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SB 1048: community colleges; admissions criteria

PRIME SPONSOR: Senator Carter, LD 15

BILL STATUS: House Engrossed

                               

 

Overview

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☒ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteChanges certain requirements for an Arizona community college to grant admission to any student under 18 years of age and contains an emergency clause.

History

For a student under the age of 18 to be admitted into an Arizona community college, the student must have completed all course prerequisites and must have achieved one of the following:

·         graduated from a private or public high school, or has a high school certificate of the same equivalence; 

·         completed a designated college placement test that tests if the student is at the appropriate college level; or

·         received, at minimum, a composite score of either:

o   93 on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT);

o   930 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT); or

o   22 on the American College Test (ACT) (A.R.S. § 15-1805.01(B)).

Students who are homeschooled and under 18 years old are exempt from the outlined requirements for admission to an Arizona community college (A.R.S. § 15-1805.01(C)). Furthermore, students who enroll in vocational courses can be admitted on an individual basis if the student meets the requirements for the enrolled college courses and the community college determines that the student's admission is in the best interest of the student (A.R.S. § 15-1805.01(D)).

Provisions

1.       Changes the minimum composite test scores of the following tests that a student under 18 years of age is required to achieve for admissions into an Arizona community college:

a.       720 for the PSAT;

b.       720 for the SAT; or

c.        12 for the ACT (Sec. 1).

2.       Allows an Arizona community college to designate a college placement method, rather than a college placement test, for purposes of indicating if a student under 18 years old is at the appropriate college level (Sec. 1).

3.       Replaces the specific name of each college placement test with its corresponding acronym (Sec. 1).

4.       Contains an emergency clause (Sec. 2).

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8.       Fifty-fourth Legislature                       SB 1048

9.       First Regular Session                            Version 3: House Engrossed

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