Education Sciences Reform Act Of 2002
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The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 was an act passed by the Bush administration in November 2002. Among other motions, the act created the
Institute of Education Sciences The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the independent, non-partisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. IES' stated mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice ...
, a research arm of the
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. There are many formal names for the bill, which include: * Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 * National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act * Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 * Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 * Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 * National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act In 2011, a technical amendment was made to the bill to introduce the
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, which increased the debt ceiling of the US federal government.


Amendments


Proposed

On April 2, 2014, Rep.
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introduced the Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366; 113th Congress) into the
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. The bill would amend and reauthorize the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 and would authorize the appropriation of $615 million for fiscal year 2015 and $3.8 billion over the 2015-2019 period to support federal educational research, statistical analysis, and other activities.


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