Georgia Legislature: School testing, high school top honors for the dual-enrolled bills merged

Bills merged Tuesday passed the House and now must pass the Senate Thursday, the final day of the legislation session
File photo/BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

File photo/BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

The Georgia House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a Senate measure that attempts to improve the usefulness of tests required in public schools.

Senate Bill 211 was amended with a House bill that ensures that students who are dual-enrolled in high school and college will be in the running to be valedictorian or salutatorian, even if they don't physically attend the high school.

Because SB 211 now contains a rider with the language in House Bill 114, the package must return to the Senate for final approval on Thursday, the last day of this year's legislative session.

>>Read more about SB 211 here and here and here.

>>Read more about HB 114 here.