SB 247 — PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL INFO

SENATE HEALTH AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL 247 57TH LEGISLATURE -STATEOFNEWMEXICO- FIRST SESSION, 2025 INTRODUCED4 BY Gabriel Ramos and Rebecca Dow 6 8 10 AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS;

REQUIRING REPORTING ON SPECIFIC PERFORMANCESTUDENT ANDDEMOGRAPHIC TREND DATA;

REQUIRING USER-FRIENDLY PUBLICATION ACCESS;ACCESS.

ASSIGNING DUTIES TO e t 17 w l n d 18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PUBLICLEGISLATURE EDUCATIONOF DEPARTMENT.THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

w l n d 18 = = 19 a l BESECTION IT1. ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 22-2C-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003, i a e r 20 SECTIONChapter 1.153, Section 13, as amended) is amended to read:

A new section of the Assessment and a t m m 21 Accountability"22-2C-4. Act, Section 22-2C-14 NMSA 1978, is enacted to d r e 22 read:

STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY d r e 22 SYSTEM--INDICATORS--REQUIRED ASSESSMENTS--ALTERNATIVE c e s k 23 "22-2C-14.ASSESSMENTS--LIMITS ON ALTERNATIVES TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE READING e a n b 24 ASSESSMENTS.-- u [ A.

[NEWThe MATERIAL]department SUMMATIVEshall ASSESSMENTS--establish e a nstatewide b.231053.2 24SHPAC/SB PUBLICATION247 DEADLINE--REQUIREMENTS--PERFORMANCEassessment ANDand TRENDS.--accountability usystem [ For the purposes of this section, "summative assessment" means .229501.2 a department-approved assessment that is aaligned singlewith measure of student performance at the endstate ofacademic acontent gradeand band.performance standards.

The department shall publish the results of the summative assessments for science, mathematics and English language arts.

In publishing these summative assessment results, the department shall:

A.

publish the results provided for in this section no later than September 1 of each calendar year;

atThe aacademic minimum,assessment includeprogram theshall followingtest data:student achievement as follows:

(1) thefor overallgrades statewidethree performancethrough eight and trends for studentsgrade acrosseleven, allstandards-based gradeassessments levels;in mathematics, reading and language arts;

and (2) subgroupfor performancegrades datathree thatthrough iseight, disaggregateda bystandards-based studentwriting demographicsassessment andwith isthe brokenwriting downassessment byscoring gradecriteria level,applied including:to the extended response writing portions of the language arts standards-based assessments;

and (3) for one of grades three through five and six through eight and for grade eleven, standards-based assessments in science by the 2007-2008 school year.

C.

The department shall involve appropriate licensed school employees in the development of the standards- e t 17 based assessments.

w l n d 18 D.

Before August 5 of each year, the department = = 19 shall provide student scores on all standards-based assessments a l i a e r 20 taken during the prior school year and required in Subsection B a t m m 21 of this section to students' respective school districts in d r e 22 order to make test score data available to assist school c e s k 23 district staff with appropriate grade-level and other placement e a n b 24 for the current school year.

u [ E.

Before September 1 of each year, the department .231053.2 - 2 - SHPAC/SB 247 shall publish the results of the standards-based assessments required in Subsection B of this section in an easily accessible and user-friendly format through a website or web page managed and regularly maintained by the department.

At a minimum, the results shall include:

(1) the proficiency rates for each tested subject and grade reported by statewide, district and school level performance;

and (2) the proficiency rates for each tested subject and grade reported by statewide, district and school level performance, disaggregated by student demographics, including:

(b) ethnicity;gender;

(c) socioeconomicethnicity; status;

e t 17 (d) specialtribal educationaffiliation; status;

ande wt l17 n d 18 (e) performancesocioeconomic datastatus; broken down by = = 19 a l grade and subject for each school;

and iw al en rd 2018 C.(f) special education status.

publish= the= results19 in[E.] anF. easily accessible, a t m m 21 user-friendly format through a website or web page managed and d r e 22 regularly maintained by the department and provide links to the c e s k 23 website or web page on the home page of the department's e a n b 24 primary website." u [ SECTION 2.

EFFECTIVEAll DATE.--Thestudents effectiveshall dateparticipate ofin the .229501.2a -l 2i -a provisionse ofr this20 actacademic isassessment Julyprogram. 1, 2025.

-The 3department -shall 4adopt 6a 8t 10m 12m 1421 16standards efor treasonable 17accommodations win lstandards-based n d 18r =e =22 19assessments afor lstudents iwith adisabilities eand rlimited 20English ac te ms mk 2123 dproficiency, rincluding ewhen 22and chow eaccommodations smay kbe 23 e a n b 24 uapplied. [ .229501.2

The legislative education study committee shall u [ review the standards prior to adoption by the department.

.231053.2 - 3 - SHPAC/SB 247 [F.] G.

Students who have been determined to be limited English proficient may be allowed to take the standards-based assessment in their primary language.

A student who has attended school for three consecutive years in the United States shall participate in the English language reading assessment unless granted a waiver by the department based on criteria established by the department.

An English language reading assessment waiver may be granted only for a maximum of two additional years and only on a case-by-case basis." SECTION 2.

EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2025.