Alternate Assessments for Students with Disabilities

State Alternate Assessment Policies

This page includes links to state policies for Alternate Assessment based on Alternate Achievement Standards (AA-AAS), Alternate Assessments based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS), and Alternate Assessments based on Grade-level Achievement Standards (AA-GLAS).

These links may not reflect changes on state Web sites after 05/16/2013.

If you can't find the information you are looking for from the listing below, you may look in the State's education agency Web site. Links to each state's education agency can be found at the Council of Chief State School Officers.

AA-AAS (Alternate Assessments based on Alternate Achievement Standards)	AA-MAS (Alternate Assessments based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards)	AA-GLAS (Alternate Assessments based on Grade-level Academic Achievement Standards)
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