Requires the education department to provide teachers of pupils taking a common core curriculum exam to provide the results of such pupils and pupils statewide

1 Co-sponsor

• George Latimer

BILL NUMBER:S4723

Title of bill

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the provision of the results of examinations assessing students' achievement of the common core curriculum standards

Purpose

To require the education department to provide teachers of their pupils take a common core curriculum exam to provide the results of such pupils and pupils statewide.

Summary of provisions

Section 1- amends the education law by adding a new section 208-b to require that a copy of each graded examination be provided to the teacher who administered the examination.

Section 2- contains the effective date.

Justification

Legislators are routinely hearing from and more teachers, as well as parents, about their concerns regarding state mandated testing in grades 3 through 8. One concern which the Legislature needs to address is the issue of teachers not seeing the graded tests. By contracting with Pearson to create the tests and grade the tests, NYS is missing out on important controls, like teachers seeing the results as to how children performed on individual questions. In order to ensure that a teacher can a teacher help a child improve, and improve themselves, in an area of weakness they must see the results of the test to better understand what a child's, or perhaps their own, weakness is.

Legislative history

New Bill

Fiscal implications

Minimal

Effective date

This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.