Graduation Promise Act of 2007
Latest action · Apr 23, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4844-4851)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 23, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Graduation Promise Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for differentiated high school improvement systems targeting support to schools with low student achievement and graduation rates after the school fails for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards.
Requires state grantees to establish comprehensive school performance indicators and minimum annual improvement benchmarks for use, in addition to current AYP measures, in analyzing school performance and determining the improvement category into which a school is placed. Directs LEA subgrantees to convene a local school improvement team for each school placed in an improvement category that will use performance indicators to conduct a school needs assessment and develop a multiyear school improvement plan tailored to the school's need categorization. Permits LEAs to use funds to improve feeder middle schools.
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to: (1) LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to develop and implement, or replicate, effective school models for struggling students and dropouts; and (2) states to adjust their policies to allow for educational innovations that improve high school graduation rates while ensuring rigorous education content standards and assessments, if such states implement differentiated high school improvement systems and statewide longitudinal student data systems.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 23, 2007 to Oct 15, 2007; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Apr 23, 2007 |
| R-NC | Richard Burr | Original | Apr 23, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Apr 24, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Apr 24, 2007 | |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Jul 26, 2007 | |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Oct 15, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Oct 15, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Apr 23, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Apr 23, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4843-4844)
- Apr 23, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4844-4851)
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S5863 | Edward M. Kennedy D-MA | May 9, 2007 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4843–S4852Text printed S4844–S4851 | Edward M. Kennedy D-MA, Jeff Bingaman D-NM (text) | Apr 23, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 110-883 | IMPROVING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES AND POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS IN ALASKA AND NATIONWIDE: WHAT CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO?104 pages | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Nov 15, 2008 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2928 | Graduation Promise Act of 2007 | Related bill | Sep 11, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide grants to States to improve high schools and raise graduation rates while ensuring rigorous standards, to develop and implement effective school models for struggling students and dropouts, and to improve State policies to raise graduation rates, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Graduation Promise Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Colleges
- Community and school
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Curricula
- Data banks
- Dropouts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Educational innovations
- Educational planning
- Educational statistics
- Educational tests
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Governmental investigations
- Higher education
- Labor and Employment
- Language arts
- Literacy programs
- Mathematics
- Nonprofit organizations
- Parent-school relationships
- Reading
- School administration
- School districts
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- State laws
- Student records
- Teacher education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2007Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
