Bill Text: NY A08208 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Adjusts state qualitative skill education assessment standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-30 - print number 8208a [A08208 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08208-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8208--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 11, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Education  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Education in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to adjusting state  qual-
          itative skill education assessment standards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 669-e of the education law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  The  commissioner  shall authorize the department and the board of
     4  education,  in  accordance  with  qualitative  and  quantitative  skills
     5  assessments of students' performance, standards regarding (a) what grade
     6  level  STEM  education is introduced prior to higher education, (b) what
     7  constitutes an acceptable curriculum for STEM, and (c) the  creation  of
     8  an  evaluative  rubric  to  examine student and teacher progress in STEM
     9  fields. The board and department are also authorized to create a curric-
    10  ulum for training teachers  who  will  be  engaged  in  STEM  fields  to
    11  adequately  prepare  them  for STEM curriculum in their classrooms. Such
    12  curriculum must be  made  available  to  all  teachers  responsible  for
    13  science and math courses in primary and secondary schools and all teach-
    14  ers must have the opportunity to train under new STEM standards.
    15    §  2.  Section  305  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
    16  subdivision 55 to read as follows:
    17    55. The commissioner shall direct the  department  and  the  board  of
    18  education  to  promulgate rules and regulations regarding science, tech-
    19  nology, engineering and math (STEM) education  pursuant  to  subdivision
    20  six of section six hundred sixty-nine-e of this chapter.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11450-03-6