Bill Text: NY A02812 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of a minimum standardized test cut-off score for student admission to or rejection by the state university of New York and city university of New York; permits overall assessment of student qualifications for admission, including consideration of such scores together with academic course grades, classroom performance, community service, and extracurricular activities, provided that the effect of doing so does not result in establishing a minimum standardized test score for admission or rejection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to higher education [A02812 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02812-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2812
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the use of
         a  minimum score on a standardized test or combination of standardized
         tests as a cut-off for admission to or rejection by the state  univer-
         sity of New York and the city university of New York
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of  the  educa-
    2  tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 10 to read as follows:
    3    (10)  IN  REGULATING THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS, A MINIMUM SCORE ON ONE
    4  OR MORE STANDARDIZED APTITUDE OR ACHIEVEMENT  TESTS,  SUCH  AS  BUT  NOT
    5  LIMITED TO THE COLLEGE BOARD'S SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TESTS OR ITS ACHIEVE-
    6  MENT  OR  ACT  TESTS,  OR A MINIMUM INDEX SCORE DERIVED BY UTILIZING ANY
    7  COMBINATION OF SCORES FROM MORE THAN ONE OF ANY SUCH STANDARDIZED TESTS,
    8  SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED AS A MINIMUM STANDARD FOR STUDENT ADMISSION TO ANY
    9  COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY.  NO PROVISION OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH  SHALL  BE
   10  CONSTRUED TO PRECLUDE CONSIDERATION OF SUCH SCORES TOGETHER WITH ACADEM-
   11  IC  COURSE  GRADES, CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE, COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND EXTRA-
   12  CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, IN DETERMINING QUALIFICATIONS FOR STUDENT  ADMIS-
   13  SION,  NOR  TO  PRECLUDE  THE  USE  OF  AN INDEX BASED UPON SUCH OVERALL
   14  ASSESSMENT OF A STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN MAKING
   15  SUCH ASSESSMENT OR CONSTRUCTING SUCH INDEX, NO MINIMUM SCORE ON ANY SUCH
   16  STANDARDIZED TEST OR COMBINATION OF STANDARDIZED TESTS SHALL BE REQUIRED
   17  AS A STANDARD FOR ADMISSION; AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT THE COMPONENTS OF
   18  ANY SUCH INDEX SHALL NOT BE WEIGHTED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO REQUIRE,  IN
   19  EFFECT,  THAT  A MINIMUM SCORE BE ATTAINED ON ANY SUCH STANDARDIZED TEST
   20  OR COMBINATION OF STANDARDIZED TESTS  TO  REACH  AN  INDEX  SCORE  WHICH
   21  CONSTITUTES THE CUT-OFF POINT FOR STUDENT ADMISSION OR REJECTION.
   22    S  2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by
   23  adding a new paragraph (a-2) to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00648-01-3
       A. 2812                             2
    1     (A-2) IN REGULATING THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS, A MINIMUM SCORE ON ONE
    2  OR MORE STANDARDIZED APTITUDE OR ACHIEVEMENT  TESTS,  SUCH  AS  BUT  NOT
    3  LIMITED TO THE COLLEGE BOARD'S SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TESTS OR ITS ACHIEVE-
    4  MENT  OR  ACT  TESTS,  OR A MINIMUM INDEX SCORE DERIVED BY UTILIZING ANY
    5  COMBINATION OF SCORES FROM MORE THAN ONE OF ANY SUCH STANDARDIZED TESTS,
    6  SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED AS A MINIMUM STANDARD FOR STUDENT ADMISSION TO ANY
    7  COLLEGE  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY.    NO PROVISION OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE
    8  CONSTRUED TO PRECLUDE CONSIDERATION OF SUCH SCORES TOGETHER WITH ACADEM-
    9  IC COURSE GRADES, CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE, COMMUNITY SERVICE,  AND  EXTRA-
   10  CURRICULAR  ACTIVITIES, IN DETERMINING QUALIFICATIONS FOR STUDENT ADMIS-
   11  SION, NOR TO PRECLUDE THE USE  OF  AN  INDEX  BASED  UPON  SUCH  OVERALL
   12  ASSESSMENT OF A STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN MAKING
   13  SUCH ASSESSMENT OR CONSTRUCTING SUCH INDEX, NO MINIMUM SCORE ON ANY SUCH
   14  STANDARDIZED TEST OR COMBINATION OF STANDARDIZED TESTS SHALL BE REQUIRED
   15  AS A STANDARD FOR ADMISSION; AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT THE COMPONENTS OF
   16  ANY  SUCH INDEX SHALL NOT BE WEIGHTED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO REQUIRE, IN
   17  EFFECT, THAT A MINIMUM SCORE BE ATTAINED ON ANY SUCH  STANDARDIZED  TEST
   18  OR  COMBINATION  OF  STANDARDIZED  TESTS  TO  REACH AN INDEX SCORE WHICH
   19  CONSTITUTES THE CUT-OFF POINT FOR STUDENT ADMISSION OR REJECTION.
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.