Bill > S1177

Introduced Session

Student Success Act This bill reauthorizes and amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). The bill addresses issues such as accountability and testing requirements, distribution and requirements for grants, fiscal accountability requirements, and the evaluation of teachers. The bill provides states with increased flexibility and responsibility for developing accountability systems, deciding how federally required tests should be weighed, selecting additional measures of student and school performance, and implementing teacher evaluation systems. It includes grants for providing language instruction educational programs, improving low-performing schools, and developing programs for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The bill provides rural school districts with increased flexibility in using federal funding. It also revises the Impact Aid formula. The bill requires school districts to consult stakeholders in planning and implementing programs to improve student safety, health, well-being, and academic achievement. It combines two existing charter school programs into one program that includes grants for high-quality charter schools, facilities financing assistance, and replication and expansion. The bill provides states with flexibility in meeting maintenance of effort requirements for state and local education funding to supplement federal assistance. The bill prohibits the Department of Education from imposing certain requirements on states or school districts seeking waivers from federal laws. It provides that ESEA dollars may be used to improve early childhood education programs and specifies requirements to ensure that homeless youth have access to all services provided by the states and school districts.

AI Summary

Lamar Alexander (R)*, 

By Senator Alexander from Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions filed written report. Report No. 114-231. Additional views filed. (on 03/17/2016)

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