SB269 Alabama 2020 Session

Updated Mar 5, 2020

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tom Whatley
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2020
Title: Education, K-3 grades, Alabama Literacy Act, provisions against promoting students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills, deleted, references to good cause exemptions, deleted, Act 2019-523, 2019 Reg. Sess., am'd; Sec. 16-6G-5 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, the Alabama Literacy Act, commencing with the 2021-2022 school year, third grade students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills will not be promoted to fourth grade, unless a good cause exemption is granted.
This bill would delete the provisions against promoting students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills to the fourth grade and would delete all references to good cause exemptions.

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy