Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4722, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2001, c. 454, §24 and PL 2003, c. 545, §6, is further amended to read:

3. Satisfactory completion. A diploma may be awarded only to secondary school students who have satisfactorily completed all diploma requirements in accordance with the academic standards of the school administrative unit, and, effective with the class of 2007, with the requirements specified in section 6202-A 6202-B, subsection 3 4 or 5. Career and technical students may, with the approval of the commissioner, satisfy the 2nd-year math and science, the 2nd-year social studies and the fine arts requirements of subsection 2 through separate or integrated study within the career and technical school curriculum.

Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §6202-A, as amended by PL 2003, c. 712, §2, is repealed.

Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §6202-B is enacted to read:

§6202-B.__Local assessment system; core of learning results

Each school administrative unit shall establish a local assessment system to measure student achievement of the core of the learning results established in section 6209. Local assessments may include portfolios, performances and demonstrations in addition to other measures of achievement. Commercially produced assessment tools may be part of a local assessment system but may not carry a majority of the weight in determining student performance.

1.__Definitions.__As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

A.__"Common assessment" means an assessment process in which all students engage.__"Common assessment" includes:

(1)__Assessment tasks with similar scoring tools;

(2)__Similar scoring tools and assessment activities; or

(3)__Similar scoring tools, assessment activities and learning activities.

B.__"Core of the learning results" means math, reading and writing.