Bill Text: CA AB409 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil assessment: dual language immersion programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-08-25 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB409 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB409-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 409	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 19, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 14, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to add Section 60640.1 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil assessment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 409, as amended, Alejo. Pupil assessment: dual language
immersion programs.
   Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic
Achievement Act (hereafter the Greene Act), requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to design and implement a
statewide pupil assessment program and requires school districts,
charter schools, and county offices of education to administer to
each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement
tests, including a standards-based achievement test pursuant to the
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program.
   Existing law authorizes a school district, at its option, to
administer to pupils with limited English proficiency who are
enrolled in any of grades 2 to 11, inclusive, a second achievement
test in their primary language.
   This bill would authorize the State Department of Education to
make these primary language assessments available to school districts
and charter schools to assess their nonlimited-English-proficient
 and redesignated fluent-English-proficient  pupils who are
enrolled in a dual language immersion program and would require a
school district or charter school that chooses to administer a
primary language assessment pursuant to this authority to do so at
its own expense  and to enter into an agreement for that purpose
with the state testing contractor, subject to the approval of the
department  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 60640.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   60640.1.  The department may make a primary language assessment
developed pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3) of
subdivision (f) of Section 60640 available to school districts and
charter schools to assess their nonlimited-English-proficient pupils,
as defined in Section 60643,  who   and their
redesignated fluent-English-proficient pupils if those pupils 
are enrolled in a dual language immersion program that includes the
primary language of the assessment. A school district or charter
school that chooses to administer a primary language assessment
pursuant to this section shall do so at its own expense  and
shall enter into an agreement for that purpose with the state testing
contractor, as described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (3) of
subdivision (f) of Section 60640, subject to the approval of the
department. The cost for the assessment shall be the same for all
school districts and charter schools and shall not exceed the
marginal cost of the assessment  .