action in adversely reporting the resolution of disapproval does exactly that.

Sometimes you just have to stand up for what is right. Congress should disapprove the extension of China's Most-Favored-Nation status. We should prove that this country still has some principles which aren't for sale.

JIM BUNNING.

GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT

JULY 1, 1993.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. FORD of Michigan, from the Committee on Education and Labor, submitted the following

REPORT

together with

DISSENTING AND SUPPLEMENTAL DISSENTING VIEWS

[To accompany H.R. 1804]

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1804) to improve learning and teaching by providing a national framework for education reform; to promote the research, consensus building, and systemic changes needed to ensure equitable educational opportunities and high levels of educational achievement for all American students; to provide a framework for reauthorization of all Federal education programs; to promote the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications; and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

The amendments are as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the "Goals 2000: Educate America Act”.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

The purpose of this Act is to provide a framework for meeting the National Education Goals established by title I of this Act by

(1) promoting coherent, nationwide, systemic education reform;

(2) improving the quality of learning and teaching in the classroom and in the workplace;

(3) defining appropriate and coherent Federal, State, and local roles and responsibilities for education reform and lifelong learning;

(4) establishing valid, reliable, and fair mechanisms for

(A) building a broad national consensus on American education reform; (B) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards;

(C) assisting in the development and certification of opportunity-to-learn standards; and

(D) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality assessment measures that reflect the internationally competitive content and student performance standards;

(5) supporting new initiatives at the Federal, State, local, and school levels to provide equal educational opportunity for all students to meet high standards and to succeed in the world of employment and civic participation;

(6) providing a framework for the reauthorization of all Federal education programs by

(A) creating a vision of excellence and equity that will guide all Federal education and related programs;

(B) providing for the establishment of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards that all students will be expected to achieve;

(C) providing for the establishment of high quality, internationally competitive opportunity-to-learn standards that all States, local educational agencies, and schools should achieve;

(D) encouraging and enabling all State educational agencies and local educational agencies to develop comprehensive improvement plans that will provide a coherent framework for the implementation of reauthorized Federal education and related programs in an integrated fashion that effectively educates all children enabling them to participate fully as workers, parents, and citizens; and

(E) providing resources to help individual schools, including those serving students with high needs, develop and implement comprehensive improvement plans;

(7) stimulating the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards and certification to serve as a cornerstone of the national strategy to enhance workforce skills;

(8) assisting every elementary and secondary school that receives funds under this Act to actively involve parents and families in supporting the academic work of their children at home and in providing parents with skills to advocate for their children at school.

TITLE I-NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS

SEC. 101. PURPOSE.

The purpose of this title is to establish national education goals.

SEC. 102. NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS.

The Congress declares that the National Education Goals are the following: (1) SCHOOL READINESS. (A) By the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn.

(B) The objectives for this goal are that—

(i) all children will have access to high-quality and developmentally appropriate preschool programs that help prepare children for school;

(ii) every parent in America will be a child's first teacher and devote time each day to helping his or her preschool child learn, and parents will have access to the training and support they need; and

(iii) all children will receive the nutrition and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies, and to maintain the mental alertness necessary to be prepared to learn, and the number of lowbirthweight babies will be significantly reduced through enhanced prenatal health systems.

(2) SCHOOL COMPLETION.-(A) By the year 2000, the high school graduation rate will increase to at least 90 percent.

(B) The objectives for this goal are that

(i) the Nation must dramatically reduce its dropout rate, and 75 percent of those students who do drop out will successfully complete a high school degree or its equivalent; and

(ii) the gap in high school graduation rates between American students from minority backgrounds and their non-minority counterparts will be eliminated.

(3) STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND CITIZENSHIP.-(A) By the year 2000, all students will leave grades 4, 8, and 12 having demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, arts, history, and geography, and every school in America will ensure that all students learn to use their minds well, so they may be prepared for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment in our modern economy.

(B) The objectives for this goal are that—

(i) the academic performance of all students at the elementary and secondary level will increase significantly in every quartile, and the distribution of minority students in each level will more closely reflect the student population as a whole;

(ii) the percentage of all students who demonstrate the ability to reason, solve problems, apply knowledge, and write and communicate effectively will increase substantially;

(iii) all students will be involved in activities that promote and demonstrate good citizenship, community service, and personal responsibility; (iv) the percentage of all students who are competent in more than one language will substantially increase; and

(v) all students will be knowledgeable about the diverse cultural heritage of this Nation and about the world community.

(4) TEACHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. (A) By the year 2000, the Nation's teaching force will have access to programs for the continued improvement of their professional skills and the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to instruct and prepare all American students for the next century.

(B) The objectives of this goal are that—

(i) every State will establish opportunity-to-learn standards and create an integrated strategy to attract, recruit, prepare, retrain, and support the continued professional development of teachers, administrators, and other educators, so that there is a highly talented workforce of professional educators to teach challenging standards;

(ii) subgrants for preservice teacher education and professional development activity will be made to local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, private nonprofit organizations, or consortia of such organizations, to support continuing, sustained, professional development activities for all educators; and

(iii) partnerships shall be established, whenever possible, between local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, local labor, business, and professional associations to provide and support programs for the professional development of educators, particularly in the area of emerging new technologies in education.

(5) MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE.—(A) By the year 2000, United States students will be first in the world in mathematics and science achievement. (B) The objectives for this goal are that—

(i) math and science education will be strengthened throughout the system, especially in the early grades;

(ii) the number of teachers with a substantive background in mathematics and science will increase by 50 percent; and

(iii) the number of United States undergraduate and graduate students, especially women and minorities, who complete degrees in mathematics, science, and engineering will increase significantly.

(6) ADULT LITERACY AND LIFELONG LEARNING.-(A) By the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

(B) The objectives for this goal are that—

(i) every major American business will be involved in strengthening the connection between education and work;

(ii) all workers will have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills, from basic to highly technical, needed to adapt to emerging new tech

nologies, work methods, and markets through public and private educational, vocational, technical, workplace, or other programs;

(iii) the number of quality programs, including those at libraries, that are designed to serve more effectively the needs of the growing number of parttime and midcareer students will increase substantially;

(iv) the proportion of those qualified students, especially minorities, who enter college, who complete at least two years, and who complete their degree programs will increase substantially;

(v) the proportion of college graduates who demonstrate an advanced ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and solve problems will increase substantially; and

(vi) schools, in implementing comprehensive parent involvement programs, will offer more adult literacy, parent training and life-long learning opportunities to improve the ties between home and school, and enhance parents' work and home lives.

(7)(A) SAFE, DISCIPLINED, AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS.-By the year 2000, every school in America will be free of drugs and violence and will offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning.

(B) The objectives for this goal are that

(i) every school will implement a firm and fair policy on use, possession, and distribution of drugs and alcohol;

(ii) parents, businesses, and community organizations will work together to ensure the rights of students to study in a safe and secure environment that is free of drugs and crime;

(iii) every school district will develop a comprehensive K-12 drug and alcohol prevention education program. Drug and alcohol curricula should be taught as an integral part of health education. In addition, communitybased teams should be organized to provide all students and teachers with needed support; and

(iv) every school district will develop and implement a policy to ensure that all schools are free of weapons and violence.

TITLE II-NATIONAL EDUCATION REFORM, LEADERSHIP, STANDARDS, AND ASSESSMENTS

PART A-NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL

SEC. 201. PURPOSE.

It is the purpose of this part to establish a bipartisan mechanism for(1) building a national consensus for education improvement;

(2) reporting on progress toward achieving the National Education Goals; and (3) reviewing and commenting upon the voluntary national content and student performance standards and opportunity-to-learn standards certified by the National Education Standards and Improvement Council, as well as the criteria for their certification, and the criteria for the certification of State assessments by the National Education Standards and Improvement Council.

SEC. 202. NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-There is established in the executive branch a National Education Goals Panel (referred to in this Act as the "Goals Panel") to advise the President, the Secretary, and the Congress.

(b) COMPOSITION.-The Goals Panel shall be composed of eighteen members (referred to in this part as "members"), including

(1) two members appointed by the President;

(2) eight members who are Governors, three of whom shall be from the same political party as the President and five of whom shall be of the opposite political party of the President, appointed by the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the National Governors' Association, with each appointing representatives of his or her respective political party, in consultation with each other;

(3) four Members of Congress appointed as follows

(A) one member appointed by the majority leader of the Senate from among the Members of the Senate;

(B) one member appointed by the minority leader of the Senate from among the Members of the Senate;

(C) one member appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives from among the Members of the House of Representatives; and