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Mary Miller (R-IL)

Promoting Classical Learning Act of 2025

H.R. 5968 · House bill Armed Forces and National Security

A Republican bill with 11 Republican cosponsors · See all 11 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill is called the "Promoting Classical Learning Act of 2025." It requires military service academies to allow applicants to use scores from the Classic Learning Test (CLT), SAT, or ACT for admission. Additionally, it requires schools operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity to give the CLT to eleventh grade students. It also requires schools funded or operated by the Bureau of Indian Education to give the CLT to eleventh grade students.

Yes· 3 of 4

  • Scored +3

    Would people in their twenties and thirties be better off under this?

    Provides more options for those applying to military service academies.

  • Scored +2

    Does this make it easier to use public money at a school other than the local one?

    Provides an alternative testing option for service academy admissions.

  • Scored +1

    Does this give the federal government more power?

    Mandates specific testing requirements for federally-run schools.

The opposite

  • Scored -2

    Would children be better off under this?

    Imposes mandatory testing on eleventh grade students in specific school systems.

  • Scored -2

    Would Native Americans be better off under this?

    Requires students in Bureau of Indian Education schools to take an additional mandatory test.