74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
 
                            Enrolled
 
                    Senate Joint Memorial 12
 
Sponsored by Senator AVAKIAN; Representative KOMP
 
 
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 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,
 
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
 
  (1) The Congress of the United States is respectfully requested
to immediately amend the No Child Left Behind Act to include a
mechanism for a waiver from its provisions for school
accountability that shall automatically be granted to states such
as Oregon that have high student achievement 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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                                Adopted by Senate April 18, 2007
 
                                Readopted by Senate May 31, 2007
 
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                                       Secretary of Senate
 
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                                       President of Senate
 
 
                                  Adopted by House May 25, 2007
 
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                                        Speaker of House
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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