Bill Text: NY A08247 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the weight assigned to state-created or administered testing results for calculating the student performance category of teacher assessments.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 15-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-25 - held for consideration in education [A08247 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08247-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8247--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 15, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. TEDISCO, DiPIETRO, DUPREY, FRIEND, HAWLEY, McDO-
          NOUGH, McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO, RA, TENNEY, WALTER,  WOZNIAK  --  Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUTLER, CERETTO, KEARNS, LUPINACCI, THIELE --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to
          the  Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the weight assigned to
          state-created  or  administered  testing  results  for calculating the
          student performance category of teacher assessments
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  4 of section 3012-d of the
     2  education law, as added by section 2 of subpart E of part EE of  chapter
     3  56  of  the  laws  of  2015,  subparagraph  1 as amended by section 3 of
     4  subpart C of part B of chapter 20 of the laws of  2015,  is  amended  to
     5  read as follows:
     6    a.  Student  performance  category. Such category shall have [at least
     7  one subcomponent and an optional second subcomponent] two  subcomponents
     8  as follows:
     9    (1) For the first subcomponent, (A) for a teacher whose course ends in
    10  a state-created or administered test for which there is a state-provided
    11  growth  model,  such  teacher  shall  have a state-provided growth score
    12  based on such model, which shall take into consideration certain student
    13  characteristics, as determined by the commissioner,  including  but  not
    14  limited to students with disabilities, poverty, English language learner
    15  status  and  prior  academic  history and which shall identify educators
    16  whose students' growth is well above or well below average  compared  to
    17  similar  students  for  a  teacher's  or  principal's students after the
    18  certain student characteristics above are taken into  account;  and  (B)
    19  for  a  teacher whose course does not end in a state-created or adminis-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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