Bill > S5597

This bill, titled the Service Academy Testing Enhancement Act of 2026, requires the Department of Defense to broaden the standardized testing options used for admissions at military service academies—such as West Point or the Naval Academy—and for eleventh-grade students in schools run by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which manages kindergarten through 12th-grade education for military families worldwide. Specifically, the legislation mandates that instead of relying on a single test, these institutions must accept and offer choices from at least three different nationally recognized college-readiness assessments that evaluate core academic skills like mathematics, reading, grammar, writing, and analytical reasoning.