House Study Bill 578 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BILL BY CHAIRPERSON ROGERS) A BILL FOR An Act relating to statewide assessments of student progress 1 for purposes of core academic indicators, and including 2 effective date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5731YC (5) 87 kh/rj

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 256.7, subsection 21, paragraph b, 1 subparagraph (1), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows: 2 (1) Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection shall specify 3 that the approved district-wide statewide assessment of student 4 progress administered by school districts for purposes of the 5 core academic indicators shall be the assessment utilized by 6 school districts statewide in the school year beginning July 7 1, 2011, or a successor assessment approved by the state board 8 for school years beginning on or after July 1, 2018 assessment 9 developed by the Iowa testing program within the university of 10 Iowa college of education and administered by the Iowa testing 11 program’s designee . 12 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 13 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 14 EXPLANATION 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 16 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 17 This bill directs the state board of education to adopt rules 18 specifying that the statewide assessment of student progress 19 administered by school districts for purposes of the core 20 academic indicators shall be the assessment developed by the 21 Iowa testing program within the university of Iowa college 22 of education and administered by the Iowa testing program’s 23 designee. The bill strikes language providing that the 24 successor assessment for school years beginning July 1, 2018, 25 be approved by the state board. 26 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 27 -1- LSB 5731YC (5) 87 kh/rj 1/ 1