Extend Advanced Placement Incentives Program

Advanced placement incentives pilot program - 3-year extension - reporting of program data - appropriation. The act extends the advanced placement incentives pilot program (pilot program) for 3 years to 2021. The act requires the department of education to report the number of students in the pilot program who enrolled in advanced placement courses during the prior school year and to collect disaggregated data from the advanced placement exam vendor to capture the performance of students who are participating in the pilot program on the end-of-course advanced placement exams.

The act requires the department of education to report to certain committees of the general assembly the information specified in the act, including data relating to the number and amount of financial incentives distributed to each participating school district.

For the 2018-19 fiscal year, the act appropriates $260,937 from the state education fund to the department of education for purposes of the advanced placement incentives pilot program.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)