Bill Text: MI HB6014 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education: examinations; administration of Michigan student test of educational progress (M-STEP) examination; suspend for the 2020-2021 school year. Amends sec. 104c of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1704c) & adds sec. 104g.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-06 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 07/23/2020 [HB6014 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB6014-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6014
July 23, 2020, Introduced by Reps. Stone,
Cherry, Hood, Brenda Carter, Kennedy, Shannon, Bolden, Cynthia Neeley,
Kuppa, Wittenberg, Gay-Dagnogo and Garrett and referred to the Committee on
Education.
A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled
"The state school aid act of 1979,"
by amending section 104c (MCL 388.1704c), as amended by 2019 PA 58, and by adding section 104g.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 104c. (1) In Except as
otherwise provided in this subsection, in order to receive state
aid under this article, a district shall must administer
the state assessments described in this section. However, subject to federal law, a district is not required to
administer the state assessments described in this section in the 2020-2021
school year to receive state aid under this article.
(2) For the purposes of
this section, the department shall develop and administer the Michigan student
test of educational progress (M-STEP) assessments in English language arts and
mathematics. These assessments shall must be aligned to state standards.
(3) For the purposes of
this section, the department shall implement a summative assessment system that
is proven to be valid and reliable for administration to pupils as provided
under this subsection. The summative assessment system must meet all of the
following requirements:
(a) The summative
assessment system must measure student proficiency on the current state
standards, must measure student growth for consecutive grade levels in which
students are assessed in the same subject area in both grade levels, and must
be capable of measuring individual student performance.
(b) The summative
assessments for English language arts and mathematics must be administered to
all public school pupils in grades 3 to 11, including those pupils as required
by the federal individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446,
and by title I of the federal every student succeeds act (ESSA), Public Law
114-95.
(c) The summative
assessments for science must be administered to all public school pupils in at
least grades 5 and 8, including those pupils as required by the federal
individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, and by title I
of the federal every student succeeds act (ESSA), Public Law 114-95.
(d) The summative
assessments for social studies must be administered to all public school pupils
in at least grades 5 and 8, including those pupils as required by the federal
individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, and by title I
of the federal every student succeeds act (ESSA), Public Law 114-95.
(e) The content of the
summative assessments must be aligned to state standards.
(f) The pool of questions
for the summative assessments must be subject to a transparent review process
for quality, bias, and sensitive issues involving educator review and comment.
The department shall post samples from tests or retired tests featuring
questions from this pool for review by the public.
(g) The summative
assessment system must ensure that students, parents, and teachers are provided
with reports that convey individual student proficiency and growth on the
assessment and that convey individual student domain-level performance in each
subject area, including representative questions, and individual student
performance in meeting state standards.
(h) The summative
assessment system must be capable of providing, and the department shall ensure
that students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members are
provided with, reports that convey aggregate student proficiency and growth
data by teacher, grade, school, and district.
(i) The summative
assessment system must ensure the capability of reporting the available data to
support educator evaluations.
(j) The summative
assessment system must ensure that the reports provided to districts containing
individual student data are available within 60 days after completion of the assessments.
(k) The summative
assessment system must ensure that access to individually identifiable student
data meets all of the following:
(i) Is in compliance with 20 USC 1232g, commonly referred to as
the family educational rights and privacy act of 1974.
(ii) Except as may be
provided for in an agreement with a vendor to provide assessment services, as
necessary to support educator evaluations pursuant to under subdivision (i), or for research or
program evaluation purposes, is available only to the student; to the student's
parent or legal guardian; and to a school administrator or teacher, to the
extent that he or she has a legitimate educational interest.
(l) The summative
assessment system must ensure that the assessments are pilot tested before statewide
implementation.
(m) The summative assessment system must ensure that
assessments are designed so that the maximum total combined length of time that
schools are required to set aside for a pupil to answer all test questions on
all assessments that are part of the system for the pupil's grade level does
not exceed that maximum total combined length of time for the previous
statewide assessment system or 9 hours, whichever is less. This subdivision
does not limit the amount of time a district may allow a pupil to complete a
test.
(n) The total cost of executing the summative assessment
system statewide each year, including, but not limited to, the cost of
contracts for administration, scoring, and reporting, must not exceed an amount
equal to 2 times the cost of executing the previous statewide assessment after
adjustment for inflation.
(o) Beginning
with the 2017-2018 school year, the The summative assessment system must not
require more than 3 hours in duration, on average, for an individual pupil to
complete the combined administration of the math and English language arts
portions of the assessment for any 1 grade level.
(p) The summative assessments for English language arts and
mathematics for pupils in grades 8 to 10 must be aligned to the college
entrance test portion of the Michigan merit examination required under section
104b.
(4) The department shall offer benchmark assessments in the
fall and spring of each school year to measure English language arts and
mathematics in each of grades K to 2. Full implementation must occur not later
than the 2019-2020 school year. These assessments are necessary to determine a
pupil's proficiency level before grade 3 and must meet the requirements under
section 104d(4).
(5) This section does not prohibit districts from adopting
interim assessments.
(6) As used in this section, "English language
arts" means that term as defined in section 104b.
Sec. 104g. Subject to federal law, the department shall not require that a district administer the preliminary SAT (PSAT) to pupils in grade 8, 9, or 10 in the 2020-2021 school year and, subject to other requirements under this article for receipt of state aid under this article, a district remains eligible to receive state aid under this article if it does not administer the preliminary SAT (PSAT) to pupils in grade 8, 9, or 10 in the 2020-2021 school year.
