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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2057
Author: Bonilla (D)
Amended: 8/19/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 5-2, 6/18/14
AYES: Liu, Block, Correa, Hancock, Monning
NOES: Wyland, Huff
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-1, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NOES: Gaines
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 57-9, 5/5/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Alternate assessment
SOURCE : State Special Education Local Plan Area
Administrators of
California
DIGEST : This bill requires the California Assessment of
Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) to include the
California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) being
administered in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, in English language
arts and mathematics and in grades 5, 8, and 10 in science,
until successor assessments for those subject matters are
implemented. This bill also requires the Board of Education
(SBE) and the Department of Education (DOE) to submit, no later
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than February 1, 2015, a report to the appropriate committees of
the Legislature, school districts, county offices of education,
and charter schools on the status of the successor alternate
assessments in English language arts and mathematics and
science. This bill, for the 2014-15 school year, requires each
local educational agency to administer the alternate field tests
in a manner determined by DOE in consultation with the president
or executive director of the SBE and requires DOE, with the
approval of the SBE and the Director of Finance, to amend the
assessment contract, as appropriate, to accommodate the
alternate assessment field testing and to allow for any
necessary studies using information collected from the field
tests.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1.Requires, under the federal Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act, students with exceptional needs, to participate
in statewide assessments with appropriate accommodations when
necessary, and requires students who are unable to participate
in the assessments, even with accommodations, to be given an
alternate assessment. The CAPA meets this requirement.
2.Establishes the Measurement of Academic Performance and
Progress to include all of the following:
A. A consortium summative assessment in English language
arts (ELA) and mathematics for grades 3 to 8 and grade 11
that measures the common core standards.
B. Science grade level assessments in grades 5, 8, and 10
that measure the prior science standards until a successor
assessment that is aligned to the Next Generation Science
Standards is implemented.
C. The CAPA in grades 2-11 in ELA and mathematics, and
science in grades 5, 8, and 10 that measure the prior
science standards until a successor assessment that is
aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards is
implemented.
D. The Early Assessment Program.
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E. A primary language assessment.
This bill:
1.Requires the CAASPP to include the CAPA being administered in
grades 2 to 11, inclusive, in ELA and mathematics and in
grades 5, 8, and 10 in science, until successor assessments
for those subject matters are implemented.
2.Requires the SBE and DOE to submit, no later than February 1,
2015, a report to the appropriate committees of the
Legislature, school districts, county offices of education,
and charter schools on the status of the successor alternate
assessments in ELA and mathematics and science.
3.Requires, for the 2014-15 school year, each local educational
agency to administer the alternate field tests in a manner
determined by DOE in consultation with the president or
executive director of the SBE and requires DOE, with the
approval of the SBE and the Director of Finance, to amend the
assessment contract, as appropriate, to accommodate the
alternate assessment field testing and to allow for any
necessary studies using information collected from the field
tests.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
CAPA: Eliminating the ELA and mathematics assessments will
make $1.1 million (General Fund) available to use toward a
consortium alternate performance assessment. (The remaining
$1.1 million allocated to the CAPA in the 2041 Budget Act will
still be used to administer the science assessment).
Up to $70 million in one-time costs to CDE to develop or
contract to develop an alternate performance assessment
aligned to the Common Core Standards.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/11/14)
State Special Education Local Plan Area Administrators of
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California (source)
Advisory Commission on Special Education
California School Boards Association
California State PTA
Coalition for Adequate Funding for Special Education
Community Advisory Committee for Special Education, Mt. Diablo
Unified
School District
Empowered Parents in California Coalition
Los Angeles Unified School District
Solano County Special Education Local Plan Area
Torrance Unified School District
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 57-9, 5/5/14
AYES: Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gray, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine,
Lowenthal, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea,
V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber, Wieckowski,
Wilk, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NOES: Allen, Ch�vez, Conway, Dahle, Donnelly, Grove, Harkey,
Jones, Wagner
NO VOTE RECORDED: Achadjian, Bigelow, Gorell, Hagman, Linder,
Logue, Maienschein, Mansoor, Melendez, Nestande, Olsen,
Patterson, Waldron, Vacancy
PQ:e 8/19/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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