Improving No Child Left Behind Act
Latest action · Jan 22, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S836-837)
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.
- IntroducedJan 22, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Improving No Child Left Behind Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter requirements for adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments of student groups by: (1) lowering, from 95% to 90%, the minimum percentage of students in each group in a school that must take such assessments; (2) allowing the fractional counting of students who are in more than one group, for each such group; (3) allowing states to treat as proficient or advanced specified scores on alternate assessments for disabled students and those not proficient in English; and (4) allowing states to use alternative methods of defining AYP.
Revises criteria for local educational agency identification of schools needing improvement. Declares that only those meet such criteria that fail AYP standards, for two consecutive school years (as under current law), in the same subject for the same group of students.
Revises eligibility criteria for school transfers after a school is identified as needing improvement. Declares that only failing students in the failing group, instead of all students in such a school, may transfer. Allows such schools to provide students with supplemental services rather than transfers during that school year.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 10, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-ID | Larry E. Craig | Apr 10, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 22, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S836-837)
- Jan 22, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S835-836)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance
- Administrative procedure
- Compensatory education
- Department of Education
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Educational tests
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Illiteracy
- Law
- School choice
- School districts
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Special education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2007Introduced in Senate
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