STATE OF NEW YORK
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5921--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 11, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- 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 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-
20 tered test such teacher shall have a student learning objective (SLO)
21 consistent with a goal-setting process determined or developed by the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11361-02-6