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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 101 – No Child Left Behind Act/exemption

SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 101

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SJM101..............................................by SCHROEDER AND PEARCE
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT - A Joint Memorial demanding that states without a
city of one million or more in population be exempt from the No Child Left
Behind Act.
                                                                        
01/21    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/24    Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
01/25    Ref'd to Educ

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-eighth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2005
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                               SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 101
                                                                        
                                  BY SCHROEDER AND PEARCE
                                                                        
  1                                   A JOINT MEMORIAL
  2    TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED  STATES  IN  CONGRESS
  3        ASSEMBLED,  AND  TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
  4        IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
                                                                        
  5        We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of  the
  6    State  of  Idaho  assembled  in  the First Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth
  7    Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
                                                                        
  8        WHEREAS, the federal No Child  Left  Behind  Act  (NCLB)  was  created  to
  9    address failing schools in large metropolitan areas; and
 10        WHEREAS,  the  majority  of  school  districts in Idaho and the nation are
 11    rural in nature and need maximum flexibility in the assignment of trained pro-
 12    fessional educators; and
 13        WHEREAS, Idaho has led the nation in school improvement reform by  passage
 14    of  the  Idaho  Reading  Initiative,  the  creation of academic standards, the
 15    alignment of Idaho public school curricula, and  the  creation  of  the  Idaho
 16    Standards Assessment Test (ISAT); and
 17        WHEREAS,  the NCLB Act provides that all schools must meet the 41 Adequate
 18    Yearly Progress (AYP) criteria or be placed in "AYP Jail," an  impossible  and
 19    costly task for smaller schools; and
 20        WHEREAS,  the  annual  National Assessment of Education Progress test does
 21    not provide specific data to help our instructional programs; and
 22        WHEREAS, the NCLB represents a de facto federal takeover of  Idaho  public
 23    education  in  violation  of  the  tenth  amendment to the Constitution of the
 24    United States; and
 25        WHEREAS, federal funding necessary to implement the provisions of NCLB  is
 26    inadequate and as such NCLB represents an unfunded federal mandate; and
 27        WHEREAS,  compliance with the provisions of NCLB has resulted in a disrup-
 28    tion of Idaho's traditional public education system and a diminishment of  the
 29    ability of Idaho's public schools to teach traditional Idaho family values.
 30        NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
 31    of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
 32    tives  concurring  therein, demand that the Congress of the United States work
 33    to change the provisions of the NCLB Act to provide that all  states  that  do
 34    not  have  at  least  one  city  with  a  population of one million or more be
 35    exempted from the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.
 36        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate  be,  and  she  is
 37    hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
 38    ident  of  the  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Con-
 39    gress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the
 40    Congress of the United States.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                  STATEMENT OF PURPOSE                                
                         RS14674

Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States and to Idaho's Congressional Delegation 
calling for exemption from NCLB requirements, without loss 
of funding,  for all states that do not have at least one 
city of 1 million people or more.  Gives reasons.






                      FISCAL IMPACT

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Contact:   Senator Monty Pearce
           Phone 208-332-1339

           Senator Gary J. Schroeder
           Phone 208-332-1323                SJM 101