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Amend sec. 7, page 11, by deleting lines 25 through 31 and inserting:
“[6.]5. If a pupil fails to pass the high school proficiency examination [administered before the completion of grade 11, he must not be graduated until he is able, through remedial study, to pass the proficiency examination, but he may be given a certificate of attendance, in place of a diploma, if he has reached the age of 17 years.
7.] and the pupil desires to receive an endorsement on his diploma indicating that he passed the high school proficiency examination, the pupil may retake the portion or portions of the reading examination or the portion or portions of the mathematics examination, or both, which the pupil failed. The State Board shall prescribe by regulation the maximum number of times that a pupil may retake the examination, or a portion of the examination, pursuant to this subsection.
6. The State Board shall prescribe standard examinations of”.
Amend sec. 9, page 14, by deleting lines 38 through 40 and inserting:
“(a) Importance of passing the examination, including, without limitation, an explanation that if the pupil fails the examination he is not eligible to receive [a standard high school diploma;] an endorsement on his diploma indicating that he passed the high school proficiency examination;”.
Amend sec. 9, page 15, by deleting lines 3 through 5 and inserting:
“(f) Maximum number of times that a pupil is allowed to take the examination , or a portion of the examination, if he fails to pass the examination , or a portion of the examination, after the first administration [;] to receive an endorsement on his diploma indicating that he passed the examination; and”.
Amend sec. 9, page 15, line 6, by deleting “(g)]” and inserting “(g)”.
Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 11 and 12 and the leadlines of repealed sections and renumbering sec. 13 as sec. 11.
Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:
“AN ACT relating to education; requiring the State Board of Education to prescribe endorsements to the standard high school diploma; removing the requirement that a pupil pass the high school proficiency examination as a condition to receipt of a high school diploma; authorizing a pupil to retake those portions of the high school proficiency examination which he failed in order to receive an endorsement on his diploma indicating that he passed the examination; revising provisions governing the administration of achievement and proficiency examinations to pupils with disabilities and pupils whose primary language is not English; revising provisions governing the reporting of achievement and proficiency examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”.