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SJM108.........................................................by EDUCATION
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND - Stating findings of the Legislature and expressing
support for certain amendments to the No Child Left Behind Act.
02/16 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/17 Rpt prt - to Educ
02/20 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
02/23 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Schroeder
Title apvd - to House
02/24 House intro - 1st rdg - to Educ
03/01 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/02 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/04 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsors - Jaquet, Bedke & Barraclough
Title apvd - to Senate
03/05 To enrol
03/08 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/09 Sp signed
03/10 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session - 2004
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 108
BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
3 TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
4 DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
5 STATES.
6 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
7 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-seventh
8 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
9 WHEREAS, the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to move all students
10 to proficiency in reading, language arts and mathematics by 2014; and
11 WHEREAS, that goal can best be achieved by giving states flexibility to
12 capitalize on their unique resources and populations; and
13 WHEREAS, the short and long term financial implications of compliance with
14 the No Child Left Behind Act are of concern at the school district, state and
15 national levels; and
16 WHEREAS, it is appropriate for the President and Congress to consider
17 amendments to the No Child Left Behind Act that will continue both the commit-
18 ment to a quality public school education for every child and ensure that
19 states, school districts and educators can achieve the goals of the No Child
20 Left Behind Act.
21 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
22 sion of the Fifty-seventh Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Rep-
23 resentatives concurring therein, that we urge Congress to support amendments
24 to the No Child Left Behind Act that will accomplish the following:
25 (1) Allow determinations of "adequate yearly progress" to be made on the
26 basis of individual student growth from year to year;
27 (2) Target options for choice and supplemental services to specific
28 subgroups that fail to make adequate yearly progress rather than to all
29 children in a school;
30 (3) Provide flexibility and more reasonable rules for English Language
31 Learners so that these students are exempt from the calculation of a
32 school's participation level until they have been in the United States for
33 one full academic year; that scores of such students may, at the state's
34 option, be exempted from adequate yearly progress proficiency measurements
35 until they have been in the United States for three years; and that stu-
36 dents who become proficient in English will be allowed to continue to be
37 included in the English Language Learners subgroup; and
38 (4) Permit states to identify, for school improvement only, those schools
39 that fail to meet adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years in
40 the same subject and for the same subgroup.
41 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we request the United States Department of
42 Education and the states to continue progress on the open communications that
43 have started in implementing the No Child Left Behind Act.
44 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
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1 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to President
2 George W. Bush, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
3 Representatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the
4 State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 14005C1
A Joint Memorial to the president of the United States, to the
Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in
Congress assembled, and to the Congressional delegation
representing the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United
States.
FISCAL IMPACT
None
Contact
Name: Senator Gary Schroeder
Phone: 332-1324
Rep. Jack Barrclough
Rep. Scott Bedke
Rep. Wendy Jaquet
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE SJM 108