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SB 455 – This act modifies the duties prescribed to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. The Coordinating Board will require all public two-year and four-year higher education institutions to replicate best practices in remediation, as described in the act. The Coordinating Board will also require all public two-year and four-year higher education institutions, by July 1, 2014, to create a statewide core transfer library of at least twenty-five lower division courses across all institutions that are transferable among all public higher education institutions. The Coordinating Board must develop a policy to foster reverse transfer for students who have accumulated enough hours in combination with public higher education institution in Missouri that offers an associate degree and four-year institutions to be awarded an associate degree. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must maintain the alignment of the statewide assessments for entry-level courses in English, mathematics, foreign language, sciences, and social sciences associated with an institution's general education core with the existing competencies. The Coordinating Board may charge and collect fees from out-of-state public institutions to cover the costs of reviewing and assuring the quality of programs offered by out-of-state public institutions. The annual report that the Coordinating Board submits prior to the start of the legislative session must include campus-level progression, retention, and completion metrics consistent with performance-funding goals. It must also contain a description of progress implementing revised remediation, transfer, and retention practices. MICHAEL RUFF
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