{"id":479,"date":"2013-04-04T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndaspire.org\/?p=479"},"modified":"2013-04-04T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:34:07","slug":"nd-aspire-legislative-action-alert-sb-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/nd-aspire-legislative-action-alert-sb-2032\/","title":{"rendered":"ND ASPIRE Legislative Action Alert: SB 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"Recently, the ND House passed an amended version of Sentate Bill 2032 pertaining to new student performance and accountability measures that must be reported on by the North Dakota University System in its annual performance and accountability measures report to the Legislature.\u00a0 In addition, to reporting on retention and graduation rates for all students, the House added language requiring that the NDUS also report retention and graduations for Pell eligible students, such that comparisons could be made between the Pell eligible and non-Pell eligible student populations.\n\nAccess \u00a0to this data could provide a better basis for making decisions about how to help more of our low-income students succeed. It could also give our programs access to higher quality data for our grants. However, this is not a done deal.\u00a0 Now SB 2032 is on the ND Senate calendar, and the Senate may vote\u00a0 as early as tomorrow, 4\/4 on whether or not to accept\u00a0the amended version of the bill.\u00a0 If\u00a0the Senate does\u00a0not concur with the amendments, then SB 2032 will go to a conference committee composed of some House and Senate members to iron out the details.\n\nHere is the link to the current version of SB 2032: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.nd.gov\/assembly\/63-2013\/documents\/13-0193-05000.pdf?20130403213418\">http:\/\/www.legis.nd.gov\/assembly\/63-2013\/documents\/13-0193-05000.pdf?20130403213418<\/a>\u00a0 You will find the Pell language on page 2.\u00a0 Hearing from their constituents could make a difference\u00a0in the Senate, especially since this is not a very high profile bill in comparison\u00a0to other bills introduced during\u00a0this session.\u00a0 Simple e-mails from\u00a0educators\u00a0asking senators to support SB 2032 as amended by the House because\u00a0it\u00a0could bring more attention to the\u00a0task of helping\u00a0more\u00a0Pell eligible or low-income students succeed in college would carry some weight.\u00a0 The following link will take you to the Senate website which lists the ND Senate e-mail addresses: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.nd.gov\/assembly\/63-2013\/members\/senate\">http:\/\/www.legis.nd.gov\/assembly\/63-2013\/members\/senate<\/a>\n\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, the ND House passed an amended version of Sentate Bill 2032 pertaining to new student performance and accountability measures that must be reported on by the North Dakota University System in its annual performance and accountability measures report to&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}