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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D">Cindy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cynthia Brown, Ed.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Director, Student Preparation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Melissa White [mailto:Melissa.White@SDE.OK.GOV]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> COUNSELORS@LISTSERV.SDE.OK.GOV<br>
<b>Subject:</b> IMPORTANT UPDATES TO ACE<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">There were two important updates to ACE at the last Board Meeting.
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</span></span><![endif]>In order to use the PLAN score as an alternate EOI, it must be administered during the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education testing window to ensure testing validity. If you already administered the assessment after the testing window
this year, then you can use the scores up until the Board ruled otherwise. 12/20/12.
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</span></span><![endif]>The Algebra II End of Course Project can count for an alternate for Algebra I and the English III End of Course Project can count for an alternate for English II.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Please let me know if you have any questions.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#1F497D">Executive Director of Counseling/ACE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/Raise_the_Grade_Booklet.pdf"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="340" height="98" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01CDE8E2.6CD39170" alt="Description: Description: cid:image001.png@01CD966D.0AC47020"></span></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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more information about Raise the Grade Together, click here.</span></a></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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