Bill Text: NY S05394 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for a parent to choose to opt their student out of the grade three through eight English language arts and math state assessments, and requires the commissioner of education to provide notice to parents of such right.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S05394 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05394-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5394--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, BENJAMIN, RAMOS, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to opting out of certain state assessments 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 60 to read as follows: 3 60. a. The commissioner shall ensure that school districts provide 4 notice to parents of students in grades three through eight of the 5 parent's right to opt their student out of the grade three through eight 6 English language arts and math state assessments. Such notice shall be 7 developed by the department, written in clear and concise language and 8 translated in the six most common languages in the state. The notice 9 shall be made available on the department's website. 10 b. The commissioner shall ensure that school districts provide parents 11 of students in grades three through eight with the notice pursuant to 12 paragraph a of this subdivision. Such notification shall be given no 13 later than thirty days after the start of the school year. 14 c. The school district shall honor a parent's decision to exercise 15 their right to opt their student out of the grade three through eight 16 English language arts and math state assessments. The school district 17 shall be prohibited from taking punitive measures against a student 18 whose parent has chosen to opt their student out of the grades three 19 through eight English language arts and math state assessments. 20 d. Any violation of this subdivision may be subject to an appeal to 21 the commissioner. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 23 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10815-06-9