Bill Text: IL HJR0058 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the State Board of Education to reconsider its use of the PARCC exam as a way to test students' readiness for higher education and instead consider the use of alternative Common Core-based exams.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-05 - Referred to Assignments [HJR0058 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HJR0058-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for | ||||||
| 3 | College and Careers (PARCC) exam has replaced well-recognized | ||||||
| 4 | State assessments, such as the ISAT and IGAP, as an | ||||||
| 5 | accountability measure to test students from kindergarten to | ||||||
| 6 | 12th grade on college readiness; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, The PARCC exam is not recognized by any college as | ||||||
| 8 | a college readiness exam, nor does it serve as a replacement | ||||||
| 9 | for the ACT or SAT, leaving little incentive for students to do | ||||||
| 10 | their best; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The PARCC exam administered in the 2014-2015 | ||||||
| 12 | school year resulted in computer glitches that slowed down | ||||||
| 13 | testing or did not allow students to access the exam at all; | ||||||
| 14 | and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, The length and difficulty of administering the | ||||||
| 16 | PARCC exam takes away too much traditional class time; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Content errors and poorly-worded questions in the | ||||||
| 18 | exam make it difficult for students to know what the questions | ||||||
| 19 | are asking; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, There exists standards-based systems of | ||||||
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| 1 | assessments to monitor progress toward college and career | ||||||
| 2 | readiness aligned with the ACT College Benchmarks and in which | ||||||
| 3 | student outcomes are aligned to the Domain and Cluster | ||||||
| 4 | reporting categories of the Common Core State Standards; | ||||||
| 5 | therefore, be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 7 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 8 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge the State Board of | ||||||
| 9 | Education to reconsider its use of the PARCC exam as a way to | ||||||
| 10 | test students; and be it further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That we urge the State Board of Education to | ||||||
| 12 | review the school assessment solutions offered by other Common | ||||||
| 13 | Core-based exams in order to better and more efficiently test | ||||||
| 14 | students' readiness for higher education; and be it further
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| 15 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 16 | delivered to the State Board of Education.
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