Assembly Bill A4204

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires the board of regents to submit to the governor and legislature an annual report regarding development, scoring and release of assessment data

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A4204 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยงยง215-d & 215-e, Ed L

2009-A4204 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the board of regents to submit to the governor and legislature an annual report regarding development, scoring and release of assessment data.

2009-A4204 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4204

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. THIELE, BUTLER, FITZPATRICK, TOWNSEND, SALADINO,
  WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  ALFANO,  BACALLES,  BARRA,
  BURLING,  CONTE,  ERRIGO,  FINCH,  GIGLIO,  McDONOUGH, MILLER, O'MARA,
  RAIA, SAYWARD, TEDISCO -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
  Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to annual reporting by
  regents regarding assessments

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds and declares that
educational  assessments,  including  standardized tests, can be a vital
component of ensuring the quality of education of all  students  in  New
York  state.  The  legislature  determines that in order to optimize the
value of such standardized tests students, parents and educators must be
assured that educational assessments used by the state are fair, equita-
ble and valid measures of student achievement within the context of  the
state learning standards.
  The legislature further finds and declares that it is not possible for
school  districts  to  make  programmatic  improvements and assist those
students who fail to achieve competency in the state learning  standards
if school districts do not receive examination results until after a new
school  year  has begun. Accordingly, the legislature finds and declares
that in order to be accurate and meaningful evaluative tools,  standard-
ized  assessment  examinations  must  be  reliably  scored  and the data
released in a timely manner.
  Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to require the board of
regents to identify and compile data regarding the regents' development,
scoring and release of assessment examination data to be included in  an
annual report for submission to the governor and legislature.
  S  2.  The  education  law is amended by adding a new section 215-d to
read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03899-01-9
              

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