Graduation Promise Act of 2007

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.

4/23/2007--Introduced.
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.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
• and 8 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
  • Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1185

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
April 23, 2007

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• Apr 23, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Apr 23, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4843-4844)
• Introduced on Apr 23, 2007.
• Apr 23, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4843-4844)

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Related Bills:

• H.R.2928

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• Elementary and secondary education
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• Community and school
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Continuing education
• Curricula
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• Dropouts
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational accountability
• Educational innovations
• Educational planning
• Educational statistics
• Educational tests
• Families
• Federal aid to education
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Governmental investigations
• Higher education
• Job training
• Language arts
• Literacy programs
• Mathematics
• Nonprofit organizations
• Parent-school relationships
• Reading
• School administration
• School districts
• Secondary education
• Social services
• Standards
• State and local government
• State laws
• Student records
• Teacher education
• Technology
• Welfare

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Blog Coverage

March 18, 2008 Spellings Announces New “Differentiated Accountability” Pilot Program

Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) introduced the Graduation Promise Act (S. 1185/HR 2928), which would provide grants to states and schools to develop systems of differentiated high school improvement that will focus research and evidence-based ...

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October 23, 2007 Senate NCLB Draft Addresses High School Reform

Based on the text of the Graduation Promise Act (S. 1185), also known as GPA, the draft would create a High School Improvement Fund to assist the nation’s “dropout factories,” or those high schools with a graduation rate of 60% or less. ...

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The IFPMA Welcomes Nicholas Piramal India Limited The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) ... (S.1185). The letter, sent by NACDS President and CEO Steven C. click link for

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