US Congress Senate Bill 197 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

SMART Act Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely Act Amends subpart 1 (Accountability) of part A of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise the program allotting grants to states to develop and administer state academic content and achievement standards and assessments of student progress toward those standards. Requires each state to use such grant to: develop and administer such assessments and further align them with the state's academic content standards, ensure that students with limited English proficiency and disabled students are provided with appropriate accommodations to improve their inclusion in the assessments, develop state assessment systems aligned to content standards that support systems of continuous improvement, support local educational agencies (LEAs) in identifying uses of assessment data, and carry out certain other activities to improve the quality and use of state assessments. Revises the program awarding competitive grants to states to enhance assessment instruments. Requires each grantee that has not yet received a grant under such program to use the grant to: carry out audits of the state assessment system and ensure that LEAs carry out audits of local assessments; prepare and carry out a state plan, in coordination with LEAs, to improve and streamline state and local assessment systems; and award subgrants to LEAs to improve the quality and use of local assessments and their alignment with state academic content standards. Requires a state that has previously received such a grant to use a new grant to: carry out a state plan, in coordination with LEAs, to improve and streamline state and local assessment systems; and award subgrants to LEAs to improve the quality and use of local assessments and their alignment with state academic content standards. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to states to improve their understanding of existing flexibility in the design and implementation of high-quality, streamlined state assessment systems to measure student progress toward state academic achievement standards. Reauthorizes appropriations for the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the revised subpart 1 grant programs.

SMART Act Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely Act

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]
Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-20	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB408 (Related) 2015-04-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/197/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s197/BILLS-114s197is.pdf