Bill Text: NJ A3079 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-5)

Status: (Passed) 2015-11-09 - Approved P.L.2015, c.134. [A3079 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3079-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3079

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MAY 8, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

Assemblyman  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  CHARLES MAINOR

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  SHEILA Y. OLIVER

District 34 (Essex and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  BETTYLOU DECROCE

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Stender, Assemblymen Johnson, McKeon, Assemblywoman Pintor Marin and Assemblyman Caputo

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 

An Act prohibiting the administration of standardized assessments in certain grades and supplementing chapter 7C of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  As used in this section, "commercially-developed standardized assessment" means an assessment that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions, in the same manner, and is developed and scored by an entity under a contract with a board of education.

     b.    A board of education shall not administer any commercially-developed standardized assessment that is not required pursuant to State or federal law to a student enrolled in kindergarten through the second grade.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the ability of a classroom teacher or board of education to develop, administer, and score an assessment for an individual classroom, grade level, or group of grade levels in any subject area in kindergarten through the second grade.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first be applicable to the first full school year beginning after the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that a school district may not administer a commercially-developed standardized assessment to students enrolled in kindergarten through the second grade.  The bill would not preclude a classroom teacher or a board of education from developing, administering, and scoring an assessment in kindergarten through the second grade.