SOAR Technical Corrections Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on December 6, 2011. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

SOAR Technical Corrections Act - Amends the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act to make technical corrections to the opportunity scholarship program that provides private school choice opportunities to disadvantaged students in the District of Columbia.

Limits the requirement that core subject teachers at participating schools have a baccalaureate or equivalent degree to those core subject teachers teaching participating students.

Directs the Institute of Education Sciences to administer nationally norm-referenced standardized tests to students participating in that evaluation, except where the school the student attends administers the same test. Requires participating schools that administer the test to provide the Secretary of Education with the test results for participating students.

[112th Congress Public Law 92]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 112-92
112th Congress

                                 An Act


 
    To amend the SOAR Act by clarifying the scope of coverage of the 
               Act. <<NOTE: Feb. 1, 2012 -  [H.R. 3237]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: SOAR Technical 
Corrections Act.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SOAR Technical Corrections Act''.
SEC. 2. USE OF FUNDS.

    Section 3007(a)(4)(F) of the Scholarships for Opportunity and 
Results Act (Public Law 112-10; 125 Stat. 203) is amended to read as 
follows:
                    ``(F) ensures that, with respect to core academic 
                subjects (as such term is defined in section 9101(11) of 
                the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
                U.S.C. 7801(11)), participating students are taught by a 
                teacher who has a baccalaureate degree or equivalent 
                degree, whether such degree was awarded in or outside of 
                the United States.''.
SEC. 3. NATIONALLY NORM-REFERENCED STANDARDIZED TESTS.

    Section 3008(h) of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act 
(Public Law 112-10; 125 Stat. 205) is amended by striking paragraph (2) 
and inserting the following:
            ``(2) Administration of tests.--The Institute of Education 
        Sciences shall administer nationally norm-referenced 
        standardized tests, as described in paragraph (3)(A) of section 
        3009(a), to students participating in the evaluation under 
        section 3009(a) for the purpose of conducting the evaluation 
        under such section, except where a student is attending a 
        participating school that is administering the same nationally 
        norm-referenced standardized test in accordance with the testing 
        requirements described in paragraph (1).
            ``(3) Test results.--Each participating school that 
        administers the nationally norm-referenced standardized test 
        described in paragraph (2) to an eligible student shall make the 
        test results, with respect to such student, available to the 
        Secretary as necessary for evaluation under section 3009(a).''.
SEC. 4. EVALUATIONS.

    Section 3009(a)(3) of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results 
Act (Public Law 112-10; 125 Stat. 206) is amended--

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            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting before the semicolon 
        the following: ``in a manner consistent with section 3008(h)''; 
        and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, if requested by 
        the Institute of Education Sciences,'' after ``will 
        participate''.

    Approved February 1, 2012.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3237:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 112-315 (Comm. on Oversight and Government Reform).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 157 (2011):
                                    Dec. 6, considered and passed House.
                                                        Vol. 158 (2012):
                                    Jan. 23, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.

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