[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                  S. 3

To improve education and provide all students in the United States with 
                      the opportunity to succeed.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 22 (legislative day, January 3), 2013

    Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Murray, Ms. 
   Mikulski, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Coons, Mrs. 
    Gillibrand, Mr. Brown, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Sanders, Mr. 
 Menendez, Ms. Cantwell, and Mr. Levin) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To improve education and provide all students in the United States with 
                      the opportunity to succeed.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthen our Schools and Students 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF THE SENATE.

    It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should--
            (1) strengthen early learning programs to better prepare 
        children for success in school;
            (2) ensure that all students have equitable access to a 
        high-quality, well-rounded education that prepares them to 
        succeed in college and a career;
            (3) build on recent efforts to continue to make higher 
        education more affordable and to improve access and success for 
        all students;
            (4) provide all teachers with the support they need to 
        ensure student success, including the creation of a new 
        national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 
        (STEM) Master Teacher Corps to recognize and help retain STEM 
        teachers and strengthen STEM education in public schools in the 
        United States; and
            (5) support States and local educational agencies to ensure 
        schools have the safe and successful learning conditions in 
        which all students can excel.
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