S.Amdt. 2684

SA 2684. Mrs. MURRAY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2360 proposed by Mr. Thune (for Mr. Graham) to the bill
H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con.
Res. 14; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 403, after line 24, insert the following:
``(5) Academic accountability and transparency.--A
scholarship granting organization may not award a scholarship
to any eligible student to pay for tuition at an elementary
or secondary public, private, or religious school that does
not--
``(A) administer at no cost to all of its students the
State annual assessments, described in section 1111(b)(2) of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, of the
State in which such school is located that are used to
measure the achievement of all public elementary and
secondary school students in the State, including, if
applicable, the alternate assessments for students with the
most significant cognitive disabilities described in section
1111(b)(2)(D) of such Act;
``(B) produce individual student reports regarding academic
achievement on the assessments described in section
1111(b)(2) of such Act that--
``(i) allow parents, teachers, principals, and other school
leaders to understand and address the specific academic needs
of students; and
``(ii) are provided to parents, teachers, and school
leaders as soon as is practicable after the assessment is
given, in an understandable and uniform format, and, to the
extent practicable, in a language that parents can
understand; and
``(C) submit data collected under the assessments described
in subparagraph (A) to the State annually for inclusion in
the State report card described in section 1111(h) of such
Act.
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