New York A 9392: Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency

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A09392 Summary:

BILL NOA09392 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORButtenschon

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COSPNSRColton, Sayegh, Cruz, Reyes

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §305, Ed L

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Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency; directs the committee to submit a proposal to the board of regents.

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BILL NOA09392 

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12/19/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9392

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 December 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, COLTON, SAYEGH, CRUZ, REYES -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to creating a committee
 to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and ways to
 increase the test's transparency

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

 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
 3 57. a. The board of regents is authorized and directed to establish a
 4 committee to research and develop ways to reduce the length of standard-
 5 ized tests administered to students between kindergarten and the eighth
 6 grade and ways to increase the test's transparency. The committee shall
 7 review how the test's transparency would impact students' privacy,
 8 including, but not limited to: (i) what data is being collected; (ii)
 9 how the data is being collected; (iii) who is collecting the data; (iv)
 10 where is the data being stored; and (v) why the data is being used.
 11 b. Along with any recommendations made by the committee, the subse-
 12 quent criteria shall be followed by the state education department
 13 and/or school districts:
 14 (1) any standardized test administered to students between kindergar-
 15 ten and eighth grade shall be released publicly on the New York state
 16 education department's website within ten days of the scores being
 17 released;
 18 (2) the release of test scores shall occur within ten days of the
 19 tests being graded; and
 20 (3) parents shall be notified within thirty days of any district-wide
 21 standardized test planned to be administered, along with the test's
 22 make-up dates. This includes any operational test as well as field
 23 tests.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14295-01-5

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 1 c. The committee shall be made up entirely of New York state certified
 2 educators who reside in this state.
 3 d. The committee shall create a proposal and present it to the board
 4 of regents within a year of the committee's creation.
 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the twentieth day after it shall
 6 have become a law.

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