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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Goals 2000: Educate America Act Part A: National Education Goals Part B: National Education Reform Leadership, Standards, and Assessments Part C: State and Local Education Systemic Improvement Part D: National Skill Standards Board Part E: Miscellaneous Part F: Parental Information and Resource Centers Title II: Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination Act Part A: General Provisions Regarding Office of Educational Research and Improvement Part B: National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board Part C: National Research Institutes Part D: National Education Dissemination System Part E: National Library of Education Title III: Safe Schools Act of 1994 Title I: Goals 2000: Educate America Act - Part A: National Education Goals - Sets forth national goals for education, to be achieved by the year 2000, in the following categories: (1) school readiness; (2) school completion; (3) student achievement and citizenship (including access to physical and health education); (4) teacher education and professional development; (5) mathematics and science; (6) adult literacy and lifelong learning; (7) safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools; and (8) school and home partnership. Sets forth specific objectives for each goal. Part B: National Education Reform Leadership Standards, and Assessments - Subpart 1: National Education Goals Panel - Establishes the National Education Goals Panel in the executive branch. (Sec. 123) Requires the Panel to issue an annual national report card on progress toward achieving the national education goals and on actions that Federal, State, and local governments should take to enhance such progress. (Sec. 127) Directs the Panel to support the work of its Resource and Technical Planning Groups to improve the methods of assessing the readiness of children for school that would lead to alternatives to currently used norm-referenced early childhood assessments. Subpart 2: National Education Standards and Improvement Council - Establishes the National Education Standards and Improvement Council in the executive branch. (Sec. 133) Requires the Council to develop and certify (subject to Panel review and approval) voluntary national standards for content areas, student performance, and fair opportunity-to-learn. Authorizes the Council to certify any such standards presented by a State, if these are consistent with the national standards. Directs the Council to certify a system of assessments voluntarily presented by a State if such system meets certain criteria, including State establishment or adoption of opportunity-to-learn standards. Prohibits such a system from being used to make decisions regarding graduation, grade promotion, or retention of students for five years after enactment of this Act. Provides that no State shall be required to obtain such certification of standards or assessments or to participate in programs under title III of this Act as a condition of participating in any Federal education program. (Sec. 139) Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make a competitive grant to a consortium of various individuals and organizations to develop voluntary national opportunity-to-learn standards. (Sec. 140) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to applicant States and local educational agencies (LEAs) to help defray costs of developing, field testing, and evaluating systems of assessments aligned to Council-certified State content standards. (Sec. 141) Directs the Secretary to make an annual grant to the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Education to evaluate the work of and process used by the Panel and Council and provide them information. Subpart 3: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for the Panel, the Council, the opportunity-to-learn development grant, and the assessment development and evaluation grants. Part C: State and Local Education Systemic Improvement - Establishes a five-year grant program for State and local education systemic improvement. (Sec. 153) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 156) Sets forth requirements for State improvement plans, including strategies for: (1) improving teaching and learning (including standards for content, student performance, and opportunity-to-learn); (2) system governance and management; (3) parental and community support and involvement; (4) State system-wide improvement; (5) promoting bottom-up reform; and (6) coordination with school-to-work programs and of academic and vocational instruction. Declares that nothing in such plan requirements shall be construed to authorize Federal mandates, direction, or control over a State, local educational agency (LEA), or school's curriculum, program of instruction, or allocation of State and local resources. (Sec. 159) Requires State education agencies (SEAs) to make competitive subgrants for: (1) local reform, to LEAs; and (2) preservice teacher education and professional development activities, to consortia of LEAs, higher education institutions, private nonprofit organizations, or combinations of these, through a peer-review process. Requires that at least 50 percent of local reform subgrants be awarded to LEAs with a greater percentage or number of disadvantaged children than the statewide average. (Sec. 160) Provides for availability of systemic reform information and training to private elementary and secondary schools and teachers. (Sec. 161) Authorizes the Secretary to waive requirements and related regulations of specified Federal laws relating to education upon request of SEAs, LEAs, and schools if such requirements impede their ability to carry out the State or local education improvement plans, and if other conditions are met. (Sec. 163) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for national leadership activities, including technical assistance, data-gathering, research, evaluation, and information-dissemination. Reserves funds for grants to urban and rural LEAs with large numbers of concentrations of students economically disadvantaged or with limited English proficiency, to assist in school improvement plans development and implementation. (Sec. 164) Provides for assistance under this title for outlying areas, Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and Department of Defense schools. Part D: National Skill Standards Board - Establishes a National Skill Standards Board. (Sec. 173) Directs the Board to identify broad clusters of major occupations that involve one or more industries in the United States and, with respect to each cluster, promote and assist in voluntary development and adoption by specified representative groups of industries, employees, and educational institutions of: (1) skill standards; (2) assessment and certification systems; (3) evaluation systems; (4) information dissemination systems; and (5) revision and updating of systems. Includes among the standards which the voluntary skill standards must meet or exceed: (1) the highest standards used in other countries and the highest international standards; and (2) the highest applicable standards used in the United States, including apprenticeship standards registered under the National Apprenticeship Act. Provides for Board endorsement of standards. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants and contracts to carry out purposes of this part. (Sec. 176) Authorizes appropriations. Part E: Miscellaneous - Prohibits the use of funds under titles II or III of this Act to undertake assessments that will be used to make decisions regarding the graduation, grade promotion, or retention of students for five years from the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 183) Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act to set forth conditions under which the Commissioner of Education Statistics may authorize State educational agencies to use items and data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to evaluate a course of study related to vocational education. (Sec. 184) Provides for compliance with the Buy American Act. Sets forth the sense of the Congress regarding purchase of U.S.-made equipment and products with financial assistance under this Act. Prohibits contracts under this Act with those who falsely label products as "Made in America." Part F: Parental Information and Resources - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make annual grants to private, nonprofit organizations to provide training and information to parents of children aged birth to five years and children enrolled in participating schools and individuals who work with such parents to encourage a more effective working relationship with professionals in meeting the educational needs of such children. (Sec. 195) Directs the Secretary, after the establishment of a parent training and information center in each State, to provide for establishment of additional experimental centers. (Sec. 197) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination Excellence Act - Part A: General Provisions Regarding Office of Educational Research and Improvement - (Sec. 211) Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise certain provisions relating to the purpose, administration, functions, and structure of the Office of Educational Research Improvement (OERI). Eliminates provisions for the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Secretary of Education, acting through OERI, to carry out specified policies, in accordance with the policies and priorities established by the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board. Requires OERI to be administered by an Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Eliminates a specified exception (for small amounts or urgent situations) to the use of peer review procedures established by OERI in awarding competitive grants or contracts. Authorizes appropriations for OERI programs and units (both current ones and ones added by this Act). (Sec. 212) Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to provide for an Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. (Sec. 213) Provides that contracts for regional educational laboratories, education resources information clearinghouses, and research and development centers assisted under GEPA shall remain in effect until their own termination date. (Sec. 214) Requires existing grants and contracts for the research and development centers assisted under GEPA to remain in effect until their termination, and allows them to be extended to implement the provisions of this Act. Part B: National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board - Amends GEPA to establish within OERI a National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board (Board). (Sec. 221) Makes the Board, acting through the Assistant Secretary, responsible for specified functions. Directs the Board to develop a research priorities plan and program, which recommends priorities for investment of OERI resources over the next five-, ten-, and 15-year periods. Directs the Board to: (1) review and approve standards for the conduct and evaluation of all OERI activities; and (2) establish a standing subcommittee for each of specified Institutes and for the Office of Dissemination and School Improvement. Part C: National Research Institutes - Amends GEPA to establish the following National Research Institutes within OERI: (1) the National Institute for Education of At-Risk Students; (2) the National Institute for Innovation in Educational Governance, Finance, Policy-Making, and Management; (3) the National Institute for Early Childhood Development and Education; (4) the National Institute on Student Achievement; and (5) the National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Education. Sets forth provisions relating to such Institutes' targeting historically underrepresented researchers and institutions. (Sec. 231) Directs the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary, to undertake comprehensive, coordinated programs of research by each of the Institutes on: (1) assessment; (2) cross-cutting issues relevant to one or more Institutes; (3) teaching and teacher education; and (4) educational technology. Part D: National Education Dissemination System - Amends GEPA to establish within OERI an Office of Reform Assistance and Dissemination (Dissemination Office), through which the Secretary shall carry out a national education dissemination system for school improvement. Provides for Dissemination Office functions and duties, including: (1) identification, designation, and dissemination of exemplary and promising programs including certain training, technical, and financial assistance; (2) the Education Resources Information Clearinghouses; (3) dissemination through new technologies; (4) an electronic network for sources of materials and research about teaching and learning for improving nationwide education (SMARTLINE) to link various educational research and other entities; (5) a networked system of the ten regional educational laboratories; (6) the Goals 2000 Community Partnership Program; (7) the Teacher Research Dissemination Network (regional partnerships for teacher change agents); and (8) the existing National Diffusion Network and its Developer-Demonstrator and State Facilitator projects. (Sec. 241) Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to make grants, under the Goals 2000 Community Partnerships Program, to support establishment of Learning Grant Institutions and District Education Agents and authorized activities for educational innovation, educator preparation, and integrated systems of service delivery for children from birth through age 18 and their families in eligible communities. Part E: National Library of Education - Amends GEPA to establish within OERI a National Library of Education (the Library) to: (1) provide a central location within the Federal Government for information about education; (2) provide comprehensive reference services on education-related matters; and (3) promote greater cooperation and resource-sharing among education information providers and repositories in the United States. Requires the Library to: (1) establish a one-stop central information and referral service to respond to inquiries from the public; and (2) publicize a toll-free telephone number for public inquiries. Directs the Library to deliver comprehensive reference services of various types on education-related subjects. Directs the Library to promote greater cooperation and resource-sharing among libraries and archives with significant collections in the area of education. Requires the Library to be administered by an Executive Director appointed by the Assistant Secretary. Directs the Assistant Secretary to appoint a task force of librarians, scholars, teachers, parents, and school leaders (Task Force) to advise on establishment of the Library. Transfers to the Library all functions of the Department's: (1) Research Library; (2) Reference Section; and (3) Information Branch. Requires the Assistant Secretary to promulgate a comprehensive collection development policy to govern the Library operations, acquisitions, and services to users. Requires the Executive Director to develop a multiyear plan for elimination of cataloging arrearages and for response to preservation needs. Title III: Safe Schools Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible local educational agencies for projects to achieve National Education Goal Six by helping to ensure that all schools are safe and free of violence. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to use certain reserved funds to conduct national leadership activities such as research, program development and evaluation, data collection, public awareness activities, training and technical assistance,and peer review of applications, and grants for public television video projects for conflict resolution.
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Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-9] · D–MI
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Became Public Law No: 103-227.
Became Public Law No: 103-227.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 63-22. Record Vote No: 86. (consideration: CR 3/25/1994 S4036)
Senate roll call 86 · Individual votesConference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 63-22. Record Vote No: 86.(consideration: CR 3/25/1994 S4036)
Senate roll call 86 · Individual votesCloture on the Conference report to accompany H.R. 1804 invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 62-23. Record Vote No: 85. (consideration: CR 3/25/1994 S4035)
Senate roll call 85 · Individual votesFourth cloture motion on the Conference report accompanying H.R. 1804 presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S3903)
Third cloture motion on the Conference report accompanying H.R. 1804 presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S3903)
Conference report considered in Senate.
Motion to proceed to the consideration of the Conference report agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 83-12. Record Vote No: 83. (consideration: CR S3861)
Senate roll call 83 · Individual votesSecond cloture motion on the Conference report accompanying H.R. 1804 presented in Senate.
Cloture motion on the Conference report accompanying H.R. 1804 presented in Senate.
Conference report considered in Senate.
Motion to proceed to the consideration of the Conference report agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 60-31. Record Vote No: 70. (consideration: CR 3/23/1994 S3533-3535)
Senate roll call 70 · Individual votesMotion to proceed to the consideration of the Conference report to accompany H.R. 1804 made in Senate.
Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 306 - 121 (Roll no. 86). (consideration: CR H1925-1937)
House roll call 86 · Individual votesMotions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 306 - 121 (Roll no. 86).(consideration: CR H1925-1937)
House roll call 86 · Individual votesOn motion to recommit with instructions to conference committee Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 195 - 232 (Roll no. 85). (consideration: CR H1936)
House roll call 85 · Individual votesThe previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions to conference committee was ordered without objection.
The instructions contained in the motion offered by Mr. Duncan would require the managers on the part of the House to include in their conference report the provision committed to the conference as section numbered 405 of the Senate amendment, which relates to the subject of school prayer.
Mr. Duncan moved to recommit with instructions to the conference committee.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 393, the House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report.
Mr. Ford (MI) brought up conference report H. Rept. 103-446 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 393.
Rule H. Res. 393 passed House.
Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement held at the desk in Senate.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 393 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 1804. Upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider the conference report on H.R. 1804. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be considered as read.
Conference report H. Rept. 103-446 filed. (text of conference report: CR H1625-1684)
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 103-446 filed.(text of conference report: CR H1625-1684)
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference held.
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
The Speaker appointed additional conferees - from the Committee on Foreign Affairs for consideration of sec. 921 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Hamilton, Berman, Lantos, Gilman, and Snowe.
The Speaker appointed additional conferees - from the Committee on Energy and Commerce for consideration of title XII of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Dingell, Waxman, Synar, Moorhead, and Bliley.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to request for conference. Appointed conferees. Kennedy; Pell; Metzenbaum; Simon; Dodd; Harkin; Mikulski; Bingaman; Wellstone; Wofford; Kassebaum; Jeffords; Coats; Gregg; Thurmond; Hatch; Durenberger. (consideration: CR S2287)
Senate disagreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Voice Vote.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate disagreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Voice Vote.
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment and House requests a conference.
Senate ordered measure printed as passed.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Education and Labor for consideration of Title II of the House amendment to the Senate amendment, and secs. 901-14 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Ford (MI), Owens, Payne (NJ), Scott, Sawyer, Goodling, Ballenger, Barrett (NE), and Fawell.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Education and Labor for consideration of the House amendment (except title II) to the Senate amendment, and the Senate amendment (except secs. 901-14), and modifications committed to conference: Ford (MI), Kildee, Miller (CA), Sawyer, Owens, Unsoeld, Reed, Roemer, Mink, Engel, Becerra, Green, Woolsey, English (AZ), Strickland, Payne (NJ), Romero-Barcelo, Goodling, Gunderson, McKeon, Petri, Molinari, Cunningham, Miller (FL), Roukema, and Boehner.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 367 - 55 (Roll no. 30). (consideration: CR H650)
House roll call 30 · Individual votesThe previous question was ordered without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Duncan motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion require the managers on the part of the House to agree to section 405 of the Senate amendment which concerns school prayer.
Mr. Duncan moved that the House instruct conferees.
On motion that the House insist upon its amendment to the Senate amendment, and request a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H648)
Mr. Ford (MI) moved that the House insist upon its amendment to the Senate amendment, and request a conference.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H648)
Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection.(consideration: CR H648)
Mr. Ford (MI) asked unanimous consent that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate insists on its amendment asks for a conference, appoints conferees Kennedy; Pell; Metzenbaum; Simon; Dodd; Harkin; Mikulski; Bingaman; Wellstone; Wofford; Kassebaum; Jeffords; Coats; Gregg; Thurmond; Hatch; Durenberger. (consideration: CR S1160)
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1150 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 71-25. Record Vote No: 34.
Senate roll call 34 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1150 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 71-25. Record Vote No: 34.
Senate roll call 34 · Individual votesSenate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1150 amended.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S1128, S1146-1160)
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 231.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 1804.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 307 - 118 (Roll no. 496).
House roll call 496 · Individual votesMotion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 307 - 118 (Roll no. 496).
House roll call 496 · Individual votesThe House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1804.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 274, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Armey amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 274, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Porter amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 274, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Payne amendmment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 274, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Goodling amendment.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour and twenty minutes of general debate.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Eva M. Clayton to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 274 and Rule XXIII.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1804 with 1 hour and 20 minutes of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. In lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and Labor now printed in the bill, it shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 3210. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 274. (consideration: CR H7739-7793)
Rule H. Res. 274 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 274 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1804 with 1 hour and 20 minutes of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. In lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and Labor now printed in the bill, it shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 3210. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.
Mr. Derrick notified the House that Members should submit 55 copies of proposed amendments to the bill to the Committee on Rules by noon on Tuesday, 10/12/93
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 93.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 103-168.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 103-168.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education Held Hearings Prior to Referral (April 22; May 4, 93).
Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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