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IV. GENERAL STANDARDS Promotion Standards The state will require mastery of specific competencies in readin g, language, and mathematics before a student is promoted from standards, however, does not guarantee promotion. A student must also meet the state All local school districts must develop their own promotion policies, sub t local standards. Board of Education for information by April 1, 1986, and subsequentl met them to the State The State Board of Education will develop a suggested Y report any changes. boards may use at their discretion. The State Board of Education rwill tat th policy, which local districts developing their own policies, provide them technical assistant suggests that local units consider factors such as teachers' jud ent ' e request a school e. The State Board maturity in designing their policies. ,grades, attendance, and The state standard will not apply to students already retained in the same r 4 -6, 7 -8) or certified as trainable mentally handicapped, grade (K -3, severely /profoundly mentally handicapped or to other deducable mentally handicapped, or students who have been exempted by policy of the local Board of Education l on handicapped the standard is not a reasonable one for the student. The parents of an Aped have the right to contest the exclusion of his /her child from n the basis that procedures set out in G.S. 115c-116. xc exclusion excluded child shall promotion standards under the The promotion standards and minimum competencies which follow are curriculum and courses of instruction listed and described in the Basic Education upon the One of the attributes of an effective curriculum is that it evolves as the non Program. change in order to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world. Therefore, promotion and minimum competencies must also change if they a needs of students curriculum. The State Board of Education will modify n standards of minimum competencies B necessary to be consistent g ey are to continue n reflect the fy state promotion standards and Basic Education Program. sistent with the curriculum described in the The state standard will be implemented in three phases; Phase One. A student in grade 3, 6, or 8 who scores at or above the 25th er battery) in the Annual Testing Program meets the state standard and p Gentile (total local requirements. A student who scores at the 24th percentile, u then meet Two, or below enters ters Phase Phase Two. In Phase Two, a student is tested for mastery of the co below. The State Board of Education will develop the Phase Two test and set scare. Students who do not achieve the mastery score will b competencies listed successfully attend a summer program in which they will have the mastery the competencies specified, a retained, unless they another chance to develop Those who demonstrate mastery will have met state standards and may they have also met local requirements. Y be promoted if Phase Three. The State will fund the costs of teachers and transpor tion summer programs. The same child nutrition program provided during-the regular school Year may be provided students in the remedial summer � needed for the teacher will determine whether, at the end of the summer am Program, principal and the mastered the specified competencies. For handicapped p gram, a student has decision in consultation with the teacher and school-based il committee. ep opal will make the 35