74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
HA to SJM 12
 
LC 1330/SJM 12-3
 
                       HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO
                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 12
 
                    By COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
 
                             May 23
 
  On page 1 of the printed joint memorial, delete lines 4 through
31 and insert:
  ' We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fourth Legislative
Assembly of the State of Oregon, in legislative session
assembled, respectfully represent as follows:
  ' 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 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 and the law's voluminous computerized
record-keeping requirements will cost Oregon literally millions
of dollars that the state does not have, yet is obligated to
spend in order to meet the requirements; now, therefore,'.
  On page 2, delete lines 1 through 6.
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