An Act To Delay Any New Statewide Assessment Test
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 1459
Committee Amendment CA_A_H553 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §13705

SECOND REGULAR S~S)ON 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·A" to H.P. 1000, L.D. 1459, Bill, "An Act To 
Delay Any New Statewide Assessment Test" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Clarify the Use of Student Data from the Statewide Assessment Test' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and 
inserting the following: 
'Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §13705, first,, as amended by PL 2015, c. 18, §1, is further 
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amended to read: 
The requirements of this chapter apply to all school administrative units beginning in 
the 2Qle 2917 2017-2018 school year. In the 2014-2015 school year, each unit shall 
develop a system that meets the standards of this chapter, in collaboration with teachers, 
principals, administrators, school board members, parents and other members of the 
public. In the 2015-2016 school year, each unit shall operate as a pilot project the system 
developed in the fJH0f 2014-2015 school year by applying it in one or more of the schools 
in the unit or by applying it without using results in any official manner or shall employ 
other means to provide information to enable the unit to adjust the system prior to the first 
year of full implementation. In the 2016-2017 school year, each unit shall operate as a 
pilot project the system developed in the 2014-2015 school year by applying it to all of 
the schools and applicable staff in the unit. At the end of the 2016-2017 school year, 
units may modify the system approved in the 2015-2016 school year. The modified 
system must meet the standards of this chapter. Nothing in this section prohibits a unit 
from fully implementing the system earlier than the Wle 2917 2017-2018 school year. 
Sec. 2. Delay using measurements of student learning and growth in the 
performance evaluation and professional growth system. Prior to the 2017-2018 
school year, the Commissioner of Education may not require a school administrative unit 
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to implement the measurements of student learning and growth as part of the performance 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
ROFS 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,A,, to H.P. 1000, L.D. 1459 
evaluation and professional growth system established pursuant to the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 508. 
Sec. 3. 
Delay using statewide assessment data of student academic 
achievement in school performance grading system. Notwithstanding the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 222 or any other provision of law, prior to the 2017 -
2018 school year, neither the Department of Education nor any other state agency may 
use statewide assessment data of student academic achievement as part of a system to 
evaluate or rate the performance of public schools in the State that is similar to or 
different from the school performance grading system developed by the Department of 
Education and introduced on May 1, 2013. 
Nothing in this section may be construed to prevent or inhibit the Department of 
Education from providing an annual report of the results of the state assessment program 
required by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 6204 to meet the federal 
statutes and regulations pertaining to student assessment as required by the federal No 
Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 20 United States Code, Chapter 70 and the federal Every 
Student Succeeds Act of 2015, 20 United States Code, Chapter 70.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment strikes and replaces the bill to delay until the 2017-2018 school year 
the requirement that school administrative units fully implement the performance 
evaluation and professional growth system established pursuant to the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 508 to measure educator effectiveness. The amendment 
provides that, during the 2016-2017 school year, each unit must operate and apply a pilot 
project to all of the schools and applicable staff in the unit. The amendment delays the 
use of statewide student assessment data as part of the performance evaluation and 
professional growth system to measure educator effectiveness. The amendment also 
delays until the 2017-2018 school year the use of statewide assessment data of student 
academic achievement as part of a system to evaluate or rate the performance of public 
schools in the State that is similar to or different from the school performance grading 
system developed by the Department of Education and introduced on May 1, 2013. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Revised: 03/03/16 feat:! 
LD 1459 
LR2213(02) 
An Act To Delay Any New Statewide Assessment Test 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ~' { \-\-55 3J 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Pilot Project expanded - School Administrative Units 
Requiring those local school administrative units (SAU's) that operated a pilot project related to the development and 
implemention of a performance evaluation and professional growth system for educators in school year 2015-2016 in 
one or more of the schools in the unit to operate the pilot project in all of the schools in the unit if the SAU chooses to 
operate the pilot project for a second year will not have a fiscal impact to the State or the Department of Education. 
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