[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 106 (Thursday, July 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S4965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2183. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2089 submitted by Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mrs. 
Murray) to the bill S. 1177, to reauthorize the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 40, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following:

       ``(IV) the inclusion of students in programs that use a 
     Native American language, including American Indian, Native 
     Hawaiian, and Alaska Native languages, as the predominant 
     medium language of instruction, including programs funded by 
     the Bureau of Indian Education, who shall have the option to 
     be assessed in a valid and reliable manner in the language of 
     instruction and form most likely to yield accurate data on 
     what such students know and can do in academic content areas, 
     provided that these students are assessed in English in 
     reading or language arts, even where such assessment is also 
     administered in a Native American language;

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