Bill Text: NY S05648 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the use of student achievement in the annual performance reviews of teachers and building principals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-11 - PRINT NUMBER 5648A [S05648 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05648-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5648--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 21, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PANEPINTO -- 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 committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the use of student achievement in the annual performance reviews of teachers and building principals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 2 and subparagraph 1 of para- 2 graph a of subdivision 4 of section 3012-d of the education law, para- 3 graph d of subdivision 2 as added by section 2 of subpart E of part EE 4 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015 and subparagraph 1 of paragraph a of 5 subdivision 4 as amended by section 3 of subpart C of part B of chapter 6 20 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as follows: 7 d. "State-designed supplemental assessment" shall mean a selection of 8 state tests or assessments developed or designed by the state education 9 department, or that the state education department purchased or acquired 10 from (i) another state; (ii) an institution of higher education; or 11 (iii) a commercial or not-for-profit entity, provided that such entity 12 must be objective and may not have a conflict of interest or appearance 13 of a conflict of interest; such definition may include tests or assess- 14 ments that have been previously designed or acquired by local districts, 15 but only if the state education department significantly modifies growth 16 targets or scoring bands for such tests or assessments or otherwise 17 adapts the test or assessment to the state education department's 18 requirements, or other locally selected measure of student achievement. 19 (1) For the first subcomponent, (A) for a teacher whose course ends in 20 a state-created or administered test for which there is a state-provided 21 growth model, such teacher shall have a state-provided growth score EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11307-02-6
