Pupil assessments.

Existing law, the Public School Performance Accountability Program, provides a state assessment program for schools, an intervention program for low-performing schools, and a reward system for high-achieving schools, as specified. This bill would require that any primary language assessment developed by the department and administered to limited-English-proficient students, as identified pursuant to existing law, on or after July 1, 2013, be included in the state's assessment system or any successor system and in the state's federal and state accountability system and any successor system. The bill would require the results of the primary language assessment to be used in any successor measure or results reported for the state's assessment systems and in any other successor measure, as specified. The bill would also require the results to be used in any measure, index, or results reported for the state's federal and state accountability system, or any successor system. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2013. This bill would make various findings and declarations.