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ing reviews by the National Academy of Education or the
National Academy of Sciences of the National Assessment,
State assessments, local educational agency assessments,
and student performance goals. Such reviews shall address
whether each trial state assessment is properly adminis-
tered, produces high quality data that is valid and reliable,
produces data on student achievement that is not otherwise
available to the State exclusive of data comparing partici-
pating States to each other and the Nation, and is a cost-
effective method of producing the data. The Commissioner
shall also carry out evaluation studies by the Center and
solicitation of public comment on the conduct and useful-
ness of the National Assessment. The Commissioner shall
report to the Congress, the President, and the Nation on
the findings and recommendations of such reviews.
(2) The Commissioner shall consider the findings and
recommendations in designing the competition to select the
organization, or organizations, through which the Office
carries out the National Assessment.
(g) COVERAGE AGREEMENTS.—(1) The Secretary and
the Secretary of Defense may enter into an agreement, in-
cluding such terms as are mutually satisfactory, to include
in the National Assessment the defense dependents edu-
cation system established under the Defense Dependents’
Education Act of 1978.
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(2) The Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior
may enter into an agreement, including such terms as are
mutually satisfactory, to include in the National Assess-
ment schools for Indian children operated or supported by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
SEC. 412. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this title, $103,200,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums
as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1996, 1997,
1998, and 1999.
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS
SEC. 501. STUDY OF FEDERAL EFFORTS TO ASSIST IN
SCHOOL REFORM.
(a)(1) In addition to the national assessment con-
ducted pursuant to title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act as amended by this Act, the Secretary of
Education shall conduct a comprehensive study of how the
Federal Government has assisted the States to reform their
educational systems through the various education laws en-
acted during the 103d Congress.
(2) Such study shall encompass the changes made in
Federal programs pursuant to this Act as well as in any
other law enacted during this Congress amending a Federal
program assisting pre-elementary, elementary, or secondary
education. In addition, such study shall encompass new ini-
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tiatives enacted into law, such as the Goals 2000: Educate
America Act, and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act.
(b)(1) This study shall include a comprehensive review
of these laws and programs to determine their overall effect
on—
(A) the readiness of children for schooling,
(B) the improvement in educational attainment
of students in elementary and secondary education,
and
(C) the improvement in skills needed by students
to obtain employment upon completion of high school
or further education.
(2) This study shall also include a comprehensive re-
view of these programs to determine their overall effect—
(A) on school reform efforts undertaken by
States,
(B) on efforts by States to adopt educational
standards to improve schooling for all children, to
align their curricula, teacher training, and assess-
ments to such standards, and to bring flexibility to
the rules governing how education is to be provided,
and
(C) on student populations who have been the
traditional beneficiaries of Federal assistance to de-
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termine whether their educational attainment has
been improved through these changes.
(3) This study shall also evaluate how the National
Assessment Governing Board, the Advisory Council on Edu-
cation Statistics, the National Education Goals Panel, the
National Education Statistics and Improvement Council
and any other Board established to analyze, address, or ap-
prove standards and assessments coordinates, interacts,
and/or duplicates efforts to assist the States to reform their
educational systems.
(4) This study shall also include a review of these laws
and programs in such detail as the Secretary deems appro-
priate and may involve cooperation with other Federal de-
partments and agencies in order to incorporate their eval-
uations and recommendations.
(c)(1) The Secretary shall appoint an independent
panel to review the plan for this study, to advise on its
progress, and to comment, if it so wishes, on the final re-
port.
(2) The Secretary shall submit this report by January
1, 1998, to the Committee on Education and Labor of the
United States House of Representatives and to the Commit-
tee on Labor and Human Resources.
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SEC. 502. BUDGET COMPLIANCE.
Any authority to make payments pursuant to the
amendments made by this Act shall be effective only to the
extent provided in appropriation Acts.
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to extend for
five years the authorizations of appropriations for the
programs under the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965, and for certain other purposes.’’.
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