Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 09, 2016 |
referred to education |
Assembly Bill A10058
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
BRINDISI
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
co-Sponsors
John Ceretto
Andrew Raia
Angelo Santabarbara
Marc Butler
multi-Sponsors
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Clifford Crouch
William Magee
Edward Ra
2015-A10058 (ACTIVE) - Details
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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