Bill Text: NY A00891 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a moratorium on standardized testing of students with IEPs; authorizes the creation of a task force to develop a new evaluation system for such students, and a corresponding method for providing their teachers with their annual professional performance reviews.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A00891 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00891-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           891
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, JAFFEE, ARROYO, RAIA, MONTESANO, CROUCH
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  COOK,  THIELE  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to a moratorium on the
          issuance of standardized tests to certain students; and to establish a
          task force to develop a system allowing students  with  individualized
          education programs to be evaluated
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 348 of the education law is renumbered section  349
     2  and a new section 348 is added to read as follows:
     3    §  348.  Moratorium  on  standardized testing of certain students. The
     4  department shall ensure that any test  established  and/or  administered
     5  pursuant  to  this article shall not be given to any student for whom an
     6  individualized education program has been created.
     7    § 2. 1.  The department of education shall establish a task  force  to
     8  develop  a  system  to  evaluate  students with individualized education
     9  programs and their respective teachers  with  regard  to  the  teacher's
    10  annual professional performance review.
    11    2.  The task force shall consist of thirteen members, one nominated by
    12  each member of the board of regents,  except  at-large  members.    Each
    13  nominee  shall  be  a  teacher who is certified in special education and
    14  shall reside in the district represented by the member of the  board  of
    15  regents who nominated him or her.
    16    3. All nominations shall be confirmed by a majority vote of the entire
    17  board of regents.
    18    4.  The  task  force  shall submit its recommendation of an evaluation
    19  system to the governor, the temporary president of the senate,  and  the
    20  speaker  of the assembly, within 12 months of the effective date of this
    21  section.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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