Bill Amendment: AZ SB1321 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Schools; statewide achievement assessments; menu
Status: 2016-02-29 - Senate Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended [SB1321 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2016-SB1321-SENATE_ADOPTED_AMENDMENT_Allen_flr_amend_ref_Bill_sub_ED_adopted.html
Bill
Number: S.B. 1321
Allen S Floor Amendment
Reference to: printed bill
Amendment drafted by: Catcher Baden
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
� Specifies the menu of assessments is comprised of locally procured achievement assessments.
� Requires local education agencies that offer instruction in grades three through eight to select an assessment from the menu beginning in the 2018-2019 school year and directs the State Board of Education to submit a report by December 15, 2017, on the progress of the implementation of the menu of assessments for grades three through eight.
� Removes the requirement for the menu to include the statewide assessment adopted by the State Board of Education and removes the requirement for assessments added to the menu to be high quality.
� Allows local education agencies to request the State Board of Education evaluate and approve a locally procured assessment not on the menu of assessments but in use by that local education agency and directs the State Board of Education to evaluate these assessment requests annually.
� Requires a local education agency to include the name of the assessment it administers in the annual school report card and administer the assessment for a minimum period of time prescribed by the State Board of Education.
� Prohibits a local education agency with a letter grade of D or F from choosing an assessment other than the statewide assessment adopted by the State Board of Education.
� Removes the requirement for providers to demonstrate the per pupil cost of assessments on the menu are not more than the per pupil cost of the statewide assessment adopted by the State Board of Education.
� Requires the providers of locally procured assessments to demonstrate the assessment can be equated for state accountability purposes and provide a copy of assessment scores to the Department of Education when scores are provided to the local education agency.
� Includes a legislative intent clause.
Fifty-second Legislature Allen S
Second Regular Session S.B. 1321
ALLEN S FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1321
(Reference to printed bill)
Page 1, line 4, strike "statewide" insert "locally procured"
Line 6, strike "statewide" insert "locally procured"
Line 9, after "agency" insert "that offers instruction in grades nine through twelve"; strike "a statewide" insert "an"; after "assessment" insert "that is locally procured"
Line 10, after "in" insert "one or more schools as provided for in the rules and procedures of the state board of education in"; after "agency" insert "instead of the test to measure pupil achievement adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 15‑741"; after the period insert "Beginning in the 2018‑2019 school year, each local education agency that offers instruction in grades three through eight may select from that menu an achievement assessment that is locally procured to administer to the pupils in that local education agency instead of the test to measure pupil achievement adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 15‑741."
Strike lines 11 through 15, insert:
"B. A locally procured achievement assessment in use by a local education agency that is not on the menu of assessments may be added to the menu at the request of the local education agency and approval by the state board of education. The state board of education shall evaluate locally procured assessments not on the menu pursuant to this section annually."
Line 16, strike "statewide" insert "locally procured"
Line 18, after the period insert "the local education agency shall include the name of the assessment it administers in the school report card required in section 15‑746 and administer the assessment for a minimum period of time prescribed by the state board of education."
Page 1, line 19, after "procedures" insert "for the approval of locally procured assessments"
Line 24, after "section" insert "except that a local education agency assigned a letter grade of D or F pursuant to section 15‑241 may not choose an assessment from the menu and shall continue to use the statewide assessment adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 15‑741."
Line 25, after "E." insert "The state board of education shall require that"; strike "statewide" insert "locally procured"
Line 26, strike "on" insert "considered for"; strike "statewide" insert "locally procured"
Line 27, strike "before the assessment's adoption by the state board of education"
Strike lines 31 through 33, insert:
"3. Demonstrate that the assessment scores can be equated for state accountability programs including establishing comparable student assessment scores and performance levels for achievement profiles and letter grade classifications issued pursuant to section 15‑241."
Line 37, after "5." strike remainder of line insert "Provide a copy of assessment scores to the department of education when scores are provided to their partnering Local education agency.
Sec. 2. Report; menu of assessments; state board of education
The state board of education shall submit a report on or before December 15, 2017 to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the chairs of the standing education committees and provide a copy of the report to the secretary of state on the progress of the implementation of the menu of assessments for local education agencies that offer instruction in grades three through eight.
Sec. 3. Legislative intent
It is the intent of the legislature that the state allow local education agencies to use assessments procured at the local level, if they meet the requirements outlined in this act, in order to limit duplicative testing and to save local resources currently spent administering multiple assessments. If local learning goals and state accountability requirements can be met with one assessment, the state should relieve students, teachers and schools of unnecessary duplicative testing and maximize instructional time."
Amend title to conform
