Homeless and Foster Youth Achievement Act

Bill: 114-hr-3221
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-27
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments

Adoption and foster care

Education of the disadvantaged

Elementary and secondary education

Homelessness and emergency shelter
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Homeless and Foster Youth Achievement Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require a state to include additional information&nbsp;in its annual state report card.&nbsp; </p> <p>Under current law, a state must&nbsp;include&nbsp;data regarding student achievement&nbsp;on state academic assessments,&nbsp;both in the aggregate and disaggregated by race, ethnicity, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and status as&nbsp;disadvantaged.&nbsp; For purposes of a state's annual report card, the bill expands those categories to include homeless status and status as a child in foster care. Graduation rates for secondary school students must be reported by the same categories by which student achievement data is reported.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3221 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 27, 2015 Ms. Clark of Massachusetts (for herself, Mr. Marino , Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania , Mr. Barletta , Mr. Mullin , Mr. Franks of Arizona , Mrs. Lawrence , Ms. Bass , and Mr. Langevin ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require States to include information on the academic progress of homeless children and children in foster care in annual State report cards.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Homeless and Foster Youth Achievement Act . 2. Required information Section 1111(h)(1)(C) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311(h)(1)(C) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i), by inserting , homeless status, status as a child in foster care after English proficiency ; and (2) in clause (vi), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting (and disaggregated by the same categories and subject to the same exception as described in clause (i)); .