Bill Text: TX HCR119 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging the United States Congress to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in order to lessen the burden of over-testing and teaching to the test.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-17 - Referred to Federalism & Fiscal Responsibility, Select [HCR119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HCR119-Introduced.html
83R25933 BPG-D | ||
By: Huberty | H.C.R. No. 119 |
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WHEREAS, The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary | ||
Education Act, currently termed the No Child Left Behind Act of | ||
2001, is now more than five years past due, and the most recent | ||
revision of the law was passed over 12 years ago; and | ||
WHEREAS, The State of Texas, Texas school districts, and | ||
Texas campuses need federal education policy that allows for state | ||
and local control in order to best educate the five million | ||
schoolchildren of Texas, a vast and varied group of young people who | ||
will not succeed under a one-size-fits-all approach; and | ||
WHEREAS, The current mandate to test every child every year | ||
in grades 3-8 and again in grades 9-11 promotes teaching to the | ||
test, and it has narrowed the curriculum, prevented the | ||
implementation of efficiencies in state budgeting with regard to | ||
testing and accountability, and caused local educational agencies | ||
to dedicate an excessive number of days to standardized testing | ||
that would be better spent educating students; and | ||
WHEREAS, Both the U.S. House Education and the Workforce | ||
Committee and the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, | ||
Labor, and Pensions passed bills to reauthorize the current | ||
education law during the previous Congress, and the house and | ||
senate are equipped to debate their bills on the floors of their | ||
respective chambers and ultimately to reauthorize the law; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the United States Congress to rewrite the | ||
Elementary and Secondary Education Act in order to lessen the | ||
burden of over-testing and teaching to the test; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |