in mathematics or by satisfactorily completing a minimum of 3 mathematics courses and one non-mathematics content area course, including, but not limited to, a CTE program under RSA 188-E, in which mathematics knowledge and skills are embedded and applied, as may be approved by the school board.  The rules shall be implemented in the 2015-16 school year.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.