Bill Text: NY S07461 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2016-05-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07461 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07461-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7461
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 3, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        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 55 to read as follows:
     3    55.  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
    20    (3)  parents shall be notified within thirty days of any district-wide
    21  standardized test planned to be  administered,  along  with  the  test's
    22  make-up  dates.  This  includes  any  operational  test as well as field
    23  tests.
    24    b. The committee shall be made up entirely of New York state certified
    25  educators who reside in this state.
    26    c. The committee shall create a proposal and present it to  the  board
    27  of regents within a year of the committee's creation.
    28    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the twentieth day after it shall
    29  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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