SF 2085 (LSB 5542XS (2) 87)

SENATE FILE 2085

BY  CHELGREN

A BILL FOR

An Act requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to issue high school credit for satisfactory completion of high school-level units of instruction. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  The rules establishing high school graduation requirements shall authorize a school district or accredited nonpublic school to consider provide that any student, at any grade level, who satisfactorily completes a high school-level unit of instruction has satisfactorily completed a unit of the high school graduation requirements for that area of instruction, and shall authorize the school district or accredited nonpublic school to of enrollment shall issue high school credit for the unit to the student.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that under the state board of education’s rules establishing high school graduation requirements, any student at any grade level who satisfactorily completes a high school-level unit of instruction has satisfactorily completed a unit of the high school graduation requirements for that area of instruction, and the board’s rules shall require the school district or accredited nonpublic school of enrollment to issue high school credit to the student.