N.Y. Education Law § 341: Background reports

§ 341. Background reports. 1. Whenever any test agency prepares or

causes to have prepared research which is used in any study, evaluation

or statistical report pertaining to a test operational after January

first, nineteen hundred eighty, such study, evaluation or report shall

be filed with the commissioner. This section shall apply to any

unpublished study, evaluation or statistical report cited in memoranda

of support or opposition to legislation or proposed rules and

regulations relating to standardized testing written or published by

the test agency or its employees in behalf of the test agency on or

after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-three.

2. If any reports or other documents submitted pursuant to this

section contain information identifiable with any test subject or test

user institution, such information shall be deleted prior to filing with

the commissioner.

3. All reports or other documents submitted pursuant to this section

shall be public records.