2003 Senate Bill 787 ↩

Senate Roll Call 539: Passed

To exempt schools whose student MEAP test answer sheets were lost by the Department of Treasury, or by its assessment contractor from the state school accreditation requirements for the year. In 2003, several thousand answer sheets from a number of schools were lost. State accreditation standards are based in part on MEAP test results. A school would qualify for the exemption regardless of how few of its answer sheets had been lost. However, a school or school district would not be exempt from a determination that it had not achieved adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.