have the opportunity to begin kindergarten ready to learn. (B) Investing in teachers and school leaders by elevating the standards and status of the teaching profession, including a performance-based career ladder and salaries comparable to other fields with similar education requirements. (C) Creating a world-class instructional system with an internationally benchmarked curriculum that enables most students to achieve college and career ready status by 10th grade and then pursue pathways that include early college, Advanced Placement courses, or a rigorous technical education leading to industry-recognized credentials and high paying jobs. (D) Providing supports to students that need it the most with broad and sustained support for schools serving high concentrations of poverty, with after school and summer academic programs and student access to needed health and social services. (E) Ensuring excellence for all through an accountability-oversight board that has the authority to ensure transformative education system recommendations are successfully implemented and produce the desired improvements in student achievement. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) no matter a child’s ZIP Code, they deserve equal access to a quality, public pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade education