Instructs the commissioner of education to prohibit schools from placing state administered test scores on a student's official transcript; further instructs the commissioner of education to alert parents of students that state administered test scores are not included in such student's official transcript.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6101
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to prohibit the use of state examinations to calculate a
student's overall grade point average
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. The commissioner of education shall provide that no
2 school district or board of cooperative educational services may place
3 or include on a student's official transcript or maintain in a student's
4 permanent record any individual student score on a state administered
5 standardized English language arts or mathematics assessment for grades
6 three through eight, provided that nothing herein shall be construed to
7 interfere with required state or federal reporting or to excuse a school
8 district from maintaining or transferring records of such test scores
9 separately from a student's permanent record, including for purposes of
10 required state or federal reporting.
11 2. The commissioner of education shall provide that any test results
12 on a state administered standardized English language arts or mathemat-
13 ics assessment for grades three through eight sent to parents or persons
14 in parental relation to a student include a clear and conspicuous notice
15 that such results will not be included on the student's official tran-
16 script or in the student's permanent record and are being provided to
17 the student and parents for diagnostic purposes.
18 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to
19 the contrary, the English language arts and mathematics state assess-
20 ments for grades three through eight shall not be utilized in any manner
21 to evaluate, grade, or otherwise determine eligibility for advancement
22 in grades of any student.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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