No Child Left Behind Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2794
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative remedies
Age discrimination
Building construction
Building laws
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Class size
Commerce
Compensatory education
Computer software
Computers
Construction industries
Construction workers
Continuing education
Curricula
Data banks
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Discrimination in education
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Illiteracy
Internet
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Licenses
Local laws
Maintenance and repair
Minimum wages
Minorities
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Racial discrimination
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religious liberty
School administration
School buildings
School choice
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Self-help devices for the disabled
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
State laws
State-local relations
Teachers
Wages
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: 
No Child Left Behind Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, to subject to school facility capacity requirements the obligation of a local educational agency (LEA) to provide a public school choice option for students to transfer under certain conditions. 
 
Authorizes school construction and renovation grants to LEAs experiencing school overcrowding, with priority to LEAs having difficulty in meeting public school choice requirements.
 
Revises requirements for: (1) supplemental educational services personnel qualifications, and nondiscrimination in such services; and (2) State qualifications for teachers and paraprofessionals.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to require LEAs and State educational agencies (SEAs) to give schools and LEAs, respectively, an opportunity to request a review of a determination that they did not make adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the 2002-2003 school year. Prohibits the Secretary, an SEA, or an LEA, with respect to subsequent determinations of whether a school is subject to school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring as a result of not making AYP, from taking into account a 2002-2003 non-AYP determination that was revised under this Act, if the school received a final determination of AYP for such school year.
 
Authorizes competitive grants to SEAs for increasing State and local data system capacity for assessment and accountability, including measuring student academic progress, achievement, and graduation rates.
 
Requires competitive grants to SEAs or SEA consortia to collaborate with institutions of higher education and research organizations in designing, improving, and ensuring accurate assessments of academic content and achievement standards for students who are limited English proficient and students with disabilities.
 
Directs the Secretary to collect, from SEAs, LEAs, and schools, annual reports on student enrollment in grades 7 through 12 and graduation rates. 
 
Sets forth provisions relating to civil rights and to technical assistance and research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9134-9137)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9133-9134)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate