California Education Code

§ 51224.7

EDC § 51224.7 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 28 · Ch. 2 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Mathematics Placement Act of 2015.

(b)Governing boards or bodies of local educational agencies that serve pupils entering grade 9 and that have not adopted a fair, objective, and transparent mathematics placement policy, as described in paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, as of January 1, 2016, shall, before the beginning of the 2016–17 school year, develop and adopt, in a regularly scheduled public meeting, a fair, objective, and transparent mathematics placement policy for pupils entering grade 9 that does all of the following:

(1)Systematically takes multiple objective academic measures of pupil performance into consideration. For purposes of this paragraph, “objective academic measures” means measures, such as statewide mathematics assessments, including interim and summative assessments authorized pursuant to Section 60640, placement tests that are aligned to state-adopted content standards in mathematics, classroom assignment and grades, and report cards.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 508, Sec. 2. (SB 359) Effective January 1, 2016.