102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB5149

 

Introduced 1/27/2022, by Rep. Jackie Haas

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a-5

    Amends the School Code. Prohibits the State Board of Education from taking any action that requires students enrolled in grades 3 through 8 to take the annual assessment or any part of the annual assessment in English language arts and mathematics more than once per school year. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
52-3.64a-5 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a-5)
7    Sec. 2-3.64a-5. State goals and assessment.
8    (a) For the assessment and accountability purposes of this
9Section, "students" includes those students enrolled in a
10public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school,
11or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
12board of control, a charter school operating in compliance
13with the Charter Schools Law, a school operated by a regional
14office of education under Section 13A-3 of this Code, or a
15public school administered by a local public agency or the
16Department of Human Services.
17    (b) The State Board of Education shall establish the
18academic standards that are to be applicable to students who
19are subject to State assessments under this Section. The State
20Board of Education shall not establish any such standards in
21final form without first providing opportunities for public
22participation and local input in the development of the final
23academic standards. Those opportunities shall include a

 

 

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1well-publicized period of public comment and opportunities to
2file written comments.
3    (c) Beginning no later than the 2014-2015 school year, the
4State Board of Education shall annually assess all students
5enrolled in grades 3 through 8 in English language arts and
6mathematics. The State Board of Education may not take any
7action that requires students to take this assessment or any
8part of this assessment more than once per school year.
9    Beginning no later than the 2017-2018 school year, the
10State Board of Education shall annually assess all students in
11science at one grade in grades 3 through 5, at one grade in
12grades 6 through 8, and at one grade in grades 9 through 12.
13    The State Board of Education shall annually assess schools
14that operate a secondary education program, as defined in
15Section 22-22 of this Code, in English language arts and
16mathematics. The State Board of Education shall administer no
17more than 3 assessments, per student, of English language arts
18and mathematics for students in a secondary education program.
19One of these assessments shall be recognized by this State's
20public institutions of higher education, as defined in the
21Board of Higher Education Act, for the purpose of student
22application or admissions consideration. The assessment
23administered by the State Board of Education for the purpose
24of student application to or admissions consideration by
25institutions of higher education must be administered on a
26school day during regular student attendance hours.

 

 

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1    Students who do not take the State's final accountability
2assessment or its approved alternate assessment may not
3receive a regular high school diploma unless the student is
4exempted from taking the State assessments under subsection
5(d) of this Section because the student is enrolled in a
6program of adult and continuing education, as defined in the
7Adult Education Act, or the student is identified by the State
8Board of Education, through rules, as being exempt from the
9assessment.
10    The State Board of Education shall not assess students
11under this Section in subjects not required by this Section.
12    Districts shall inform their students of the timelines and
13procedures applicable to their participation in every yearly
14administration of the State assessments. The State Board of
15Education shall establish periods of time in each school year
16during which State assessments shall occur to meet the
17objectives of this Section.
18    The requirements of this subsection do not apply if the
19State Board of Education has received a waiver from the
20administration of assessments from the U.S. Department of
21Education.
22    (d) Every individualized educational program as described
23in Article 14 shall identify if the State assessment or
24components thereof require accommodation for the student. The
25State Board of Education shall develop rules governing the
26administration of an alternate assessment that may be

 

 

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1available to students for whom participation in this State's
2regular assessments is not appropriate, even with
3accommodations as allowed under this Section.
4    Students receiving special education services whose
5individualized educational programs identify them as eligible
6for the alternative State assessments nevertheless shall have
7the option of also taking this State's regular final
8accountability assessment, which shall be administered in
9accordance with the eligible accommodations appropriate for
10meeting these students' respective needs.
11    All students determined to be English learners shall
12participate in the State assessments. The scores of those
13students who have been enrolled in schools in the United
14States for less than 12 months may not be used for the purposes
15of accountability. Any student determined to be an English
16learner shall receive appropriate assessment accommodations,
17including language supports, which shall be established by
18rule. Approved assessment accommodations must be provided
19until the student's English language skills develop to the
20extent that the student is no longer considered to be an
21English learner, as demonstrated through a State-identified
22English language proficiency assessment.
23    (e) The results or scores of each assessment taken under
24this Section shall be made available to the parents of each
25student.
26    In each school year, the scores attained by a student on

 

 

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1the final accountability assessment must be placed in the
2student's permanent record pursuant to rules that the State
3Board of Education shall adopt for that purpose in accordance
4with Section 3 of the Illinois School Student Records Act. In
5each school year, the scores attained by a student on the State
6assessments administered in grades 3 through 8 must be placed
7in the student's temporary record.
8    (f) All schools shall administer the State's academic
9assessment of English language proficiency to all children
10determined to be English learners.
11    (g) All schools in this State that are part of the sample
12drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics, in
13collaboration with their school districts and the State Board
14of Education, shall administer the academic assessments under
15the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out
16under Section 411(b)(2) of the federal National Education
17Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 9010) if the U.S. Secretary
18of Education pays the costs of administering the assessments.
19    (h) (Blank).
20    (i) For the purposes of this subsection (i), "academically
21based assessments" means assessments consisting of questions
22and answers that are measurable and quantifiable to measure
23the knowledge, skills, and ability of students in the subject
24matters covered by the assessments. All assessments
25administered pursuant to this Section must be academically
26based assessments. The scoring of academically based

 

 

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1assessments shall be reliable, valid, and fair and shall meet
2the guidelines for assessment development and use prescribed
3by the American Psychological Association, the National
4Council on Measurement in Education, and the American
5Educational Research Association.
6    The State Board of Education shall review the use of all
7assessment item types in order to ensure that they are valid
8and reliable indicators of student performance aligned to the
9learning standards being assessed and that the development,
10administration, and scoring of these item types are
11justifiable in terms of cost.
12    (j) The State Superintendent of Education shall appoint a
13committee of no more than 21 members, consisting of parents,
14teachers, school administrators, school board members,
15assessment experts, regional superintendents of schools, and
16citizens, to review the State assessments administered by the
17State Board of Education. The Committee shall select one of
18its members as its chairperson. The Committee shall meet on an
19ongoing basis to review the content and design of the
20assessments (including whether the requirements of subsection
21(i) of this Section have been met), the time and money expended
22at the local and State levels to prepare for and administer the
23assessments, the collective results of the assessments as
24measured against the stated purpose of assessing student
25performance, and other issues involving the assessments
26identified by the Committee. The Committee shall make periodic

 

 

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1recommendations to the State Superintendent of Education and
2the General Assembly concerning the assessments.
3    (k) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
4implement this Section.
5(Source: P.A. 100-7, eff. 7-1-17; 100-222, eff. 8-18-17;
6100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1046, eff. 8-23-18; 101-643, eff.
76-18-20.)
 
8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9becoming law.