Senate Bill S7461

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-S7461 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10058
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S2279, A3101
2019-2020: A7166
2021-2022: A1049

2015-S7461 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-S7461 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7461 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7461

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 3, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee 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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