BILL REQ. #:  S-4334.1 

Read first time 01/17/08.   Referred to Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education.

     AN ACT Relating to requiring a percent of the mathematics portion of the Washington assessment of student learning be short answer or multiple choice questions; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.655 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 28A.655 RCW to read as follows:
     Fifty percent of the test items on the mathematics portion of the Washington assessment of student learning shall be short answer or multiple choice questions that measure computation and application of mathematics formulas that show that the student has the basic mathematics skills for the appropriate grade level as opposed to extended response questions.