All Students Count Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-389
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2015-02-05
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments

Disability and paralysis

Education of the disadvantaged

Elementary and secondary education

Government information and archives

Minority education

Racial and ethnic relations

Special education

Women's education
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>All Students Count Act of 2015</strong></p> <p>Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require information on the annual state report cards on student achievement at each proficiency level to be disaggregated by the same major racial groups as the decennial census of the population. (Currently, that information is to be disaggregated by race, but the racial groups are not specified.) </p> <p>Requires the proficiency information which is disaggregated by such racial groups and by ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, and status as economically disadvantaged to be cross-tabulated across all of those subgroups by gender and by disability.</p> <p>Provides that such disaggregation and cross-tabulation shall not be required when the number of students in a subgroup is insufficient to yield statistically reliable information or the results would reveal personally identifiable information about an individual student.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 389 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 5, 2015 Ms. Hirono introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend section 1111(h)(1)(C)(i) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require that annual State report cards reflect the same race groups as the decennial census of population.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the All Students Count Act of 2015 . 2. Disaggregation of information on student achievement in annual State report cards Section 1111(h)(1)(C)(i) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311(h)(1)(C)(i) ) is amended to read as follows: (i) information, in the aggregate and disaggregated by the same major race groups as the decennial census of the population, ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and status as economically disadvantaged, and cross-tabulated across all of such subgroups by gender, by disability, and by English proficiency, on student achievement at each proficiency level on the State academic assessments described in subsection (b)(3), except that such disaggregation and cross-tabulation shall not be required in a case in which the number of students in a subgroup is insufficient to yield statistically reliable information or the results would reveal personally identifiable information about an individual student; .