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H.R. 507: Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act

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H.R. 507: Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act

112th Congress · introduced 2011-01-26 · Education · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-01-26 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act

Plain summary

Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to require the use of adaptive assessments of student progress toward state academic performance standards that accurately assess student achievement above and below grade level while also measuring grade-level performance. Defines an "adaptive assessment" as one that changes in difficulty in accordance with a student's performance, but reports its outcome on a scale common to all students.

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Official text

Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6] · 33 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Judy Chu (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr507 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112