Senate File 2040 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2040 BY SINCLAIR , SCHULTZ , SHIPLEY , ROZENBOOM , BEHN , DVORSKY , KRAAYENBRINK , CHELGREN , GUTH , GARRETT , BREITBACH , JOHNSON , ANDERSON , ZAUN , KINNEY , BOLKCOM , FEENSTRA , COSTELLO , SEGEBART , BISIGNANO , BERTRAND , CHAPMAN , KAPUCIAN , and BOWMAN A BILL FOR An Act relating to statewide assessments of student progress 1 utilizing core academic indicators and including effective 2 date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5441XS (3) 86 kh/rj

S.F. 2040 Section 1. Section 256.7, subsection 21, paragraph b, 1 subparagraphs (2) and (3), Code 2016, are amended by striking 2 the subparagraphs. 3 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being deemed of 4 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 5 EXPLANATION 6 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 7 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 8 Current law requires that the state board of education 9 provide in rule for a set of core academic indicators in 10 mathematics and reading in grades 4, 8, and 11, and for science 11 in grades 8 and 11, and that the Iowa assessments, used by 12 school districts in the school year beginning July 1, 2011, be 13 used for this purpose. 14 This bill strikes a requirement that the state board’s rules 15 provide that for the school year beginning July 1, 2016, and 16 each succeeding school year, all students enrolled in school 17 districts in grades 3 through 11 shall be administered an 18 assessment during the last quarter of the school year that 19 assesses student progress on the core academic indicators. 20 The provision also requires that the assessment used after 21 July 1, 2016, at a minimum be aligned with the Iowa common 22 core standards in both content and rigor; accurately describe 23 student achievement and growth for purposes of the school, the 24 school district, and state accountability systems; and provide 25 valid, reliable, and fair measures of student progress toward 26 college or career readiness. 27 The bill also strikes a Code provision that requires the 28 director of the department of education to establish an 29 assessment task force to review and make recommendations 30 for a statewide assessment of student progress on the core 31 academic indicators. The Iowa assessment task force submitted 32 its findings and recommendations in a report to the general 33 assembly on December 31, 2014. 34 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 35 -1- LSB 5441XS (3) 86 kh/rj 1/ 1