Senate Study Bill 1171
SENATE FILE
BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
EDUCATION BILL BY
CHAIRPERSON BOETTGER)
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to a statewide program of educational assessment
2 reporting for public school grades three through eleven.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. Section 256.7, subsection 21, unnumbered
1 2 paragraph 1, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 Develop and adopt rules by July 1, 1999, incorporating
1 4 accountability for, and reporting of, student achievement into
1 5 the standards and accreditation process described in section
1 6 256.11. The rules shall provide for all of the following:
1 7 Sec. 2. Section 256.9, Code 2003, is amended by adding the
1 8 following new subsection:
1 9 NEW SUBSECTION. 52. Develop and implement a statewide
1 10 program of educational assessment reporting in consultation
1 11 with school districts and the Iowa testing program of the
1 12 college of education of the state university of Iowa. The
1 13 director shall provide information needed to improve public
1 14 schools by collecting and disseminating data and information
1 15 resulting from assessments made of public school students, to
1 16 aid in the development and evaluation of educational programs
1 17 and policies by school districts, and to inform parents of the
1 18 educational progress of their children in the public schools.
1 19 Information collected under the department's statewide program
1 20 of educational assessment reporting shall be utilized as part
1 21 of the state report card on school performance and on
1 22 statewide progress by the state in accordance with
1 23 implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of
1 24 2001, Pub. L. No. 107=110.
1 25 a. Not later than July 1, 2004, the department shall
1 26 maintain an internet site that reports the following:
1 27 (1) Iowa tests of basic skills scores for each school
1 28 district that administers the test and for each attendance
1 29 center within the school district for grades three through
1 30 eight. Each school district administering the Iowa test of
1 31 basic skills shall provide a report to the department relating
1 32 to each attendance center's test score averages and a
1 33 longitudinal analysis chart.
1 34 The report shall contain attendance=center=level test
1 35 results for the Iowa test of basic skills in the areas of
2 1 reading, expression, qualitative thinking, literary materials,
2 2 social studies, and science. The report shall include, but
2 3 shall not be limited to the number of students tested, the
2 4 number of test results used to compute the averages, average
2 5 standard score, and the corresponding grade equivalent score,
2 6 average stanine score for the group, and the average normal
2 7 curve equivalent, percentile ranks based on student norms, and
2 8 student norms.
2 9 The longitudinal analysis chart shall use the growth scores
2 10 of the same group each year using available reading,
2 11 mathematics, and science scores. The district shall develop a
2 12 chart that provides grade equivalent scores for grades three
2 13 through eight and gains between consecutive pairs of grades
2 14 for each attendance center and provides for a districtwide
2 15 study of grade equivalent scores.
2 16 (2) Iowa test of educational development scores for each
2 17 school district that administers the test and for each
2 18 attendance center within the school district for grades nine
2 19 through eleven. Each school district administering the Iowa
2 20 test of educational development shall provide a report to the
2 21 department relating to each attendance center's test score
2 22 averages.
2 23 b. Scores required to be reported under paragraph "a",
2 24 subparagraphs (1) and (2), shall be presented in percentiles
2 25 that allow for comparisons between participating students.
2 26 The internet site shall include background information
2 27 regarding the tests, including guidance for interpreting test
2 28 scores and the number of students that did not participate in
2 29 the tests and the reasons the students did not participate.
2 30 Sec. 3. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance
2 31 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
2 32 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
2 33 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
2 34 received by the school district under section 257.16. This
2 35 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
3 1 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section
3 2 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
3 3 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
3 4 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
3 5 EXPLANATION
3 6 This bill requires the state board of education to
3 7 incorporate the reporting of student achievement into the
3 8 standards and accreditation process, requires the director of
3 9 the department of education to develop and implement a
3 10 statewide program of educational assessment reporting in
3 11 consultation with school districts and the Iowa testing
3 12 program, and requires the director to develop and maintain an
3 13 internet site to report, by July 1, 2004, assessment reports
3 14 and longitudinal growth analysis charts that the bill requires
3 15 school districts to submit to the director.
3 16 The reports required under the bill to be posted on the
3 17 department's web page by July 1, 2004, include the Iowa tests
3 18 of basic skills scores for grades three through eight and the
3 19 Iowa test of educational development for grades nine through
3 20 11. Each school district administering the Iowa test of basic
3 21 skills must provide a report to the department relating to
3 22 each attendance center's test score averages and a
3 23 longitudinal analysis chart.
3 24 The bill specifies the information each report and
3 25 longitudinal analysis chart must contain or use and how it
3 26 shall be presented. The bill requires that the internet site
3 27 include background information regarding the tests, including
3 28 guidance for interpreting test scores and the number of
3 29 students that did not participate in the tests and the reasons
3 30 the students did not participate.
3 31 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
3 32 section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any
3 33 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
3 34 district from state school foundation aid received by the
3 35 school district under Code section 257.16. The specification
4 1 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
4 2 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
4 3 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
4 4 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
4 5 state mandates included in the bill.
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