PARCC tests would not be used to measure students, teachers under Assembly bill

By Adam Clark, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

TRENTON — Performance on the new state test for New Jersey students in grades 3-11 would not be used to evaluate students or their teachers under a bill passed today by the Assembly Education Committee.

The bill (A4190) would cover the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) a period of three years beginning with the 2015-16 school year. The bill would not allow the tests to be used in the evaluation of teachers or to determine student placement, promotion or graduation.

The test already will not be used to assess students for those purposes during the 2014-15 school year because results won’t be available until the fall. It also will not be required for graduation until 2019. However, it will be used as a 10 percent weight in some teachers’ evaluations for 2014-15, a fact union leaders have decried.

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