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Jan 04, 2012 |
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Jan 12, 2011 |
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Assembly Bill A1855
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
WRIGHT
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-A1855 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-A1855 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Prohibits the use of a minimum standardized test cut-off score for student admission to or rejection by the state university of New York and city university of New York; permits overall assessment of student qualifications for admission, including consideration of such scores together with academic course grades, classroom performance, community service, and extracurricular activities, provided that the effect of doing so does not result in establishing a minimum standardized test score for admission or rejection.
2011-A1855 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1855 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 12, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the use of a minimum score on a standardized test or combination of standardized tests as a cut-off for admission to or rejection by the state univer- sity of New York and the city university of New York THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa- tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 10 to read as follows: (10) IN REGULATING THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS, A MINIMUM SCORE ON ONE OR MORE STANDARDIZED APTITUDE OR ACHIEVEMENT TESTS, SUCH AS BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE COLLEGE BOARD'S SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TESTS OR ITS ACHIEVE- MENT OR ACT TESTS, OR A MINIMUM INDEX SCORE DERIVED BY UTILIZING ANY COMBINATION OF SCORES FROM MORE THAN ONE OF ANY SUCH STANDARDIZED TESTS, SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED AS A MINIMUM STANDARD FOR STUDENT ADMISSION TO ANY COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY. NO PROVISION OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO PRECLUDE CONSIDERATION OF SUCH SCORES TOGETHER WITH ACADEM- IC COURSE GRADES, CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE, COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND EXTRA- CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, IN DETERMINING QUALIFICATIONS FOR STUDENT ADMIS- SION, NOR TO PRECLUDE THE USE OF AN INDEX BASED UPON SUCH OVERALL ASSESSMENT OF A STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN MAKING SUCH ASSESSMENT OR CONSTRUCTING SUCH INDEX, NO MINIMUM SCORE ON ANY SUCH STANDARDIZED TEST OR COMBINATION OF STANDARDIZED TESTS SHALL BE REQUIRED AS A STANDARD FOR ADMISSION; AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT THE COMPONENTS OF ANY SUCH INDEX SHALL NOT BE WEIGHTED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO REQUIRE, IN EFFECT, THAT A MINIMUM SCORE BE ATTAINED ON ANY SUCH STANDARDIZED TEST OR COMBINATION OF STANDARDIZED TESTS TO REACH AN INDEX SCORE WHICH CONSTITUTES THE CUT-OFF POINT FOR STUDENT ADMISSION OR REJECTION. S 2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01006-01-1
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