Bill Text: IN SB0193 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Common core state educational standards.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-02-26 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [SB0193 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-SB0193-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-19; IC 20-31; IC 20-32; noncode.
Effective: Upon passage; July 1, 2013.
January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
February 14, 2013, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
February 19, 2013, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
Digest Continued
June 30, 2013, and March 31, 2014, prohibits the state from entering into or renewing an agreement that cedes control or autonomy over educational standards and assessments to any outside entity. Provides that academic standards are adopted in a six year cycle, beginning in 2013. Adds parent members to an academic standards committee (currently, the committee is made up of educators in the subject area that is being revised). Provides that a parent may request a rescoring of a student's responses on any statewide assessment that the student is required to complete. Requires the office of management and budget to perform a fiscal analysis of the projected cost to the state and school corporations of the first five years of implementation of the common core standards.
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(b) Notwithstanding section 14 of this chapter, the state board may not:
(1) continue to implement as standards for the state or direct the department to implement any common core standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative; and
(2) require the use of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers assessment or the Smarter Balanced assessment by schools;
until the state board has conducted public meetings, at which testimony must be taken, concerning the adoption of the common
core standards and the assessments described in subdivision (2). At
least one (1) public meeting must be conducted under this
subsection in each congressional district, and at least (1) member
of the state board must attend each meeting.
(c) During the adoption process under subsection (b), the state
board shall:
(1) compare existing Indiana standards with the common core
standards; and
(2) consider best practices in developing and adopting the
standards, seeking information from a broad range of
sources, including:
(A) subject area teachers from elementary and secondary
schools in Indiana; and
(B) subject area instructors and experts from
postsecondary educational institutions; and
(C) any other standards the state board considers to be
superior standards.
(d) After conducting the public meetings under subsection (b)
and carrying out the requirements of subsection (c), the state board
shall adopt standards for the state, which may include the common
core standards.
(e) Notwithstanding subsection (b), after June 30, 2013, any
academic standard that was in effect on June 30, 2013, may
continue to be implemented, and academic standards for grade 2
may be adopted, amended, or revised.
(f) After June 30, 2013, the state, or the state board on behalf of
the state, may not enter into or renew an agreement with any
organization, entity, group, or consortium that requires the state
to cede any measure of autonomy or control of education standards
and assessments. This subsection expires March 31, 2014.
(1) for each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12; and
(2) in each subject area listed in section 2 of this chapter;
at least once every six (6) years, beginning in 2013. This revision must occur on a cyclical basis.
(b) A revision under this chapter must comply with IC 20-19-2-14.5.
2013]: Sec. 4. The state superintendent shall appoint an academic
standards committee composed of subject area teachers and parents
during the period when a subject area is undergoing revision.
(b) After reports of student scores are returned to a school corporation, the school corporation shall promptly do the following:
(1) Give each student and the student's parent the student's ISTEP program test scores.
(2) Make available for inspection to each student and the student's parent the following:
(A) A copy of the essay questions and prompts used in assessing the student.
(B) A copy of the student's scored essays.
(C) A copy of the anchor papers and scoring rubrics used to score the student's essays.
A student's parent may request a rescoring of a student's responses to
(b) Not later than September 1, 2013, the office of management and budget shall report the results of the fiscal analysis performed under subsection (a) to:
(1) the general assembly;
(2) the state board of education;
(3) the state superintendent of public instruction; and
(4) the education roundtable.
The report to the general assembly must be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.
(c) This SECTION expires September 2, 2013.
