Bill Text: CA AB908 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pupils: extracurricular activities: work permits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2020. [AB908 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB908-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 908

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Introduced by Assembly Member O’Donnell

February 20, 2019

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An act to amend Section 60642.6 of the Education Code, relating to pupil assessment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 908, as introduced, O’Donnell. Pupil assessments: interim and formative assessments.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, and any other entity or individual designated by the Governor to participate in the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or any related interstate consortium, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to acquire, and offer at no cost to local educational agencies, interim and formative assessment tools for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided through membership in that consortium. Existing law requires the interim assessments to be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use to continually adjust instruction to improve pupil learning.

This bill would require formative assessments offered pursuant to those provisions to also be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use to continually adjust instruction to improve pupil learning.

Existing law requires all interim assessments offered by the department, as described above, to be developed in close consultation with current classroom teachers at each grade level assessed for the purpose of soliciting feedback regarding the capacity of the interim assessments to provide timely feedback to allow teachers to continually adjust instruction to improve learning.

This bill would require those assessments to be additionally developed in close consultation with current classroom teachers in each subject assessed for those same purposes.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 60642.6 of the Education Code is amended to read:

60642.6.

 (a) The department shall acquire, and offer at no cost to local educational agencies, interim and formative assessment tools for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided through the consortium membership pursuant to Section 60605.7. The interim and formative assessments shall be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use, in combination with other sources of information they have about their pupils’ progress, to continually adjust instruction to improve learning.

(b) A local educational agency that elects to use the interim assessments provided for under this section shall ensure that teachers who administer the assessments have access to all functions and information, information which are designed for teacher use, relating use and which relate to the assessments and pupil performance on the assessments.

(c) All interim assessments offered pursuant to this section shall be developed in close consultation with current classroom teachers at each grade level and subject assessed for the purpose of soliciting feedback regarding the capacity of the interim assessments to provide timely feedback to allow teachers to continually adjust instruction to improve learning.