Bill > A2567

Introduced Session

This bill requires school districts and the Department of Education to post information on their websites regarding student participation in the assessments developed by the consortium of states known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC assessments). Under the bill, a school district must provide on its website, and make publicly available upon request, information regarding the number of students in each grade level who participated in the administration of a PARCC assessment and the number of students who did not participate in the assessment. The information will include the subject area of the PARCC assessment, the grade levels covered by the assessment, and the dates on which the assessment was administered. A school district must provide the required information on its website, and provide the information to the Department of Education, no later than ten days after the district completes its administration of any PARCC assessment to any grade level. In addition, the bill requires the Department of Education to post on its website data regarding the total number of students in each grade level Statewide who participated in the administration of a PARCC assessment and the total number of students in each grade level Statewide who did not participate in the administration of a PARCC assessment. The information will include the subject area of the PARCC assessment, the grade levels covered by the assessment, and the dates of the testing window in which the assessment was administered. The department must post the information within a reasonable time after receiving the participation data from all school districts.

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Daniel Benson (D)*,  Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D)*,  Patrick Diegnan (D)*,  Mila Jasey (D)*,  Angela Mcknight (D)*,  Gail Phoebus (R),  Annette Quijano (D),  Parker Space (R), 

Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee (on 06/06/2016)