STATE OF NEW JERSEY
218th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman MILA M. JASEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Space
SYNOPSIS
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning the administration of certain assessments and supplementing chapter 7C of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in this act, "PARCC assessment" means the assessments developed by the consortium of states known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
2. No later than the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year, each school district or charter school shall establish a procedure for a parent or guardian of a public school student to provide written notification that the student will not participate in the administration of a PARCC assessment. A parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school district or charter school shall provide written notification no later than 14 days prior to the administration of a PARCC assessment stating that the PARCC assessment is not to be administered to the student.
3. In the case of a student who does not participate in the administration of a PARCC assessment pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of this act, a school district or charter school shall provide educationally appropriate ungraded alternative activities, or allow the student to engage in supervised reading or other self-directed work, during the time in which the assessment is being administered. Any such activity shall not occur in the same room in which the assessment is being administered. In the event that a student's regularly scheduled class is in session during the administration of a PARCC assessment, then the student shall be allowed to attend that class.
4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to exempt a student from the graduation requirements established pursuant to P.L.1979, c.241 (C.18A:7C-1 et seq.).
5. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill allows a parent or guardian of a student to provide written notification to a school district or charter school that the student will not participate in the administration of an assessment developed by the consortium of states known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC assessments). The parent or guardian would be required to provide written notification no later than 14 days before the administration of a PARCC assessment that the assessment is not to be administered to the student.
A school district or charter school would be required to provide educationally appropriate ungraded alternative activities for a student who, under the bill, is not participating in the administration of a PARCC assessment, or allow the student to engage in supervised reading or other self-directed work. Any such activity must occur in a room other than the room in which the assessment is being administered. In the event that a student's regularly scheduled class is in session during the administration of a PARCC assessment, then the student would be allowed to attend that class.
Nothing in the bill is to be construed to exempt a student from any high school graduation requirement established under current law.