Modifying certain educational expectations for high school graduation; authorizing school districts and charter schools to elect to participate in the educational planning and assessment system program offered by ACT, inc. to provide a longitudinal systematic approach to student educational and career planning, assessment, instructional support and evaluation, requiring the commissioner to provide certain ACT tests for students in certain grades; modifying certain provisions relating to advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs, authorizing the commissioner to pay for out of state travel costs for teachers participating in training programs and requiring payment for examination fees for public and nonpublic students from low income families and to the limit of the available appropriation for a portion or all of the examination fees for other public and nonpublic students, providing for teacher stipends and for the award of college credit to certain high school students; providing for the use of the college level examination program offered by the college board for the receipt of college credit or advanced standing, authorizing reimbursement for examination fees; modifying certain statewide testing and reporting system provisions, changing the test requirement for students in grade 8; requiring the commissioner of education to adopt rules before a certain date to implement the Minnesota comprehensive assessments second edition (MCA-IIs) in reading, mathematics and writing; appropriating money to the commissioner for the EPAS and CLEP programs
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