3301.0712 Administration of proficiency tests until development of achievement tests.

(A) Notwithstanding sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall continue to prescribe and the department of education and each school district shall continue to administer any proficiency test in accordance with those former sections, as they existed prior to September 11, 2001, until the applicable test is no longer required to be administered as indicated on the chart below. When any achievement test has been developed and made available in accordance with section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, such achievement test shall be administered to students under sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code beginning in the school year indicated on the chart below. School districts shall continue to provide intervention services as required under former division (D) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to September 11, 2001, to students who fail to attain a score in the proficient range on a fourth grade proficiency test.

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(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the state board shall continue to prescribe and school districts and chartered nonpublic schools shall continue to administer ninth grade proficiency tests in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship to students who enter ninth grade prior to July 1, 2003, for as long as those students remain eligible under section 3313.614 of the Revised Code to receive their high school diplomas based on passage of those ninth grade proficiency tests.

Effective Date: 06-09-2004