BILL NUMBER: SB 247	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 24, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2013

   An act to add Section 60644 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil assessment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 247, Liu. Pupil assessment: grade 2 diagnostic assessments.
   Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic
Achievement Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
design and implement a statewide pupil assessment program that
includes numerous elements, including, among other things, a plan for
producing valid, reliable, and comparable individual pupil scores in
grades 2 to 11, inclusive. The act also requires school districts,
charter schools, and county offices of education to administer to
each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement
tests, including a standards-based achievement test pursuant to the
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. Existing law makes
all provisions of the act inoperative on July 1, 2014. Assembly Bill
484 of the 2013-14 Regular Session, if enacted, would, among other
things, suspend the STAR Program achievement test for pupils in grade
2 commencing with the 2013-14 school year.
   This bill would require the State Department of Education, by
November 1, 2014, to identify and make available to school districts
information regarding existing assessments in language arts and
mathematics aligned to the adopted common core academic content
standards for pupils in grade 2 for diagnostic use by classroom
teachers. The bill would require the savings realized from the
elimination of the grade 2 standards-based achievement testing to be
used by local educational agencies to administer the identified
assessments. The bill would require the department to ensure that the
selected grade 2 diagnostic assessments are valid for purposes of
identifying particular knowledge or skills a pupil has or has not
acquired, but the assessments would not be valid measures for
purposes of pupil, personnel, or local educational agency
accountability.
   This bill would become operative only if AB 484 of the 2013-14
Regular Session is also enacted and takes effect on or before January
1, 2014.



THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 60644 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   60644.  (a) By November 1, 2014, the department shall identify and
make available to school districts information regarding existing
assessments in language arts and mathematics that are aligned to the
common core academic content standards adopted pursuant to Section
60605.8 and appropriate for pupils in grade 2 for diagnostic use by
classroom teachers. The purpose of these assessments shall be to aid
teachers and to gain information about the developing language arts
and computational skills of pupils in grade 2.
   (b) The savings realized from the elimination of the grade 2
standards-based achievement testing shall be used by local
educational agencies to administer the assessments identified
pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (c) The department shall ensure that the selected grade 2
diagnostic assessments are valid for purposes of identifying
particular knowledge or skills a pupil has or has not acquired in
order to inform instruction and make educational decisions. The
selected grade 2 diagnostic assessments shall not be valid measures
for purposes of pupil, personnel, or local educational agency
accountability.
  SEC. 2.  This act shall become operative only if Assembly Bill 484
of the 2013-14 Regular Session is also enacted and takes effect on or
before January 1, 2014.