Bill Text: TX SB215 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to limiting certain state-required assessment instruments administered to public school students in certain grades to assessments required by federal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Education [SB215 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB215-Introduced.html
85R2445 GCB-F | ||
By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 215 |
|
||
|
||
relating to limiting certain state-required assessment instruments | ||
administered to public school students in certain grades to | ||
assessments required by federal law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(a), Education Code, as effective | ||
September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate | ||
criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess | ||
essential knowledge and skills in subjects for which assessment is | ||
required by federal law [ |
||
|
||
students, other than students assessed under Subsection (b) or (l) | ||
or exempted under Section 39.027, shall be assessed in[ |
||
[ |
||
|
||
|
||
[ |
||
[ |
||
|
||
[ |
||
[ |
||
[ |
||
federal law. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 39.02301(a) and (d), Education Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) During the 2015-2016 school year, the agency, in | ||
coordination with the entity that has been contracted to develop or | ||
implement assessment instruments under Section 39.023, shall | ||
conduct a study to develop a writing assessment method as an | ||
alternative to the writing assessment instruments required under | ||
Section 39.023(c) [ |
||
assessment method must be designed to assess: | ||
(1) a student's mastery of the essential knowledge and | ||
skills in writing through timed writing samples; | ||
(2) improvement of a student's writing skills from the | ||
beginning of the school year to the end of the school year; | ||
(3) a student's ability to follow the writing process | ||
from rough draft to final product; and | ||
(4) a student's ability to produce more than one type | ||
of writing style. | ||
(d) A school district designated to participate in the pilot | ||
program under this section is not required to comply with the | ||
writing assessment requirements under Section 39.023(c) [ |
||
|
||
in the pilot program. The agency shall, to the greatest extent | ||
practicable, apply cost savings that result from the exemption | ||
under this subsection to offset the costs accrued under this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |