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                                   1049
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, COLTON, SAYEGH, CRUZ, EPSTEIN, DICK-
   ENS,  DARLING,  REYES  --  read  once and referred 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 57 to read as follows:
   57.  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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   C. THE COMMITTEE SHALL BE MADE UP ENTIRELY OF NEW YORK STATE CERTIFIED
 EDUCATORS WHO RESIDE IN THIS STATE.
   D.  THE  COMMITTEE SHALL CREATE A PROPOSAL AND PRESENT IT TO THE BOARD
 OF REGENTS WITHIN A YEAR OF THE COMMITTEE'S CREATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the twentieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.