108 STAT. 128 PUBLIC LAW 103-227—MAR. 31, 1994 Sec. 1052. Grants for midnight basketball league training and partnership programs. Sec. 1053. Public housing midnight basketball league programs. 20 USC 5801. 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 cohere'it, 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 and reliable mechanisms for— (A) building a broad national consensus on American education reform; (B) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality, internationaly competitive content and student performance standards; (C) assisting in the development and certification of opportunity-to-leam standards; and (D) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality assessment measures that reflect the internationaly competitive content and student performance stendards; (5) supporting new initiatives at the Federal, State, local, and school levels to provide equal educational opportunity for all students to meet high academic and occupational skill 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 hign-quality, internationaly competitive content and student performance standards and strategies that all students will be expected to achieve; (C) providing for the establishment of high-quality, internationaly competitive opportunity-to-leam 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 implementetion of reauthorized Federal education and related programs in an integrated fashion that effectively educates all children to prepare them to participate fully as workers, parents, and citizens; (E) providing resources to help individual schools, including those serving students with high needs, develop and implement comprenensive improvement plans; and (F) promoting the use of technology to enable all students to achieve the National Education Goals; (7) stimulating the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill stendards and certification to
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