Bill Text - SB441 (2018)

(New Title) relative to grading policies in schools.


Revision: Dec. 20, 2017, 12:14 p.m.

SB 441  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2803

06/04

 

SENATE BILL 441

 

AN ACT relative to final grades in schools.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 4; Rep. Grenier, Sull. 7

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that the state board of education shall require school districts to adopt a policy that a student's grade, as determined by his or her teacher, is final.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2803

06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to final grades in schools.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; State Board of Education; Duties.  Amend RSA 186:11 by inserting after paragraph XXXVII the following new paragraph:

XXXVIII.  Grades.  Require school districts to adopt a policy requiring that the grade awarded to a student by a teacher, in the absence of clerical or mechanical mistake, fraud, bad faith, or incompetence, is final.

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