Full Text of HR1005 94th General Assembly
HR1005 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Standards Achievement Test, which | 3 |
| scores are critical to Illinois' compliance with the federal No | 4 |
| Child Left Behind Act of 2001, is being delivered late to | 5 |
| school districts across Illinois and with incomplete or | 6 |
| incorrect testing documents; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | 8 |
| requires all states to measure each public school's and | 9 |
| district's achievement and establish annual achievement | 10 |
| targets for the state to show adequate yearly progress; and
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| WHEREAS, Adequate yearly progress calculations in Illinois | 12 |
| are now based on three factors: (1) the percentage of reading | 13 |
| and mathematics scores that meet or exceed standards, compared | 14 |
| to the annual State targets; (2) the participation rate of | 15 |
| students in taking the State tests, which must meet or exceed | 16 |
| 95%; and (3) the attendance rates of students in elementary and | 17 |
| middle schools and the graduation rates of students in high | 18 |
| schools, which must meet or exceed the State's annual targets; | 19 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Standards Achievement Test is | 21 |
| scheduled to be administered in all school districts between | 22 |
| March 6 and March 24 for students in grades 3 through 8 in | 23 |
| reading and mathematics and for students in grades 4 and 7 in | 24 |
| science; and
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| WHEREAS, The State Board of Education entered into a new | 26 |
| contract with assessment vendor Harcourt Assessment, Inc. in | 27 |
| 2005 to administer the standardized test for the State of | 28 |
| Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Harcourt Assessment, Inc. has not adequately | 30 |
| performed its contractual duties for the State of Illinois, |
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| jeopardizing the validity of the State standardized test | 2 |
| because of multiple problems with timely delivery and the | 3 |
| accuracy of testing documents; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 |
| we request the State Superintendent of Education to attend a | 7 |
| joint hearing of the House Elementary and Secondary Education | 8 |
| Committee and the House Elementary and Secondary Education | 9 |
| Appropriation Committee to (1) produce the RFP request, with | 10 |
| all subsequent responses from interested parties, e-mails, | 11 |
| correspondence, and all other information concerning the | 12 |
| procurement of Harcourt Assessment, Inc.; (2) outline how the | 13 |
| contract with Harcourt Assessment, Inc. was derived; (3) | 14 |
| explain all provisions of the contract, in conjunction with the | 15 |
| State Board of Education's expectations for compliance with | 16 |
| contractual duties; (4) explain why the State Board of | 17 |
| Education was not aware of Harcourt Assessment, Inc.'s | 18 |
| inability to perform its contractual duties; and (5) explain | 19 |
| how the multiple problems with the delivery of tests and the | 20 |
| accuracy of testing documents put the 2006 standardized testing | 21 |
| in jeopardy of being invalid; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 23 |
| delivered to the Speaker of the House, the members of the House | 24 |
| Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, the members of | 25 |
| the House Elementary and Secondary Education Appropriation | 26 |
| Committee, the members of the State Board of Education, and the | 27 |
| State Superintendent of Education.
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