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20 U.S.C. § 7909 — Prohibition on federally sponsored testing
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**(a) General prohibition** Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law and except as provided in subsection (b), no funds provided under this chapter to the Secretary or to the recipient of any award may be used to develop, incentivize, pilot test, field test, implement, administer, or distribute any federally sponsored national test in reading, mathematics, or any other subject, unless specifically and explicitly authorized by law, including any assessment or testing materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative or any other academic standards common to a significant number of States.
**(b) Exceptions** Subsection (a) shall not apply to international comparative assessments developed under the authority of [section 9543(a)(6) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section9543/a/6&num=0&edition=prelim) and administered to only a representative sample of pupils in the United States and in foreign nations.
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**(a) General prohibition** Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law and except as provided in subsection (b), no funds provided under this chapter to the Secretary or to the recipient of any award may be used to develop, incentivize, pilot test, field test, implement, administer, or distribute any federally sponsored national test in reading, mathematics, or any other subject, unless specifically and explicitly authorized by law, including any assessment or testing materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative or any other academic standards common to a significant number of States.
**(b) Exceptions** Subsection (a) shall not apply to international comparative assessments developed under the authority of [section 9543(a)(6) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section9543/a/6&num=0&edition=prelim) and administered to only a representative sample of pupils in the United States and in foreign nations.
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**(a) Agreements** In any case in which a negotiated rulemaking process is established under [section 6571(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6571/b&num=0&edition=prelim), all published proposed regulations shall conform to agreements that result from the rulemaking described in [section 6571 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6571&num=0&edition=prelim) unless the Secretary reopens the negotiated rulemaking process.
**(b) Records** The Secretary shall ensure that an accurate and reliable record of agreements reached during the negotiations process is maintained.
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**(a) Amounts equal to or less than trigger amount** From amounts made available for each fiscal year under subsection 11 So in original. Probably should be “section”. 6302(b) of this title that are equal to or less than the amount described in [section 6311(b)(2)(I) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6311/b/2/I&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall—
(1) reserve one-half of 1 percent for the Bureau of Indian Education;
(2) reserve one-half of 1 percent for the outlying areas;
(3) reserve not more than 20 percent to carry out [section 6362 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6362&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(4) from the remainder, carry out [section 6361 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6361&num=0&edition=prelim) by allocating to each State an amount equal to—
(A) $3,000,000, except for a fiscal year for which the amounts available are insufficient to allocate such amount to each State, the Secretary shall ratably reduce such amount for each State; and
(B) with respect to any amounts remaining after the allocation under subparagraph (A), an amount that bears the same relationship to such total remaining amounts as the number of students aged 5 through 17 in the State (as determined by the Secretary on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data) bears to the total number of such students in all States.
**(b) Amounts above trigger amount** For any fiscal year for which the amount made available for a fiscal year under subsection 1 6302(b) of this title exceeds the amount described in [section 6311(b)(2)(I) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 7909
(2) Consent
(A) Opt-out process
A parent of a secondary school student
may submit a written request, to the local
educational
agency,
that
the
student’s
name, address, and telephone listing not be
released for purposes of paragraph (1) with-
out prior written consent of the parent.
Upon receiving such request, the local edu-
cational agency may not release the stu-
dent’s name, address, and telephone listing
for such purposes without the prior written
consent of the parent.
(B) Notification of opt-out process
Each local educational agency shall notify
the parents of the students served by the
agency of the option to make a request de-
scribed in subparagraph (A).
(3) Same access to students
Each local educational agency receiving as-
sistance under this chapter shall provide mili-
tary recruiters the same access to secondary
school students as is provided to institutions
of higher education or to prospective employ-
ers of those students.
(4) Rule of construction prohibiting opt-in
processes
Nothing in this subsection shall be con-
strued to allow a local educational agency to
withhold access to a student’s name, address,
and telephone listing from a military recruiter
or institution of higher education by imple-
menting an opt-in process or any other process
other than the written consent request process
under paragraph (2)(A).
(5) Parental consent
For purposes of this subsection, whenever a
student has attained 18 years of age, the per-
mission or consent required of and the rights
accorded to the parents of the student shall
only be required of and accorded to the stu-
dent.
(b) Notification
The Secretary, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Defense, shall, not later than 120 days
after Dece
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