Full Text of HR0836 94th General Assembly
HR0836 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, United States Secretary of Education, Margaret | 3 |
| Spellings, has announced a New Path for the federal No Child | 4 |
| Left Behind Act of 2001 by way of a set of common sense | 5 |
| principles to guide states in meeting the Act's goals; this New | 6 |
| Path equation includes the primary elements of the Act, such as | 7 |
| the annual testing and reporting of subgroup data, but also | 8 |
| includes increasing student achievement, narrowing the | 9 |
| achievement gap, and overall state education policies that | 10 |
| ensure that progress is being made; and
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| WHEREAS, The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | 12 |
| recognizes that schools serving certain designated subgroups, | 13 |
| such as children who are limited English speakers and children | 14 |
| who have disabilities, require flexibility in determining | 15 |
| annual yearly progress; recent educational research indicates | 16 |
| that this type of flexibility is also needed for schools that | 17 |
| serve other vulnerable population groups, such as high school | 18 |
| drop-outs who return to school and who, due to low academic | 19 |
| achievement levels, are often confronted with multiple | 20 |
| barriers that impede their progress; and
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| WHEREAS, One of the flexible approaches that states have | 22 |
| requested is the use of growth-based accountability models, | 23 |
| which show promise as fair, reliable, and innovative methods | 24 |
| for measuring school and student improvement; growth-based | 25 |
| accountability models give schools credit for student | 26 |
| improvement over time by tracking individual student | 27 |
| achievement from year to year; and
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| WHEREAS, The United States Department of Education has | 29 |
| developed a new pilot program in order to rigorously evaluate | 30 |
| growth-based accountability models and their ability to meet | 31 |
| the goals of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and | 32 |
| to share the results with other states; as part of this pilot |
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| program, states may propose a growth-based accountability | 2 |
| model for use in determining annual yearly progress under the | 3 |
| federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, In order to be approved for participation in the | 5 |
| program, a model must have the following core requirements: (i) | 6 |
| ensure that all students are proficient by 2014 and set annual | 7 |
| goals to ensure that the achievement gap is closing for all | 8 |
| groups of students, (ii) set expectations for annual | 9 |
| achievement based upon meeting grade-level proficiency, not | 10 |
| based on student background or school characteristics, (iii) | 11 |
| hold schools accountable for student achievement in reading, | 12 |
| language arts, and mathematics, (iv) ensure that all students | 13 |
| in tested grades are included in the assessment and | 14 |
| accountability system, hold schools and districts accountable | 15 |
| for the performance of each student subgroup, and include all | 16 |
| schools and districts, (v) include an assessment system in each | 17 |
| of grades 3 through 8 and high school in reading and language | 18 |
| arts and mathematics, which must have been operational for more | 19 |
| than one year, that must receive approval through the federal | 20 |
| No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 peer review process for the | 21 |
| 2005-2006 school year and that must produce comparable results | 22 |
| from grade to grade and from year to year, (vi) track student | 23 |
| progress as part of the state data system, and (vii) include | 24 |
| student participation rates and student achievement on a | 25 |
| separate academic indicator in the state accountability | 26 |
| system; and
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| WHEREAS, The United States Department of Education will | 28 |
| approve no more than 10 high-quality growth models in this | 29 |
| pilot program for 2005-2006, and states that wish to apply and | 30 |
| meet the core requirements must submit their proposals to the | 31 |
| Department by February 17, 2006; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 33 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we urge the State Board of Education to apply for participation | 2 |
| in the growth-based accountability pilot program established | 3 |
| by the U.S. Department of Education; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That we urge the United States Department of | 5 |
| Education to use more flexible criteria in determining adequate | 6 |
| yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act; and | 7 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| delivered to the U.S. Secretary of Education, the State Board | 10 |
| of Education, the Speaker of the United States House of | 11 |
| Representatives, the President pro tempore of the United States | 12 |
| Senate, and to each member of the Illinois Congressional | 13 |
| delegation.
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