74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
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 LC 474
 
                     House Joint Memorial 3
 
Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of Superintendent of Public
  Instruction Susan Castillo for Department of Education)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Urges Congress to adequately fund No Child Left Behind Act of
2001.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
  States of America, in Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas Oregon is a national leader in student achievement
through its high academic standards and its successful record of
school accountability; and
  Whereas Congress enacted and the President signed into law the
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which has as its
announced purposes the establishment of high academic standards
in reading, math and science and the implementation of test-based
accountability for achievement of those standards at schools that
do not have accountability; and
  Whereas although NCLB has laudable purposes and may impose
standards and accountability in states that have failed to hold
schools accountable for student achievement, the federal law is
misplaced in its application to Oregon; and
  Whereas a stated goal of NCLB is to provide flexibility for
states to improve academic achievement; and
  Whereas NCLB contains expensive mandates that Congress has not
sufficiently funded; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States of America is
respectfully requested to provide funding adequate to achieve the
mandates and goals established by the No Child Left Behind Act
and to exempt states from any of its provisions that are not
adequately federally funded, without such exemption relating to a
loss of any federal funds currently granted to the state in
question.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the Senate
Majority Leader and the Secretary of the United States Senate,
the Speaker and the Clerk of the United States House of
 
Representatives and each member of the Oregon Congressional
Delegation.
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