Bill Text: NY A06101 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6101 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Instructs the commissioner of education to prohibit schools from placing state administered test scores on a student's official transcript; further instructs the commissioner of education to alert parents of students that state administered test scores are not included in such student's official transcript.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in education [A06101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06101-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6101
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to  prohibit  the  use  of  state  examinations  to  calculate  a
          student's overall grade point average
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. 1. The commissioner of  education  shall  provide  that  no
     2  school  district  or board of cooperative educational services may place
     3  or include on a student's official transcript or maintain in a student's
     4  permanent record any individual student score on  a  state  administered
     5  standardized  English language arts or mathematics assessment for grades
     6  three through eight, provided that nothing herein shall be construed  to
     7  interfere with required state or federal reporting or to excuse a school
     8  district  from  maintaining  or transferring records of such test scores
     9  separately from a student's permanent record, including for purposes  of
    10  required state or federal reporting.
    11    2.  The  commissioner of education shall provide that any test results
    12  on a state administered standardized English language arts or  mathemat-
    13  ics assessment for grades three through eight sent to parents or persons
    14  in parental relation to a student include a clear and conspicuous notice
    15  that  such  results will not be included on the student's official tran-
    16  script or in the student's permanent record and are  being  provided  to
    17  the student and parents for diagnostic purposes.
    18    3.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, rule or regulation to
    19  the contrary, the English language arts and  mathematics  state  assess-
    20  ments for grades three through eight shall not be utilized in any manner
    21  to  evaluate,  grade, or otherwise determine eligibility for advancement
    22  in grades of any student.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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