ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT

Amendments

Programs and activities: extend (S. 1), S3081 [22AP]

Articles and editorials

Matter of Money . . ., H1740 [30AP]

Bills and resolutions

Chesapeake Bay: make grants to eligible institutions to develop, demonstrate, or disseminate information on practices, methods, or techniques relating to environmental education and training in the watershed (see S. 2675), S6013 [25JN]

Education: permit certain States and local educational agencies to obtain waivers of student testing requirements (see S. 2954), S8753 [18SE]

———require medically accurate and objective factual information as part of any sex education course (see H.R. 5668), H8022 [16OC]

———reserve funds to provide special training, technical assistance, and professional development to eligible entities implementing Even Start programs, and to staff such programs (see H.R. 5036), H4324 [27JN]

Impact Aid Program: amend to include children of the freely associated states in the calculation of basic support payments to local educational agencies (see H.R. 4787), H2734 [21MY]

Local government: adjust method of determining eligibility for Impact Aid Program funds for heavily impacted local educational agencies (see S. 3087), S10223 [9OC]

———amend Impact Aid Program relative to delivery of payments to local educational agencies (see S. 3171), S11214 [15NO]

Science: include advanced scientific education programs in elementary schools (see H.R. 4581), H1619 [24AP]

Excerpts

Closing the Achievement Gap—Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning: Gerald A. Lieberman and Linda L. Hoody, State Education and Environment Roundtable (organization), S6016 [25JN]

Motions

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5320), complete congressional action to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6955 [2OC]

Proposals

Complete congressional action on H.R. 5320, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6780 [30SE], H6954, H6959 [2OC]

Remarks in House

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5320), complete congressional action to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6954, H6959 [2OC]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), H3207 [5JN]

———close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), conference report, H2213 [8MY], E1561 [12SE]

———funding, H1740 [30AP], H2916 [22MY]

———require medically accurate and objective factual information as part of any sex education course (H.R. 5668), E1919 [17OC]

———reserve funds to provide special training, technical assistance, and professional development to eligible entities implementing Even Start programs, and to staff such programs (H.R. 5036), E1182 [28JN]

Impact Aid Program: amend to include children of the freely associated states in the calculation of basic support payments to local educational agencies (H.R. 4787), E882 [22MY]

Science: include advanced scientific education programs in elementary schools (H.R. 4581), H1668 [25AP], E620 [24AP]

Remarks in Senate

Chesapeake Bay: make grants to eligible institutions to develop, demonstrate, or disseminate information on practices, methods, or techniques relating to environmental education and training in the watershed (S. 2675), S6015-S6018 [25JN]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), S2910 [18AP]

———close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), conference report, S5651 [18JN], S8150-S8152 [4SE]

———funding, S3484 [29AP], S5341-S5343 [11JN]

———improve and strengthen the recruitment and training of teachers, S5341-S5343 [11JN]

———permit certain States and local educational agencies to obtain waivers of student testing requirements (S. 2954), S8756 [18SE]

Local government: amend Impact Aid Program relative to delivery of payments to local educational agencies (S. 3171), S11215 [15NO]

Rulings of the Chair

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5320), complete congressional action to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6954, H6960 [2OC]

Texts of

S. 2954, Student Testing Flexibility Act, S8757 [18SE]