‘‘(iii) STATE
RESPONSIBILITY.—If a 
State educational agency chooses to au-
thorize a local educational agency, or 
school, in the State to develop and imple-
ment assessments pursuant to this sub-
paragraph, the State educational agency 
shall be responsible for demonstrating in 
the State plan that each such assessment 
complies with the requirements of this 
paragraph.’’. 
(e) MULTIPLE ASSESSMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (3) of section 
1111(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311(b)(3)) (as 
amended by subsection (d)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(F) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Notwith-
standing subparagraph (A), this paragraph 
shall not be construed to prohibit the develop-
ment and implementation of the student aca-
demic assessments required by this section 
through the use of multiple assessments of high 
technical quality integrated into a school’s cur-
riculum and distributed throughout the course 
of the school year.’’. 
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(2) PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT.—Clause (ii) 
of section 1111(b)(2)(I) (20 U.S.C. 6311(b)(2)(I)) 
(as amended by subsection (a)(2)) is amended by in-
serting ‘‘, and shall be a 75 percent annual average 
requirement in a case in which the school imple-
ments academic assessments for purposes of para-
graph (3) through the use of multiple assessments 
integrated into a school’s curriculum and distributed 
throughout the course of the school year’’ before the 
close parenthesis at the end. 
(f) HIGHLY QUALIFIED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND 
RURAL TEACHERS.—Section 9101(23)(B)(ii) of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7801(23)(B)(ii)) is amended as follows: 
(1) By striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subclause 
(I), redesignating subclause (II) as (III) and insert-
ing the following new subclause after subclause (I): 
‘‘(II) at the discretion of the 
State, in the case of a special edu-
cation teacher or a teacher in a rural 
school, by passing such a rigorous 
State academic subject test in any 1 
subject in which the teacher teaches 
if, with respect to each other academic 
subject in which the teacher teaches, 
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the teacher works in close consulta-
tion, either in-person or through high- 
quality distance education or consulta-
tion, with another teacher who is 
highly qualified in such other aca-
demic subject; or’’. 
(2) By inserting before the closing parentheses 
in clause (i) ‘‘or, at the option of the State, a rig-
orous academic subject matter teaching curriculum 
and institutional skill assessments (as determined by 
the State’s education commissioner) developed by a 
public or private university’’. 
(g) SOCIAL STUDIES TREATED AS CORE ACADEMIC 
SUBJECT.—Paragraph (11) of section 9101 of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7801) is amended by striking ‘‘and geography’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘geography, and social studies’’. 
(h) COMPETENCE IN SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES 
TREATED AS COMPETENCE IN SUBDISCIPLINES.—Para-
graph (23) of section 9101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subparagraph (B), by 
striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’, and by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph: 
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