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Service Academy Testing Enhancement Act of 2026

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5597 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5597

    To promote the use of standardized testing at military service 
                      academies and DoDEA schools.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2026

   Mr. Banks introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL

 
    To promote the use of standardized testing at military service 
                      academies and DoDEA schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Service Academy Testing Enhancement 
Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTING THE USE OF STANDARDIZED TESTING AT MILITARY SERVICE 
              ACADEMIES AND DODEA SCHOOLS.

    (a) Military Service Academies.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
ensure that each of the Service Academies (as that term is defined in 
section 347(d) of title 10, United States Code) may satisfy any 
standardized testing requirement through scores from any of not fewer 
than three nationally recognized standardized assessments that are 
designed to evaluate college readiness and that measure, at a minimum, 
mathematics, reading, grammar and writing, and analytical reasoning 
skills. Such assessments may also evaluate critical and logical 
reasoning, comprehension of literary, historical, or philosophical 
texts, and other indicators of postsecondary readiness as determined 
appropriate by the Secretary.
    (b) DoDEA Schools.--The Director of the Department of Defense 
Education Activity shall ensure that students enrolled in the eleventh 
grade are offered the opportunity to take not fewer than three 
standardized assessments described in subsection (a).
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