HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2355        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 429

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relating to MCAS Tutoring..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

     Any high School student with at least a 3.0 average in the student’s senior year shall, with the consent of the school’s principal and a recommendation of a teacher, be allowed to commit three hours a week to tutoring student in preparation for the MCAS tests, and upon completion of tutoring service for one year, be entitled to a tuition credit of $500.00, if the student matriculates to a public state college or university. 

      The funds for tuition credit shall come from appropriations for MCAS tutors and shall be contingent upon their availability.