Assembly Bill A10058

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency

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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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2015-A10058 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7461
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A3101, S2279
2019-2020: A7166
2021-2022: A1049

2015-A10058 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency.

2015-A10058 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10058

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 9, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BRINDISI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to creating a committee
  to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and  ways  to
  increase the test's transparency

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

  Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 55 to read as follows:
  55. A. THE BOARD OF REGENTS IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH  A
COMMITTEE TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP WAYS TO REDUCE THE LENGTH OF STANDARD-
IZED  TESTS ADMINISTERED TO STUDENTS BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN AND THE EIGHTH
GRADE AND WAYS TO INCREASE THE TEST'S TRANSPARENCY. THE COMMITTEE  SHALL
REVIEW  HOW  THE  TEST'S  TRANSPARENCY  WOULD  IMPACT STUDENTS' PRIVACY,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (I) WHAT DATA IS  BEING  COLLECTED;  (II)
HOW  THE DATA IS BEING COLLECTED; (III) WHO IS COLLECTING THE DATA; (IV)
WHERE IS THE DATA BEING STORED; AND (V) WHY THE DATA IS BEING USED.
  B. ALONG WITH ANY RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE  COMMITTEE,  THE  SUBSE-
QUENT  CRITERIA  SHALL  BE  FOLLOWED  BY  THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
AND/OR SCHOOL DISTRICTS:
  (1) ANY STANDARDIZED TEST ADMINISTERED TO STUDENTS BETWEEN  KINDERGAR-
TEN  AND  EIGHTH  GRADE SHALL BE RELEASED PUBLICLY ON THE NEW YORK STATE
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE WITHIN  TEN  DAYS  OF  THE  SCORES  BEING
RELEASED;
  (2)  THE  RELEASE  OF  TEST  SCORES SHALL OCCUR WITHIN TEN DAYS OF THE
TESTS BEING GRADED; AND
  (3) PARENTS SHALL BE NOTIFIED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF ANY  DISTRICT-WIDE
STANDARDIZED  TEST  PLANNED  TO  BE  ADMINISTERED, ALONG WITH THE TEST'S
MAKE-UP DATES. THIS INCLUDES ANY  OPERATIONAL  TEST  AS  WELL  AS  FIELD
TESTS.
  B. THE COMMITTEE SHALL BE MADE UP ENTIRELY OF NEW YORK STATE CERTIFIED
EDUCATORS WHO RESIDE IN THIS STATE.
  C.  THE  COMMITTEE SHALL CREATE A PROPOSAL AND PRESENT IT TO THE BOARD
OF REGENTS WITHIN A YEAR OF THE COMMITTEE'S CREATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the twentieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.

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