The House Education Committee agreed Tuesday to legislation requiring North
Carolina's roughly 100,000 11th graders to take for free the ACT national
college entrance exam starting next school year if state funds — possibly several million dollars — are available.
Students also would take ACT pretests in eighth and 10th grades to help determine if they are on track to be prepared to attend a university or community college. The results would be used by teachers to diagnose shortcomings in student performance in areas such as English, reading,
science and math.
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