Bill Text: NY S02279 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 2279A [S02279 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02279-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2279--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO,  AVELLA,  FUNKE, KAMINSKY, SEWARD -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to creating a committee
          to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and  ways  to
          increase the test's transparency
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3    57. a. The board of regents is authorized and directed to establish  a
     4  committee to research and develop ways to reduce the length of standard-
     5  ized  tests administered to students between kindergarten and the eighth
     6  grade and ways to increase the test's transparency. The committee  shall
     7  review  how  the  test's  transparency  would  impact students' privacy,
     8  including, but not limited to: (i) what data is  being  collected;  (ii)
     9  how  the data is being collected; (iii) who is collecting the data; (iv)
    10  where is the data being stored; and (v) why the data is being used.
    11    b. Along with any recommendations made by the  committee,  the  subse-
    12  quent  criteria  shall  be  followed  by  the state education department
    13  and/or school districts:
    14    (1) any standardized test administered to students between  kindergar-
    15  ten  and  eighth  grade shall be released publicly on the New York state
    16  education department's website within  ten  days  of  the  scores  being
    17  released;
    18    (2)  the  release  of  test  scores shall occur within ten days of the
    19  tests being graded; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01873-02-8
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     1    (3) parents shall be notified within thirty days of any  district-wide
     2  standardized  test  planned  to  be  administered, along with the test's
     3  make-up dates. This includes any  operational  test  as  well  as  field
     4  tests.
     5    b. The committee shall be made up entirely of New York state certified
     6  educators who reside in this state.
     7    c.  The  committee shall create a proposal and present it to the board
     8  of regents within a year of the committee's creation.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the twentieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.