HF 43: Relating to subject and performance-based assessments administered prior to a student’s completion of a practitioner preparation program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

What it does

This bill strikes a requirement that postsecondary institutions with an approved practitioner preparation program administer a subject or performance-based assessment to a student prior to the student’s completion of the program, and concomitantly strikes the requirement that a student achieve a score above the 25th percentile nationally on the assessment in order to successfully complete the program. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to July 1, 2012, for individuals who completed the practitioner preparation program course requirements but failed to achieve the assessment scores necessary to successfully complete the program.

House subcommittee · named January 24, 2019

• Rep. Tom Moore (R) · tom.moore@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Lindsay James (D) · lindsay.james@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 1 against

For: Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

Against: Iowa State Education Association

In plain words

1. January 22, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. January 24, 2019House subcommittee named: Moore, T., James and Salmon