SUCCESS Act

A bill to modernize the education system of the United States.

1/4/2007--Introduced.
States Using Collaboration and Coordination to Enhance Standards for Students Act of 2007 or the SUCCESS Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act to require a biennial national assessment of student achievement in grades four and eight, and grade 12 student preparedness, in reading, mathematics, and science. (Currently, science is not included in such assessments and grade 12 assessments need not be biennial.) Requires the Assessment Board's national academic content and student achievement standards to be competitive with rigorous international standards and set at a level that prepares students for non-remedial higher education, participation in the 21st century workforce, and the Armed Forces. Requires the Board, at a state's request, to assist it in identifying discrepancies between its standards and national standards, and in aligning such standards. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states to establish prekindergarten through grade 16 (PK-16) student preparedness councils made up of public and private stakeholders that:
(1) develop and implement measures to ensure that a state's academic content and student academic achievement standards and assessments meet the national benchmarks; and
(2) establish a PK-16 longitudinal data system to track student progress toward such benchmarks. Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to consortia of states for the development of common performance standards and assessments that compare favorably with national and international standards and assessments. Requires the Secretary to make consortia assessments available to all states.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]

Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.164

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January 04, 2007

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• Jan 04, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Jan 04, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S157-158)
• Introduced on Jan 04, 2007.
• Jan 04, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S157-158)

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July 19, 2007 Wasted energy? Local Democrats respond to override votes

The S.164 veto was also overridden easily in the Senate, 24-5, but failed - this time by just one vote - in the House, 97-50. The deciding vote was cast by ...

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July 19, 2007 Vermonters lose with campaign bill

S.164 was guided by hours of expert testimony and a careful review of the US Supreme Court decision that struck down Vermont's previous campaign finance law ...

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July 15, 2007 Editorial: No repeat performance for the 2008 session

Jim Douglas' vetoes on H.520, the energy efficiency bill, and S.164, the campaign finance bill. Overall, the 2007 session focused far too much on topics ...

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October 03, 2008 Pénzügyi trendek grafikai szemléltetése.

CSÜTÖRTÖK, LEHET 31 322 V111 S. 164) Lasource, egy kellemes-beszélt ügyvédben- mód, bevétel: van ez a valószínűség az elméjének, és az; valószínűségek melyikek szoronganak fájdalmasan melyikek haj

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October 02, 2008 DIE GRENZEN DES WACHSTUMS?

S. 164. "Der Globus kann einfach nicht 6,5 Milliarden Menschen so versorgen, dass der gegenwärtige Lebensstandard langfristig gehalten wird. Entweder der Standard sinkt oder es wird einige Hundert Millionen reiche Menschen und sehr ...

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September 07, 2008 Berhard Bueb - Allmachtsphantasien aus der Mottenkiste

Aufl., S. 164). Korrekt heißt es selbstverständlich bei Hartmut v. Hentig: “Die Menschen stärken, die Sachen klären”. Der Freudsche Versprecher (von Autor und Lektor!) läßt tief blicken. Besonders peinlich ist diese Entgleisung

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