Assembly Bill A7460

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to readability standards for state administered standardized English language arts or mathematics assessments

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  • Introduced
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    • 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-A7460 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง319, Ed L

2015-A7460 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that readability standards for state administered standardized English language arts or mathematics assessments shall be presented at a readability level that is grade-level appropriate; requires the commissioner of SED to review assessments to ensure materials presented are grade-level appropriate.

2015-A7460 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7460

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FAHY, McDONALD, BICHOTTE, GUNTHER, KAMINSKY,
  BARRETT,  STIRPE,  KIM,  LIFTON,  SIMON,  MOSLEY,  BUCHWALD,  SKOUFIS,
  JAFFEE,  GOTTFRIED,  COLTON,  RAIA, STEC, BRINDISI, LUPINACCI, DUPREY,
  CUSICK, COOK, ZEBROWSKI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  MAGEE  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to readability standards
  for standardized assessments

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

  Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 319 to
read as follows:
  S  319.  READABILITY  STANDARDS  FOR STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENTS.   STATE
ADMINISTERED STANDARDIZED ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS OR  MATHEMATICS  ASSESS-
MENTS FOR GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT SHALL BE PRESENTED AT A READABILITY
LEVEL THAT IS GRADE-LEVEL APPROPRIATE.
  S  2. In order to implement the provisions of section one of this act,
the commissioner of education shall:
  (1) no later than September 1, 2016  complete  an  initial  review  of
state  administered  standardized  English  language arts or mathematics
assessments for grades three through eight to review the readability  of
such  assessments prior to the administration of such assessments. If it
is determined from the initial  review  that  the  assessments  are  not
grade-level  appropriate, the education department shall make the neces-
sary changes to such assessments to ensure that they are presented at  a
readability  level that is grade-level appropriate prior to the adminis-
tration of such assessments.
  (2) consult with relevant stakeholders, as determined by  the  commis-
sioner of education, and consider the use of comprehension and readabil-
ity  indices  or  tests  such as those established by the Flesch-Kincaid
Grade Level, Gunning Fog Index, Coleman-Liau Index,  SMOG  Index,  Auto-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10523-03-5

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