H R 2928 in Congressional Session 110

Official Summary

 

Bill Number : H R 2928

 

Title : To provide grants to States to improve high schools and raise graduation rates while ensuring rigorous standards, to develop and implement effective school models for struggling students and dropouts, and to improve State policies to raise graduation rates, and for other purposes.

 

SUMMARY AS OF:
6/28/2007--Introduced. Graduation Promise Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for differentiated high school improvement systems targeting support to schools with low student achievement and graduation rates after the school fails for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards. Requires LEAs also to use funds to: (1) improve feeder middle schools; and (2) identify and support struggling students before they reach high school. Requires state grantees to establish comprehensive school performance indicators and minimum annual improvement benchmarks for use, in addition to current AYP measures, in analyzing school performance and determining the improvement category into which a school is placed. Directs LEA subgrantees to convene a local school improvement team for each school placed in an improvement category that will use performance indicators to conduct a school needs assessment and develop a multiyear school improvement plan tailored to the school's need categorization. Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to: (1) LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to develop and implement, or replicate, effective school models for struggling students and dropouts; and (2) states to adjust their policies to allow for educational innovations that improve high school graduation rates while ensuring rigorous education content standards and assessments, if such states implement differentiated high school improvement systems and statewide longitudinal student data systems.

Votes

Title : To provide grants to States to improve high schools and raise graduation rates while ensuring rigorous standards, to develop and implement effective school models for struggling students and dropouts, and to improve State policies to raise graduation rates, and for other purposes.
Votes in the US Senate
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Votes in the US House
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Sponsors

 
Congressional Sponsors of H R 2928
 
Bill Number : H R 2928
Title : To provide grants to States to improve high schools and raise graduation rates while ensuring rigorous standards, to develop and implement effective school models for struggling students and dropouts, and to improve State policies to raise graduation rates, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] (introduced 6/28/2007)      
ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

    Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Allen, Thomas H. [ME-1] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Altmire, Jason [PA-4] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Baca, Joe [CA-43] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Becerra, Xavier [CA-31] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Bishop, Timothy H. [NY-1] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Boucher, Rick [VA-9] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 7/11/2007

    Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] - 5/1/2008

    Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 8/3/2007

    Rep Courtney, Joe [CT-2] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Davis, Artur [AL-7] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Emanuel, Rahm [IL-5] - 5/1/2008

    Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Ferguson, Mike [NJ-7] - 10/22/2007

    Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. [TX-20] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Green, Al [TX-9] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 7/11/2007

    Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. [IL-4] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 8/3/2007

    Rep Hirono, Mazie K. [HI-2] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 10/22/2007

    Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. [RI-1] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-13] - 7/11/2007

    Rep Klein, Ron [FL-22] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Lynch, Stephen F. [MA-9] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. [NY-14] - 11/8/2007

    Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 11/8/2007

    Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] - 7/19/2007

    Rep McNulty, Michael R. [NY-21] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Meeks, Gregory W. [NY-6] - 9/20/2007

    Rep Miller, Brad [NC-13] - 9/20/2007

    Rep Moore, Dennis [KS-3] - 9/4/2007

    Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-38] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Ortiz, Solomon P. [TX-27] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10] - 7/11/2007

    Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] - 7/11/2007

    Rep Reyes, Silvestre [TX-16] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Rodriguez, Ciro D. [TX-23] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Ross, Mike [AR-4] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] - 1/28/2008

    Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille [CA-34] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] - 8/2/2007

    Rep Salazar, John T. [CO-3] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Sanchez, Linda T. [CA-39] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Sanchez, Loretta [CA-47] - 11/8/2007

    Rep Scott, David [GA-13] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [VA-3] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Sestak, Joe [PA-7] - 1/28/2008

    Rep Shuler, Heath [NC-11] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Sires, Albio [NJ-13] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Solis, Hilda L. [CA-32] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 6/28/2007

    Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] - 7/19/2007

    Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Yarmuth, John A. [KY-3] - 12/4/2007

    Rep Young, Don [AK] - 11/8/2007

Other Info

Bill Number : H R 2928
Title : To provide grants to States to improve high schools and raise graduation rates while ensuring rigorous standards, to develop and implement effective school models for struggling students and dropouts, and to improve State policies to raise graduation rates, and for other purposes.
 
MAJOR ACTIONS:
***NONE***
 
ALL ACTIONS:
 
6/28/2007:Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
 
9/11/2007:Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.