3.0.0 1581 2023-01-11T13:18:10Z 2023-01-11T13:18:10Z Senate S S 2009-08-05 111 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-08-05T21:41:31Z 2009-08-05 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2009-08-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID N L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT 2009-08-05 True Education Academic performance and assessments Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Department of Education Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Intergovernmental relations Language arts School administration Special education State and local government operations Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2009-08-05 Introduced in Senate 2009-09-04T19:59:12Z Enhancing Flexibility for Effective Schools Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter requirements for adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments of student groups by: (1) lowering, from 95% to 90%, the minimum percentage of students in each group in a school that must take such assessments; (2) allowing the fractional counting of students who are in more than one group, for each such group; (3) allowing states to treat as proficient or advanced specified scores on alternate assessments for disabled students and those not proficient in English; and (4) allowing states to use alternative methods of defining AYP.

Revises criteria for local educational agency (LEA) identification of schools needing improvement. Declares that only those meet such criteria that fail AYP standards, for two consecutive school years (as under current law), in the same subject for the same group of students.

Revises eligibility criteria for school transfers after a school is identified as needing improvement. Declares that only failing students in the failing group, instead of all students in such a school, may transfer. Allows such schools to provide students with supplemental services rather than transfers during that school year.

Requires states to develop procedures allowing LEAs to register complaints concerning approved supplemental service providers or those seeking the state's approval.

Considers new middle or secondary school special education teachers to be highly qualified if, in addition to having a bachelor degree and high competence in their subject area, they have obtained a state special education certificate qualifying them to teach in the state.

]]> Enhancing Flexibility for Effective Schools Act Display Title Enhancing Flexibility for Effective Schools Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve the amendments made by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Enhancing Flexibility for Effective Schools Act Introduced in Senate 2009-08-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s1581is/xml/BILLS-111s1581is.xml 2009-08-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.