SENATE DOCKET, NO. 25        FILED ON: 1/10/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 291

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to high school graduation requirements..

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

SECTION 1. The second sentence of clause (i) of the fourth paragraph of Section 1D of chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “graduation” the following words:- “, except that revised competency determinations coordinated to state frameworks and related and/or rescheduled assessment methods defined under an individual education plan within the context of section 3 of chapter 71B, and fulfilled by a student with special needs who also scores two or more years below grade level on a standardized reading test in grade 9 or above and who has failed to pass a grade 10 standard competency test at least once, can also determine eligibility for high school graduation.”