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title: Floor Amend 1 AM 61 0026 to SB 445
collection: amendment
id: amendment:2025-2026/sb445/245247
cite_as: SB 445, Floor Amend 1 AM 61 0026
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date: 2026-09-25
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version: Floor Amend 1 AM 61 0026
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# Floor Amend 1 AM 61 0026 to SB 445

LOST
Senators Kemp of the 38th and Jones II of the 22nd offered the following amendment #1:
Amend the Senate Committee on Education and Youth substitute to SB 445 (LC 61 0448S)
by inserting after "authority;" on line 15 the following:
to establish accountability measures for private schools participating in the promise
scholarship program; to require the education savings authority to establish an academic
performance standard for participating schools; to require the education savings authority to
conduct annual eligibility reviews of participating schools; to require the education savings
authority to take certain measures if a participating school is no longer eligible to enroll
participating students or fails to meet the academic performance standard;
By replacing "and" at the end of line 290 with <del>"and".
</del> By replacing line 292 with the following:
misuse of account funds;
<ins>(4)(A) Not later than December 31, 2026, and in coordination with the Office of
Student Achievement, establish an academic performance standard for participating
schools to ensure that not less than half of the participating students enrolled in a
participating school are performing at or above grade level or are demonstrating growth
in student achievement. Such academic performance standard and the reviews
conducted pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph shall take into consideration:
(i) Student performance on the assessments or tests provided for in Code Section
20-2B-27;
(ii) Student performance on assessments administered pursuant to Code Section
20-2-281 in the year prior to such student enrolling in a participating school; and
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<ins>(iii) The length of time a student has been enrolled in the participating school.
(B) Not later than December 31, 2026, and by December 31 each year thereafter,
conduct reviews to ensure that each participating school meets the performance
standard established pursuant to this paragraph. In the event that the education savings
authority determines during such review that a participating school does not meet the
performance standard, the education savings authority shall:
(i) After the first such finding, require such participating school to implement a plan
to improve student performance;
(ii) After the second such finding, require such participating school to implement a
plan to remedy the failure to meet the performance standard, require such
participating school to submit regular reports of participating student performance,
and implement a probationary period;
(iii) After the third such finding, limit the number of participating students allowed
to enroll in such participating school for the first time to not more than half of the
number of participating students that enrolled for the first time in such participating
school in the previous school year; and
(iv) After the fourth such finding, prohibit the participating school from enrolling
new participating students for a period of three years, after which the participating
school may reapply to participate in the program; and
(5) Not later than December 31, 2026, and by December 31 each year thereafter, conduct
annual reviews to ensure that each participating school remains eligible to enroll
participating students."
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