Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids Act

A bill to create or adopt, and implement, rigorous and voluntary American education content standards in mathematics and science covering kindergarten through grade 12, to provide for the assessment of student proficiency benchmarked against such standards, and for other purposes.

1/9/2007--Introduced.
Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids Act or the SPEAK Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (the Act) to require the Commissioner for Educational Statistics to add science to the mandatory biennial national and state academic achievement assessments of students in grades four, eight, and twelve in reading and mathematics. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states receiving school improvement funds to participate in such science assessments of students in grades four and eight, beginning with the 2008-2009 school year. Amends the Act to task the National Assessment Governing Board with creating or adopting voluntary American education content standards in mathematics and science for kindergarten through grade 12 which reflect the knowledge students need to enter college or the workforce and compete in the global economy. Requires the Secretary of Education to establish the American Standards Incentive fund to award competitive four-year grants to states which agree to:
(1) adopt such voluntary mathematics and science standards as the core of their own academic content standards in such subjects; and
(2) align their teacher certification and professional development requirements to such standards. Provides additional funds to successful grantees for the enhancement of their student performance data systems. Authorizes the Secretary to extend by two to four years for such grantees the 12-year period at the end of which students must meet or exceed state academic performance standards established under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.224

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
January 09, 2007

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• Jan 09, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S294-295)
• Jan 09, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Introduced on Jan 09, 2007.
• Jan 09, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S294-295)

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Related Bills:

• H.R.325

Related Issue Areas:

• Elementary and secondary education
• Academic performance
• Armed forces
• Budgets
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• Congressional reporting requirements
• Continuing education
• Curricula
• Data banks
• Defense policy
• Disabled
• Education
• Educational accountability
• Educational research
• Educational tests
• Elementary education
• Families
• Federal aid to education
• Government trust funds
• Higher education
• Indian education
• Indians
• Law
• Licenses
• Mathematics
• Military dependents
• Minorities
• Performance measurement
• Rating of teachers
• Science policy
• Scientific education
• Secondary education
• Special education
• Standards
• State and local government
• State laws
• Teacher education
• Teaching materials
• Technology

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