Bill Text: IA SF2040 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to statewide assessments of student progress utilizing core academic indicators and including effective date provisions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 18-5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Schoenjahn, and Sinclair. S.J. 106. [SF2040 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2040-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2040 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  SINCLAIR, SCHULTZ,
                                     SHIPLEY, ROZENBOOM,
                                     BEHN, DVORSKY,
                                     KRAAYENBRINK,
                                     CHELGREN, GUTH,
                                     GARRETT, BREITBACH,
                                     JOHNSON, ANDERSON,
                                     ZAUN, KINNEY, BOLKCOM,
                                     FEENSTRA, COSTELLO,
                                     SEGEBART, BISIGNANO,
                                     BERTRAND, CHAPMAN,
                                     KAPUCIAN, and BOWMAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to statewide assessments of student progress
  2    utilizing core academic indicators and including effective
  3    date provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 21, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraphs (2) and (3), Code 2016, are amended by striking
  1  3 the subparagraphs.
  1  4    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1  5 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1  6                           EXPLANATION
  1  7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  8 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1  9    Current law requires that the state board of education
  1 10 provide in rule for a set of core academic indicators in
  1 11 mathematics and reading in grades 4, 8, and 11, and for science
  1 12 in grades 8 and 11, and that the Iowa assessments, used by
  1 13 school districts in the school year beginning July 1, 2011, be
  1 14 used for this purpose.
  1 15    This bill strikes a requirement that the state board's rules
  1 16 provide that for the school year beginning July 1, 2016, and
  1 17 each succeeding school year, all students enrolled in school
  1 18 districts in grades 3 through 11 shall be administered an
  1 19 assessment during the last quarter of the school year that
  1 20 assesses student progress on the core academic indicators.
  1 21 The provision also requires that the assessment used after
  1 22 July 1, 2016, at a minimum be aligned with the Iowa common
  1 23 core standards in both content and rigor; accurately describe
  1 24 student achievement and growth for purposes of the school, the
  1 25 school district, and state accountability systems; and provide
  1 26 valid, reliable, and fair measures of student progress toward
  1 27 college or career readiness.
  1 28    The bill also strikes a Code provision that requires the
  1 29 director of the department of education to establish an
  1 30 assessment task force to review and make recommendations
  1 31 for a statewide assessment of student progress on the core
  1 32 academic indicators.  The Iowa assessment task force submitted
  1 33 its findings and recommendations in a report to the general
  1 34 assembly on December 31, 2014.
  1 35    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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