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‘‘SEC. 5523. ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STU-
DENTS AND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMA-
TION. 
‘‘(a) POLICY.— 
‘‘(1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFOR-
MATION.—Notwithstanding section 444(a)(5)(B) of 
the General Education Provisions Act, each local 
educational agency receiving assistance under this 
Act shall provide, upon a request made by a military 
recruiter or an institution of higher education, ac-
cess to the name, address, and telephone listing of 
each secondary school student served by the local 
educational agency, unless the parent of such stu-
dent has submitted the prior consent request under 
paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) CONSENT.— 
‘‘(A) OPT-OUT PROCESS.—A parent of a 
secondary school student may submit a written 
request, to the local educational agency, that 
the student’s name, address, and telephone list-
ing not be released for purposes of paragraph 
(1) without prior written consent of the parent. 
Upon receiving such request, the local edu-
cational agency may not release the student’s 
name, address, and telephone listing for such 
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purposes without the prior written consent of 
the parent. 
‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION
OF
OPT-OUT
PROC-
ESS.—Each local educational agency shall no-
tify the parents of the students served by the 
agency of the option to make a request de-
scribed in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS.—Each local 
educational agency receiving assistance under this 
Act shall provide military recruiters the same access 
to secondary school students as is provided generally 
to institutions of higher education or to prospective 
employers of those students. 
‘‘(4) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION
PROHIBITING 
OPT-IN
PROCESSES.—Nothing in this subsection 
shall be construed to allow a local educational agen-
cy to withhold access to a student’s name, address, 
and telephone listing from a military recruiter or in-
stitution of higher education by implementing an 
opt-in process or any other process other than the 
written consent request process under paragraph 
(2)(A). 
‘‘(5) PARENTAL
CONSENT.—For purposes of 
this subsection, whenever a student has attained 18 
years of age, the permission or consent required of 
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and the rights accorded to the parents of the stu-
dent shall only be required of and accorded to the 
student. 
‘‘(b) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Defense, shall, not later than 120 
days after the date of enactment of the Student Success 
Act, notify school leaders, school administrators, and other 
educators about the requirements of this section. 
‘‘(c) EXCEPTION.—The requirements of this section 
do not apply to a private secondary school that maintains 
a religious objection to service in the Armed Forces if the 
objection is verifiable through the corporate or other orga-
nizational documents or materials of that school. 
‘‘SEC. 5524. PROHIBITION ON FEDERALLY SPONSORED 
TESTING. 
‘‘(a) GENERAL PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of Federal law and except as provided in 
subsection (b), no funds provided under this Act to the 
Secretary or to the recipient of any award may be used 
to support, develop, pilot test, field test, implement, ad-
minister, or distribute any federally sponsored national 
test or testing materials in reading, mathematics, or any 
other subject, unless specifically and explicitly authorized 
by law. 
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‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
international comparative assessments developed under 
the authority of section 153(a)(5) of the Education 
Sciences Reform Act of 2002 and administered to only a 
representative sample of pupils in the United States and 
in foreign nations. 
‘‘SEC. 5525. LIMITATIONS ON NATIONAL TESTING OR CER-
TIFICATION FOR TEACHERS. 
‘‘(a) MANDATORY NATIONAL TESTING OR CERTIFI-
CATION OF TEACHERS.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of this Act or any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Department or otherwise available under 
this Act may be used for any purpose relating to a manda-
tory nationwide test or certification of teachers or edu-
cation paraprofessionals, including any supporting, plan-
ning, development, implementation, coercion or adminis-
tration of such test or certification. 
‘‘(b) PROHIBITION ON WITHHOLDING FUNDS.—The 
Secretary is prohibited from withholding funds from any 
State educational agency or local educational agency if the 
State educational agency or local educational agency fails 
to adopt a specific method of teacher or paraprofessional 
certification. 
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‘‘SEC. 5526. RULEMAKING. 
‘‘The Secretary shall issue regulations under this Act 
as prescribed under section 1401 only to the extent that 
such regulations are necessary to ensure that there is com-
pliance with the specific requirements and assurances re-
quired by this Act. 
‘‘SEC. 5527. PEER REVIEW. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary uses a peer re-
view panel to evaluate an application for any program re-
quired under this Act, the Secretary shall conduct it in 
accordance with this section. 
‘‘(b) MAKEUP.—The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) solicit nominations for peers to serve on 
the panel from States that are— 
‘‘(A) practitioners in the subject matter; or 
‘‘(B) experts in the subject matter; and 
‘‘(2) select the peers from such nominees, ex-
cept that there shall be at least 75 percent practi-
tioners on each panel and in each group formed 
from the panel. 
‘‘(c) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary shall issue the peer 
review guidance concurrently with the notice of the grant. 
‘‘(d) REPORTING.—The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) make the names of the peer reviewers 
available to the public before the final deadline for 
the application of the grant; 
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