Bill Text: NY S05921 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the weight assigned to state-created or administered testing results for calculating the student performance category of teacher assessments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-28 - PRINT NUMBER 5921A [S05921 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05921-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5921--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 11, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the weight assigned to
          state-created or administered  testing  results  for  calculating  the
          student performance category of teacher assessments
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision  4  of  section  3012-d  of  the
     2  education  law, as added by section 2 of subpart E of part EE of chapter
     3  56 of the laws of 2015, subparagraph  1  as  amended  by  section  3  of
     4  subpart  C  of  part  B of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     5  read as follows:
     6    a. Student performance category. Such category shall  have  [at  least
     7  one  subcomponent and an optional second subcomponent] two subcomponents
     8  as follows:
     9    (1) For the first subcomponent, (A) for a teacher whose course ends in
    10  a state-created or administered test for which there is a state-provided
    11  growth model, such teacher shall  have  a  state-provided  growth  score
    12  based on such model, which shall take into consideration certain student
    13  characteristics,  as  determined  by the commissioner, including but not
    14  limited to students with disabilities, poverty, English language learner
    15  status and prior academic history and  which  shall  identify  educators
    16  whose  students'  growth is well above or well below average compared to
    17  similar students for a  teacher's  or  principal's  students  after  the
    18  certain  student  characteristics  above are taken into account; and (B)
    19  for a teacher whose course does not end in a state-created  or  adminis-
    20  tered  test  such  teacher shall have a student learning objective (SLO)
    21  consistent with a goal-setting process determined or  developed  by  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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