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Require the military entrance test in all federally funded schools

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 4, p. 102. Written by Christopher Miller.

Require the military entrance test in all federally funded schools

The document says “should”Who acts: DOD, CongressHow: not specifiedp. 102 in the PDF
What the document says

“require completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 102

The chapter proposes improving recruiters' access to secondary schools and requiring all students in schools that receive federal funding to sit the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the military entrance examination. It names no instrument for imposing the requirement.

What the document actually says

“require completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 102
That sentence, in plain words

Make every student sit the test the armed forces use.

What this is about

The military has a test for people who want to join. The book says every student should take it. That would apply at any school that gets federal money.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates addresses the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery or recruiter access to schools. The nearest by subject, a Defense Department rule on nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs, eliminates disparate impact liability under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. It changes a civil rights standard for programs the department assists; it does not require any student to sit a test. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 102.
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    “Require the military entrance test in all federally funded schools,” Project 2025, chapter 4, p. 102. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch04-asvab-in-funded-schools/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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