Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary STATE GOVERNMENTEXPENDITURESGeneral FundFY26-27$19,500FY27-28$19,500 OTHER FISCAL IMPACT For local education agencies and public charter schools that are currently paying to use a reading screener and that will be required to start administering the state-provided reading screener provided at no cost, a decrease in local expenditures will occur, the extent of which cannot be reasonably determined. Bill Summary This bill requires each public school, including public charter schools, to annually submit to the department of education, or a form developed by the department, a list of all local assessments administered to the students enrolled in the public school each school year, and the schedule for when each such local assessment is administered. The full text of this bill specifies information that must be included for each reported local assessment. For purposes of this bill, "local assessment" means a standardized test or assessment selected by an LEA or public school that is administered to students at the sole direction of the LEA or public school. This bill specifies that the following are not a local assessment: (1) A TCAP test or any other standardized assessment or screener administered to students by an LEA or public school pursuant to state law or any rule of the state board of education or the department of education; or (2) An assessment, test, assignment, project, or quiz that is administered only to students in certain classrooms at the direction of the classroom teacher for purposes of assessing student proficiency in a subject, branch of a subject, or in the curricula or instructional materials assigned to students in the classroom. This bill requires the department to compile the local assessment information reported by public schools and make the information available to the public
