U.S. Congress - H.R.2166 Practicality in Education Act
H.R.2166 - Practicality in Education Act
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve the method of determining adequate yearly progress, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Practicality in Education Act as introduced.
- Official: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve the method of determining adequate yearly progress, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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Latest Action Jul 17, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Earl... Related Bills (0) & Issues (22)
Official Summary
5/3/2007--Introduced.Practicality in Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to exclude the results of limited English proficient students, during their first two school years in this country, from adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments, when such students are assessed in reading or mathematics in a language other than their native tongue.
Allows state determinations of AYP pursuant to state academic achievement standards to employ a growth model, measuring the achievement of the same students and subgroups from year to year.
Requires that 4% of disabled students taking modified assessments be counted in measuring student proficiency pursuant to such standards.
Gives schools which are identified as needing improvement, due to having failed for two consecutive years to make AYP pursuant to such standards, a full new school year to meet the standards before its students must be given the option to transfer to another public school. (Currently, such transfers must be allowed at the beginning of the school year following such identification.)
Provides that, in determining AYP, a student in more than one group subject to measurable annual objectives shall be counted only toward one such group.
Allows states to consider new middle and secondary school special education and rural teachers to be highly qualified even if they do not pass a rigorous state academic subject test in every subject they teach, provided they pass such a test for one subject they teach and, with respect to each other subject they teach, work in close consultation with another teacher who is highly qualified in such other subject.
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National Education Association: Letter to Representative Moran ...
On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the National Education Association (NEA), we would like to express our strong support for the Practicality in Education Act (HR 2166). We thank you for your leadership in introducing this bill, ...
HR 2166 Introduced
Honoring Steve Speir for serving as Democratic precinct chair of Precinct 135 in House District 46.
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