New York A 548: Provides for accountability in state assessments to determine graduation, grade promotion or adequate yearly progress

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A00548 Summary:

BILL NOA00548 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRBenedetto

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Provides for accountability in state assessments by creating a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation and adequate yearly progress by requiring a written report, implementation of an auditing and review of pilot and/or field testing of the standardized tests used to ensure validity, reliability, alignment to standards and appropriateness of use.

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BILL NOA00548 

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01/08/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 548

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BENEDETTO -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to require annual reports and create a regents review board to
 audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation or
 adequate yearly progress for validity, reliability, alignment to stan-
 dards and appropriateness of use

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Reporting requirements. 1. (a) Not later than September
 2 fifteenth of each year, the commissioner of education shall submit to
 3 the state board of regents, the temporary president of the senate and
 4 the speaker of the assembly:
 5 (i) A written report that conclusively demonstrates the validity,
 6 reliability, alignment to the state learning standards established by
 7 the department of education (learning standards) and appropriateness of
 8 use for its intended purposes for each assessment (noting each instru-
 9 ment and the dates of usage) used by the department of education to
 10 determine a student's eligibility for a high school diploma, promotion
 11 to grade, or measurement of adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the
 12 federal No Child Left Behind Act of a school or district in the preced-
 13 ing school year. Demonstration of assessment validity, reliability,
 14 alignment to learning standards and appropriateness of use must be made
 15 in accordance with applicable professional assessment guidelines and
 16 standards of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the
 17 American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Council on
 18 Measurement in Education (NCME) (collectively and as may be modified
 19 from time to time, the joint standards), including pedagogic and curric-
 20 ular, as well as psychometric, standards.
 21 (ii) A technical manual for each assessment used by the department of
 22 education and used to determine a student's eligibility for a high

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01995-01-5

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 1 school diploma, promotion to grade, or measurement of AYP of a school or
 2 district in the preceding school year. The technical manual must comply
 3 with the professional requirements of the assessment industry as recog-
 4 nized by the AERA, APA and NCME.
 5 (b) The annual report and technical manual shall be made available to
 6 the public upon submission to the state board of regents and to the
 7 temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
 8 2. Failure of the commissioner of education to produce a report under
 9 subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section or
 10 a technical manual under subparagraph (ii) of such paragraph for any
 11 given assessment shall be deemed a failure to demonstrate the validity,
 12 reliability, alignment to learning standards and appropriateness of use
 13 of such assessment, and the results from such assessment shall not be
 14 used to determine a student's eligibility for a high school diploma,
 15 promotion to grade, or measurement of AYP of a school or district in the
 16 preceding school year. The commissioner of education shall substitute an
 17 alternate measure for the decision taken on the basis of the adminis-