BILL ANALYSIS �
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 2001 (Bonilla)
As Amended May 25, 2012
Majority vote
EDUCATION 11-0 APPROPRIATIONS 17-0
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|Ayes:|Brownley, Norby, Ammiano, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey, |
| |Buchanan, Butler, Carter, | |Blumenfield, Bradford, |
| |Eng, Grove, Halderman, | |Charles Calderon, Campos, |
| |Wagner, Williams | |Davis, Donnelly, Gatto, |
| | | |Ammiano, Hill, Lara, |
| | | |Mitchell, Nielsen, Norby, |
| | | |Solorio, Wagner |
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SUMMARY : Establishes processes to address specified issues
related the statewide pupil assessment program. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Expresses the intent of the Legislature that the
reauthorization of the statewide pupil assessment program
include:
a) A plan to bring together K-12 and public and private
postsecondary policy leaders to develop criteria and
develop pathways to align middle and high school
assessments with college and career readiness and equate
specified grade 11 assessments with college admission
tests; and,
b) A plan for transitioning to a system of high-quality
assessments that has tangible meaning to middle and high
school pupils.
2)Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), in
consultation with the State Board of Education (SBE), the
segments of public and private higher education, career
technical and technical training institutions, school
administrators, teachers, school district governing board
members, pupil representatives, and parents, to develop a plan
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and make recommendations to strengthen the alignment between
state-mandated middle and high school assessments and the
entry requirements of public and private colleges and
universities and postsecondary career and technical training
institutions.
3)Requires the SPI, in consultation with the SBE, school
administrators, teachers, school district governing board
members, pupil representatives, and parents, to develop
multiple methods to provide for pupil recognition, rewards,
and incentives that a local education agency may adopt.
4)Requires the SPI to present recommendations to the SBE by May
30, 2013.
5)Requires the SBE to hold two public hearings on the
recommendations and to adopt or modify and adopt the
recommendations by September 30, 2013.
6)Requires the SPI and SBE to present a schedule and
implementation plan that meet the intent of this bill to the
Governor and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of
the Legislature.
7)Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to use
federal Title VI carryover funds to implement the requirements
of the bill.
EXISTING LAW establishes the Leroy Greene California Assessment
of Academic Achievement Act (Greene Act), to provide a statewide
pupil assessment program. The Greene Act will become
inoperative July 1, 2014. Existing law also establishes a
process and timeline for the reauthorization of the pupil
assessment program and to align the new assessments with the
common core standards developed by the Common Core State
Standards Initiative consortium.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, one-time costs, likely between $400,000 and $500,000,
to complete the planning requirements of this measure. This
bill requires the CDE to use federal Title VI funds to complete
this study.
COMMENTS : This bill addresses issues related to the use of
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middle and high school assessments after the statewide
assessment program has been revised and reauthorized in two
areas:
1)Strengthening the relevance of assessments to entry
requirements to postsecondary education and career-technical
institutions.
2)Making the assessments more meaningful to pupils in grades 7
to 12.
According to the author, "With the imminent adoption of
California's future generation of statewide assessments, the
state must also identify a visionary plan that utilizes
assessments effectively, not only for school accountability but
to ensure these assessments have real meaning to individual
secondary students."
Related legislation . SB 1 X5 (Steinberg), Chapter 2, Statutes
of 2009-10 Fifth Extraordinary Session, created the Curriculum
Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to develop and
recommend academic content standards in language arts and
mathematics with at least 85% of those standards consisting of
the common core state standards for each subject.
AB 250 (Brownley), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2011, renamed the
commission the Instructional Quality Commission and expanded its
role to include recommendations regarding the policies and
activities needed to align the state's curriculum frameworks,
instructional materials, professional development programs,
pupil assessments, and academic accountability systems with the
new standards.
AB 1521 (Brownley), currently pending in the Senate, eliminates
testing under the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
Program in grade 9 for English language arts (ELA) and
end-of-course assessments in Integrated Math 1-3 and
Integrated/Coordinated Science 1-4.
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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