August 15 Special Board Meeting Highlights
Highlights from the August 15, 2016 State Board of Education meeting at ESD 113 in Tumwater are below. You can review all meeting and additional materials online.

SBE established graduation scores for the following high school assessment alternatives:
  • Math and English Language Arts (ELA) Collections of Evidence
  • Math and ELA SAT
  • ELA ACT
It is important to note that today's adopted score requirements represent primarily technical changes to existing requirements. These are not additional requirements for high school graduation, nor do they materially increase or decrease the level of difficulty in the existing requirements. 
 
The following table summarizes the rationale for establishing new scores and the adopted scores.

Assessment
Rationale for New Graduation Scores
Scores
Math and ELA Collections of Evidence
The first implementation of Collections of Evidence assessments aligned to new math and ELA (English Language Arts) learning standards.
ELA: 24
Math: 14
SAT Math and ELA
Graduation scores in math and ELA for the new SAT test as an alternative graduation assessment.
ELA: 410
Math: 430
ACT ELA
Graduation score for comprehensive ELA (replacing reading and writing) on the ACT as an alternative graduation assessment.
ELA: 14
 
The Board also discussed the graduation score for the high school math Smarter Balanced assessment. No action was taken on this topic.

NEXT BOARD MEETING
September 13-15, 2016, the annual retreat in Stevenson. 
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